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Read our Privacy notice Russian attacks on Ukraine’s infrastructure continued as a UK Government minister said the signs were “not encouraging” for a peace deal In a call on Tuesday Russian leader Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump agreed to a limited ceasefire on energy and infrastructure targets But Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky said drone strikes had continued including a direct hit on a hospital in Sumy At a press conference in Helsinki on Wednesday Mr Zelensky said: “Putin’s words are very different from reality.” Mr Zelensky said he would speak to Mr Trump later on Wednesday to “discuss the details of the next steps with him” The White House account of the call between Mr Trump and Mr Putin said “the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire” But the Kremlin’s statement following the talks said the proposal covered only the more limited category of “energy infrastructure” – meaning other civilian targets were still at risk Mr Putin also put forward a series of conditions in response to the US-Ukraine proposal for a 30-day truce and called for a “complete cessation” of military aid and intelligence support to Kyiv Mr Trump told Fox News: “We didn’t talk about aid at all.” UK Government minister Sir Stephen Timms said he welcomed the “rather limited move” Russia had made by committing not to attack Ukrainian energy infrastructure But in response to reports of air attacks overnight he said: “I’m hoping they haven’t been attacks on the energy infrastructure “What we need is the full ceasefire that the US and Ukraine have agreed to The Prime Minister spoke to President Zelensky last night he told LBC Radio: “It’s not encouraging beyond this rather limited move that Russia has made “Let’s hope that Russia can be prevailed on to deliver the full ceasefire that the US and Ukraine are asking for.” Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Mr Zelensky on Tuesday night after the call between the Russian and US presidents. A Downing Street spokeswoman said: “The Prime Minister spoke to President Zelensky this evening. “They discussed progress President Trump had made towards a ceasefire in talks with Russia. “President Zelensky updated on the situation on the front line and the Prime Minister reiterated (the) UK’s unwavering support.” No 10 had earlier welcomed “the progress President Trump has made towards a ceasefire”. The spokeswoman added: “This process must lead to a just and lasting peace for Ukraine. “We will stand with Ukraine for as long as it takes to ensure Russia can never launch an illegal invasion again.” Attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid have been a feature of Moscow’s invasion campaign, with Russian forces repeatedly targeting power plants and other infrastructure. Ukraine has responded with attacks on Russian oil infrastructure. According to the White House, Mr Trump and Mr Putin agreed in their call “that the movement to peace will begin with an energy and infrastructure ceasefire, as well as technical negotiations on implementation of a maritime ceasefire in the Black Sea, full ceasefire and permanent peace. “These negotiations will begin immediately in the Middle East.” About 800 million euros ($905 million) will be allocated for the acquisition and installation of anti-tank mines to deter potential aggression  (Updated:  May 6, 2025 9:37 am)Ukraine's drones target Moscow second night in a row, Russian official claims, ahead of Victory Day parade. Debris from one of the drones reportedly fell on the Kashirskoye Highway The reported attack comes just days before Russia's Victory Day parade and three-day "truce."  (Updated:  May 6, 2025 9:36 am)War analysisFrance is sending Ukraine more AASM Hammer bombs — here's what they can do Polish President Andrzej Duda said the United States has tools that can effectively influence the Kremlin arguing that only President Donald Trump has real leverage over Russian President Vladimir Putin The number includes 1,430 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement" by Benjamin Nathans which covers dissent in the Soviet Union and Russia today Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on May 5 announced they had facilitated Russian journalist Ekaterina Barabash's escape from Russia to France after she fled house arrest on April 21 A Russian drone attack on Odesa Oblast on May 5 killed one and caused damage to local infrastructure "We appreciate that Germany plays a pivotal role in supporting Ukraine throughout the years of war Ukraine is also grateful for your personal commitment," President Volodymyr Zelensky said MPs will be able to ask questions and learn more about the details of the agreement in meetings with Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko May 6-7 MP Serhii Sobolev told the news outlet Suspilne The ratification vote is scheduled for May 8 Attacks against the border villages of Bilopillia and Vorozhba damaged civilian infrastructure and triggered emergency evacuations the regional military administration reported "I look forward to working with President Erdogan on getting