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Ukraine Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said 264 fighters were evacuated from the plant, including 53 "heavily wounded."

"I received threats that they would come and find me, that I would be killed, that my child would be cut into pieces."

Putin's appearance and behavior are fuelling speculation about his health. Over the weekend, Ukrainian intelligence said he was badly ill.

Turkey, which joined the alliance in 1952, is a crucial player in NATO, boating the second-largest military in the 30-member group after the United States.

IRYNA BALACHUK - Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 10:41 The Security Service of Ukraine has published another intercepted conversation between Russian soldiers. In that conversation, the aggressors express their envy that Ukrainians have Bayraktars (medium-altitude long-range unmanned combat aerial vehicles), and they are terror-stricken at the prospect of the delivery of foreign weapons to the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Hundreds of Ukrainian fighters left the vast steel plant in Mariupol where they mounted a dogged last stand and turned themselves over to Russian hands.

Signs of Republican resistance are mounting over a $40 billion aid package to Ukraine.

Hundreds of fighters sheltering in Mariupol's Azovstal plant were evacuated to Russian-held territory after Kyiv struck a cease-fire agreement with Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the evacuation to separatist-controlled territory was done to save the lives of the fighters who endured weeks of Russian assaults.

It's unclear if the soldiers have been taken prisoner or are under the protection of the U.N., but a Ukrainian official says they would be able to return home after a prisoner exchange with Russia.

Analyst Mikhail Khodaryonok said "virtually the entire world is against us" and that Russian viewers should be aware of the situation in Ukraine.

Olha Hlushchenko - Tuesday, 17 May 2022, 02:51 The Ukrainian military have destroyed an aggressors' fuel and lubricants depot and have killed 29 invaders, as well as destroying an anti-aircraft missile system and other Russian military equipment in the south.

A roundup of key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia was expected to dominate the skies over Ukraine. But Ukrainians are still shooting down helicopters and planes, making Russian pilots very wary about venturing into Ukrainian airspace.

TwitterRussian President Vladimir Putin hosted a meeting of the Russian-led military alliance, the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), on Monday on the 30th anniversary of its founding—but the meeting was anything but celebratory.Instead, the heads of state from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan, which make up the collective defense organization, akin to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, went to the Kremlin Monday in Moscow to lament the world’s response

If the 1990 opening in Pushkin square was a symbol of hope, Monday’s exit announcement is confirmation that Russia is now not just uninvestible, but intolerable.

The McDonald's CEO acknowledged the tight relationship the fast-food giant has built in Russia over the last three decades.

University of Michigan student Russian saxophonist Valentin Kovalev performs 'The Great Gate of Kyiv' for a Ukraine Benefit Concert

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has met with Ukrainian refugees and urged the need to confront Russian brutality as she visited Poland ahead of a meeting of finance ministers for the Group of Seven leading economies.

Ukrainian singer and former Eurovision song contest winner appealed to Turkey’s president to save Ukrainian fighters from the besieged city of Mariupol.

A Michigan man who was being held captive by Russian forces on accusations of being a U.S. spy has been reunited with his family after a rescue mission that included an 18-hour race across Ukraine, officials said.

Russia will take control of French car manufacturer Renault’s operations in the country and resurrect a Soviet-era auto brand.

As Finland and Sweden's leaders seek the reassurance of NATO defense, CBS News tours a nuclear bunker in Helsinki – part of the legacy of Russia's last invasion.

In 1990, the Big Mac's arrival in Moscow signaled a new era. Now McDonald's is tearing down the golden arches and writing off its investment in Russia.

Moscow is scrambling to adjust to a new security picture in Europe brought about by its invasion of Ukraine, where fighting is ravaging the east.

A Russian writer describes the journey of those, like himself, who chose exile rather than remain as their country invaded Ukraine.

French carmaker Renault also announced plans to sell off assets worth billions to Russian government entities.

With Finland and Sweden both announcing their bids to join the Western military alliance NATO on Sunday, all eyes are on how Russia will react.

The European Union has slashed its forecasts for economic growth in the 27-nation bloc amid the prospect of a drawn-out Russian war in Ukraine and disruptions to energy supplies.

The fast food giant says the humanitarian crisis caused by the war is forcing its hand. It says it's trying to have the buyer keep its 62,000 workers.

The RAC says prices rose to just over £1.80 a litre after the previous record was set in March.

IRYNA BALACHUK - MONDAY, 16 MAY 2022, 13:28 The company commander of the Belarusian "Kastuś Kalinoŭski battalion [named after a Belarusian writer and revolutionary], Pavel "Volat", died in the war in Ukraine.

