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He shares the view that Putin has initiated an illegal and heinous war against Ukraine. Yet he's quick to add that it is the West that has sinned with years of ignoring and not listening to Russia. Instead of arming the Ukrainians or imposing sanctions, which have negative effects on ordinary Russians, the West should even now continue to pursue diplomacy, he argues.

Russia's ambassador to Poland was flooded hit red paint.

This happened during a solemn ceremony marking Victory Day in the Polish capital, RIA Novosti reported.

At the time of the incident, Sergei Andreev was moving towards a memorial to Soviet soldiers with the idea of laying a wreath.

Almost 500 civilians have been evacuated from the battered city of Mariupol and its besieged Azovstal steel plant since a UN-led rescue operation began, the head of Ukraine's presidential office said on May 6. 

In early March, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki condemned Russian energy imports, saying it was not only gas "but also the blood of innocent people" that was pouring through Russian pipelines to the West.

The Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and the delegation that visited Kyiv arrived in Bucharest yesterday on a flight from Warsaw.

In the Romanian capital, the prime minister met with Romanian counterpart Nicolae Ciuca, President Klaus Iohannis and EU Transport Commissioner Adina Valean.

The talks focused on the war in Ukraine and gas supplies to Bulgaria and Romania.

Those earlier arguments, based on Prague's plan to play a major role in distributing gas from Russia's Nord Stream 2 pipeline, derailed the project to build the Stork II gas link between the two countries in 2020.

Poland and Bulgaria said Russian energy giant Gazprom's decision to halt natural gas supplies to them won't cause unbearable problems as they either have enough gas stored, or have alternatives to draw on.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki called Gazprom's move "a direct attack on Poland, revenge for the sanctions we imposed", in relation to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Polish President Andrzej Duda, together with his counterparts from the Baltic states, Gitanas Nauseda of Lithuania, Egils Levits of Latvia and Alar Karis of Estonia, visited Kyiv on Wednesday.

But if Morawiecki believed the sense of unity coursing through the EU might move Brussels to release 36 billion euros in frozen post-pandemic recovery cash, he was wrong.

A new wave of refugees, 10 billion euros in aid, more weapons for Ukraine: here are the highlights of the most important events related to Ukraine for the past day.

Third prisoner exchange