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Pope Francis has declared that he is ready to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. He made the declaration in an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, published today. He admitted that he is still waiting for Putin's response and fears that he does not want the meeting now.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will announce the transfer of another £300m worth of military equipment to Ukraine in a speech to parliament today, his office announced last night.more

The mobile phones of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Defence Minister Margarita Robles were infected with Pegasus spyware, government representative Felix Bolanos announced in Madrid yesterday.more

For Vladimir Putin, the war is beneficial because it distracts Russians from the country's problems and the unimaginable sums of money their leader has stolen from his own people, so he won't back down, according to Bill Browder, an outcast Russian investor who has been a vociferous critic of the Russian president for years.more

Berlin Mayor Franziska Giffey was first whistled at and then attacked with eggs at yesterday's May Day rally of the German Trade Union Federation (DGB).more

Yesterday, on the second day of the visit to Ireland, the delegation of the Senate of the Republic of Poland headed by the Marshal of the Senate, prof. Tomasz Grodzki met her compatriots living in this country to celebrate the Day of the Polish Diaspora and Poles Abroad.more

Neil Parish has told the BBC he is resigning as an MP after admitting he watched pornography twice in Parliament. Mr Parish, who has represented Tiverton and Honiton in Devon since 2010, said it had been a "moment of madness".more

The files concerning the establishment of a climate foundation in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, which was to protect the interests of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, have disappeared without a trace and cannot be reached, the "Welt" daily reported yesterday. more

An MP under investigation for allegedly watching pornography in the House of Commons has claimed he may have opened it on his phone by mistake. An inquiry has been launched after Neil Parish referred himself for investigation.more

Tony Parker, the four-time NBA league champion, has a chance to become sports minister in the French government, media on the Seine have reported, including the sports daily "L'Equipe". The nearly 40-year-old former basketball player is one of several candidates.more

Britain will send around 8,000 troops to Eastern Europe in the summer for military exercises in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the British Ministry of Defence said, Ukrainska Pravda writes today.more

Poland, by its resolute attitude in response to the Russian invasion, embarrassed the European powers, Germany and France, which in this situation showed weakness, and it was she who became a leader - reports the columnist of this newspaper Con Coughlin in the Daily Telegraph.more

The focus on the offensive in Donbass does not mean that Russia has abandoned its ambitions to seize all Ukrainian territory, they have only been temporarily suspended, according to Keir Giles, an analyst at the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House) in London.more

Britain and other Western countries should provide Ukraine with combat planes as part of long-term military support, said British Foreign Minister Liz Truss yesterday evening.more

The European Union "is not afraid of Russia", the President of the European Parliament, Robert Metsol, told the Italian daily Il Messaggero.more

Members of the House of Commons who have been sanctioned by the Russian Foreign Office for "fuelling Russophobic hysteria" should see this as a distinction, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said today.more

Federal Economy Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) announces that Germany will end its import of Russian oil in the near future. His plans accelerated after yesterday's meeting with representatives of the Polish government, writes "Welt" today.more

Employees of the US diplomatic mission in Ukraine, who moved to Poland because of Russia's invasion, went to Lviv yesterday, the US State Department reported. It stressed that this is the beginning of the return of US diplomats to Ukraine. At the same time, the support of the American public for armed assistance to Ukraine is growing.more

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said yesterday that he did not expect Russian President Vladimir Putin to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine if he suffered further military defeats in the country.more

Gazprom today from 8:00 a.m. Polish time completely stopped gas deliveries to Poland under the Yamal contract. The Russian company said the reason was the rejection by the Polish Oil and Gas Company (PGNiG) of gas payments in roubles. Poland is prepared for this. All customers in the country will receive the raw material at the current level - assures the government.more

The British government considers it justified that the weapons transferred to Ukraine by Western countries should be used for legal attacks on military targets on Russian territory, said Deputy Defense Minister James Heappey.more

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres met today in Moscow with Russian President Vladimir Putin as part of an effort to end the war in Ukraine. The united nations are ready to fully mobilize their resources to save lives in the besieged Mariupol on the Sea of Azov, he said.more

The British government announced yesterday night that it has lifted tariffs and quantitative quotas on all goods from Ukraine, and has banned the export of products and technology to Russia that can be used to intercept and monitor communications.more

Russia's claims that the West could provoke a wider conflict by supplying weapons to Ukraine are "utter nonsense," said British Deputy Defense Minister James Heappey.more

The war in Ukraine dispelled all illusions in the German political and business elite, which turned out to be arrogant, incompetent and corrupt, says Daniel Johnson, columnist and former German correspondent of this newspaper in the British Daily Telegraph.more