McDonald’s says it's started the process of selling its Russian business, which includes 850 restaurants that employ 62,000 people.

A glance behind Moscow's military failures

Ukraine has used postage stamps to boost wartime morale. One image stood out — and sold out. 'Just felt what we all felt,' young designer says.

Christopher Steele said his sources told him Putin is badly ill, which could be affecting his decision-making in Ukraine, per Sky News.

The European Union's efforts to impose new sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine appear to have bogged down.

Ukrainian troops are pushing Russian troops away from the country's second largest city. That is allowing residents to move out of subway stations and try to resume something of a normal life.

Despite their orientation toward the US and western Europe, Finland and Sweden since the Cold War have bet that their national security was best protected by staying out of NATO. They had aimed to avoid disturbing the military balance in the Baltic Sea region and provoking Russia. However, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its demands to stop NATO expansion have now pushed both countries to seek entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

Ukrainian officials say the regiment that doggedly defended a steel mill as Ukraine’s last stronghold in the port city of Mariupol has completed its mission.

With its military bogged down in a grinding conflict in eastern Ukraine, Russia also lost diplomatic ground over the weekend as two more European nations moved closer to joining NATO. Finland announced Sunday that it was seeking to join the alliance, saying Russia's invasion of Ukraine nearly three months ago had changed Europe’s security landscape.

Europe is desperately seeking alternative sources of gas after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The BBC's Sarah Rainsford investigates the killing of civilians in a summer camp in Bucha, Ukraine.

The online data detective team first gained prominence after its investigation of the Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 shootdown.

The data detectives at Bellingcat showed 60 Minutes how social media is providing evidence of alleged Russian war crimes and other atrocities.

Scott Pelley reports on the innovative group that's been exposing Vladimir Putin since 2014.

A benefit concert for Ukraine, musician Marion Hayden, the AAPI Story Series and the TeMaTe dance group, all on One Detroit Arts & Culture!

KATERYNA TYSHCHENKO - SUNDAY, 15 MAY 2022, 22:46 President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is convinced that the invading Russian forces in Ukraine are at a standstill and their "special operation" is bankrupt. Source: Presidential address Quote from Zelenskyy: "We are preparing for new Russian attempts to advance in Donbas, to somehow intensify their movement in southern Ukraine.

Kateryna Tyshchenko - Sunday, 15 May 2022, 22:15 On Sunday, in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions the Armed Forces of Ukraine repulsed 17 attacks and destroyed 18 units of Russian military equipment, including two helicopters.

A Polish Nobel Prize-winning author says that Russia presents a threat to the “free world” and its attack on neighboring Ukraine had echoes of the Second World War

“You have melted our hearts, friends,” Ukraine's government tweeted, after Kalush Orchestra won Eurovision 2022 with the song "Stefania."

For years, President Vladimir Putin of Russia has viewed the expansion of NATO as an existential threat that would leave Russia hemmed in with Western missiles on its doorstep. Now, Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine seems to be bringing the Russian leader’s nightmare to life, with NATO on the brink of starting its largest potential expansion in nearly two decades. After navigating the postwar era in nonalignment and neutrality, Sweden and Finland are now actively exploring ascension to the military a

Here are the five crucial tests Ukraine and its global partners and allies must tackle as Putin's criminal war approaches its most decisive phase.

An audio intercept published by Ukraine’s Operational Command South via Facebook on May 15 has shed some light on the circumstances of last month’s sinking of the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship, the Moskva.

'Voting is a duty,' says a Beirut citizen as she casts her ballot in the first election since multiple crises dragged Lebanon to the brink of failed statehood. The vote is a major test for new opposition groups bent on removing the ruling elite.

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Ukraine said it was holding off Russian offensives Sunday in the country's east.

The announcement came as NATO foreign ministers, including Secretary of State Antony Blinken, met in Berlin to discuss Ukraine, and Finland and Sweden’s path to membership.

The Finnish Parliament is expected to endorse the decision in coming days.

Finland changed its policy toward the military alliance after troops invaded Ukraine. Sweden has avoided all military alliances, but like Finland, has also grown closer and closer to NATO over time.

With Finland and Sweden taking steps to join NATO, the list of “neutral” countries in Europe appears poised to shrink.

The first trial resulting from special counsel John Durham’s investigation of the early days of the Trump-Russia probe hardly seems an explosive affair.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned his Finnish counterpart that relations between the two neighbors could be “negatively affected” if Finland follows through with plans to apply for NATO membership.

The Group of Seven leading economies have warned that the war in Ukraine is stoking a global food and energy crisis that threatens poor countries.

Ukraine says Russian forces are withdrawing from around Ukraine’s second-largest city after bombarding it for weeks.

