Volodymyr Zelensky takes a new step towards NATO. The Ukrainian president made a surprise visit to Finland on Wednesday May 3 to take part in a meeting of Nordic prime ministers, the Finnish presidency announced. On the sidelines of the summit, Volodymyr Zelensky meets his Finnish counterpart, Sauli Niinistö, whose country recently joined NATO, to discuss “the fight for the defense of Ukraine”. Follow our live.
A new sign of the imminence of the Ukrainian counter-offensive? Local authorities on Wednesday announced a curfew in Kherson, near the front line in the south, from Friday evening for 58 hours.
Ukrainian “terrorist” network arrested in annexed Crimea. The Russian security services (FSB) announced on Wednesday that they had dismantled a Ukrainian network “terrorist” in the annexed Crimea, against a background of increasing attacks and acts of “sabotage”, days before the important May 9 military celebrations in Russia.
A burning fuel depot near Crimea. The facts took place in the Russian village of Volna, announced on Telegram the governor of Krasnodar Krai, Veniamine Kondratiev. “According to preliminary information, there are no deaths or injuries” and there is no “no threat to residents” of the village, he added. “Everything possible is being done so that the fire does not spread any further.”
Zelensky says he was not notified of the leaked US documents. The Ukrainian president said in an interview published Tuesday by the Washington Posthaving learned in the press, and not from Washington, of the existence of a leak of confidential American documents concerning the war of his country against Russia.
