Wagner Group says ‘fierce’ fighting continues in Bakhmout
The head of the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said on Monday that “fierce” fighting was continuing in Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, indicating that his troops were receiving more ammunition after threatening to withdraw.
Yevgeni Prigojine, in open conflict for months with the Russian military hierarchy, had promised Friday to withdraw his fighters, on the front line in this Ukrainian city that Russian forces have been attacking since last August, if they did not receive more ammunition from the from the army.
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The Pulitzer Prizes reward the American press for its coverage of Ukraine
The newspaper New York Times and the Associated Press news agency were honored on Monday for their work on the war in Ukraine with the Pulitzer Prizes, the most prestigious awards in the American press.
One of the most important media in the world, the New York Times, and its reporters won the Pulitzer for “international reporting” for their “unwavering coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including an eight-month investigation into the Ukrainian deaths in Boutcha and the Russian unit responsible for them.” killings,” Pulitzer administrator Marjorie Miller said in a video message.
As for the American news agency AP, it won the “public service” prize for a “courageous” report on the siege of the Ukrainian city of Mariupol.
Russian and Soviet flags banned in Berlin on Tuesday
Russian and Soviet flags will be banned from outside the Soviet Memorial in Tiergarten in central Berlin on Tuesday, the German capital’s Higher Administrative Court confirmed on Monday.
The higher court thus overturned a decision of the administrative court annulling a ban on these flags on the occasion of the commemoration of the German capitulation on May 8 and 9.
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Explosions heard in kyiv tonight, hours before Putin’s May 9 speech
Several explosions were heard overnight in kyiv on Tuesday, report the kyiv Independent media and the Ukrainian news agency TSN, a few hours before a long-awaited speech by Vladimir Putin in Moscow for May 9.
An alert, inviting the inhabitants of the city to take shelter, was issued by the authorities on Telegram at 4 a.m. (3 a.m. Paris time), specifying a few tens of minutes later that “the air defense is working.”
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