Russia’s war in Ukraine is one of the biggest considerations in the U.S. Treasury’s latest strategy document outlining how the agency plans to combat significant illicit finance threats to the U.S. financial system.

After rebuffing U.S. requests for months, Russian Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu spoke with U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Friday.

Expectant mother Galina Kubiak says she misses home but has fallen in love with Romania, the neighboring country where she fled with her two small children to escape the war in Ukraine.

The lawyer for WNBA star Brittney Griner says her pre-trial detention in Russia has been extended by one month.

European gas prices have risen after Russian state-owned exporter Gazprom said it would no longer send supplies to Europe via a pipeline in Poland, citing new sanctions that Moscow imposed on European energy companies.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says his country is “not favorable” toward Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said although Ukrainians are doing everything they can to drive out the Russians, “no one today can predict how long this war will last.

A Russian soldier has gone on trial in Ukraine for the killing of an unarmed civilian.

As WNBA star and two-time Olympic gold medalist Brittney Griner approaches the three-month mark of her detention in Russia, she has no clear prospect of release.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine shows no signs of slowing down, Ukrainians across their country to to heal as the bury the dead and salvage what is left of villages, towns and cities that have been destroyed by Russians.

In the weeks after Russia invaded Ukraine, a protest movement was born in Poland urging people to boycott companies that have chosen to keep operating in Russia.

Finland’s leaders have come out in favor of applying to join NATO, and Sweden could do the same within days.

Poland’s ambassador in Moscow has been summoned to Russia’s Foreign Ministry two days after Russia’s ambassador to Poland was splattered with red paint thrown at him by protesters opposed to the war in Ukraine.

Final congressional approval of a $40 billion Ukraine aid bill seems certain within days.

Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina wants Russian and Belarusian players to say whether they oppose the war in her nation.

The shutdown of a gas pipeline through Russian-held territory in Ukraine is sending a new wave of energy jitters through Europe.

The wives of two Ukrainian soldiers defending the Mariupol steel mill have met with Pope Francis.

Britain has pledged to come to the aid of Sweden and Finland, including with military support, if the two Nordic nations came under attack under security deals Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed with his Swedish counterpart in Stockholm and the Finnish president in Helsinki.

Ukraine's top prosecutor says the country plans to hold its first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has urged authorities to take stronger action to prevent wildfires and increase coordiation between various official agencies in dealing with them.

The question of whether to join NATO is coming to a head this week in Finland and Sweden, where Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shattered the long-held belief that remaining outside the military alliance was the best way to avoid trouble with their giant neighbor.

Washington is seeking to portray a united front against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia pummeled the vital port of Odesa in an apparent effort to disrupt supply lines and Western weapons shipments.

Lithuania’s top diplomat says that removing Russian President Vladimir Putin and his inner circle from power is the only way to protect the West and its allies from future threats from Moscow, urging an even tougher stance than the U.S. and many NATO allies have been willing to pursue.

Protesters have thrown red paint on the Russian ambassador to Poland as he arrived at a cemetery in Warsaw to pay respects to Red Army soldiers who died during World War II.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to cast Moscow’s military action in Ukraine as a forced response to Western policies and a necessary move to ward off a potential aggression.

Russian President Vladimir Putin marked his country’s biggest patriotic holiday without a major new battlefield success in Ukraine, and the Kremlin made little to no progress as the war ground through its 11th week on multiple fronts.

Pale and drawn, the last civilians sheltering in the bunkers beneath the sprawling steel mill in the decimated Ukrainian port city of Mariupol arrived late Sunday night in Zaporizhzhia, the first major Ukrainian city beyond the frontline.

News organizations are using sophisticated new technologies to transform the way they conduct investigations.

The Russian holiday of Victory Day brings out patriotic displays of flags, military parades and marches by veterans' groups celebrating the country's triumph over Nazi Germany in 1945.

Dozens of Ukrainians are feared dead after a Russian bomb destroyed a school sheltering about 90 people in eastern Ukraine.

Russia has held a dress rehearsal for the military parade to commemorate Victory Day on May 9 when the country marks the defeat of Nazi Germany during World War II.

The war in Ukraine has wracked the country’s southern coast as Russian forces fire cruise missiles at the city of Odesa and bombard a steel mill in the port of Mariupol where Ukrainian civilians and fighters had sought safety.

The U.N. Security Council has unanimously adopted its first statement since Russia’s military action began on Feb. 24, expressing “strong support” for Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ efforts to find a peaceful solution to the “dispute” in Ukraine.

In lush fields southwest of Paris, farmers are joining Europe’s fight to free itself from Russian gas.