the ridiculous war between Russia and Ukraine ended — now!" U.S Putin's Victory Day truce "doesn't sound like much if you know where we started from," Trump told reporters at the White House on May 5 by Olena GoncharovaRussia struck Ukraine's northeastern Sumy Oblast late on March 18 (Volodymyr Zelensky / Telegram) A hospital in Ukraine's northeastern city of Sumy and another in the town of Krasnopillia were hit by drones during a series of attacks on Ukraine prompting President Volodymyr Zelensky to accuse Vladimir Putin of de facto rejecting a ceasefire No casualties were reported following the Sumy Oblast strikes at the time of publication First responders have been dispatched to the sites of the attacks This came after a call between U.S. President Donald Trump and the Russian president in which Putin had agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure The Kremlin had announced that Putin had given immediate orders to cease such attacks Zelensky confirmed the strikes targeted civilian infrastructure Local reports indicated that power infrastructure in Donetsk Oblast's Slovyansk was damaged over 40 Russian drones were launched in the assault "It is precisely such night attacks by Russia that destroy our energy systems And the fact that this night was no exception shows that pressure must continue on Russia for the sake of peace," he said Putin de facto rejected the proposal for a complete ceasefire It would be right for the world to reject in response any attempts by Putin to drag out the war,” the president said Olena Goncharova is the Head of North America desk at The Kyiv Independent where she has previously worked as a development manager and Canadian correspondent Ukraine's oldest English-language newspaper as a staff writer in January 2012 and became the newspaper’s Canadian correspondent in June 2018 Olena has a master’s degree in publishing and editing from the Institute of Journalism in Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv Olena was a 2016 Alfred Friendly Press Partners fellow who worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette for six months The program is administered by the University of Missouri School of Journalism in Columbia According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the National Police Law enforcement officers opened criminal proceedings over the violation of the laws and customs of war (Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine) As Ukrinform previously reported, the security situation in Sumy region is getting worse. 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Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page According to Ukrinform, this was reported by the National Police of Ukraine "The latest strikes with glide bombs claimed the lives of two residents of Krasnopillia – a 69-year-old woman and a man whose identity is being established A police investigative team is working at the scene," the statement reads A criminal investigation has been launched under Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (war crimes) Police are urging residents of frontline settlements to follow safety measures and avoid danger until the threat is eliminated rescuers discovered a body while clearing the rubble caused by the Russian strike All fires resulting from the attack have been extinguished Russian forces have launched another attack on Krasnopillia this time destroying the local house of culture The Rescuers of the Sumy region reported on Telegram that the attack occurred on April 1 causing significant damage to the building and sparking a fire State Emergency Service (SES) units promptly arrived at the scene and successfully extinguished the flames preliminary reports indicate that no one was injured the Sumy Police shared a photo of the destroyed house of culture Ukrinform previously reported that the administration of the Krasnopillia village council has resumed operations in the regional center approximately 150 residents remain in the village of Krasnopillia All children from the village and the surrounding community have already been evacuated and no shops are currently open in the area The Sumy Regional Military Administration (RMA) reported the evacuation order on Facebook "A mandatory evacuation is announced from the settlements of Osoivka and Lozove in Krasnopillia territorial community," the statement reads Authorities are urging residents to relocate to safer areas as the region continues to face intensified Russian attacks the Sumy Regional Defense Council ordered the mandatory evacuation of 543 people from eight villages in Yunakivka and Myropillia communities due to increased enemy activity The SES reported this on Facebook Russian aircraft damaged a fire and rescue unit in the Krasnopillia community,” the SES wrote the rescuers were in a shelter at the time of the attack a fire and rescue unit in the Donetsk region was also damaged during a Russian attack on the town of Bilozerske Sumy Regional Military Administration announced this on Facebook the enemy strike damaged an apartment block and six private houses the Russians also attacked the Krasnopillia community with FPV drones and dropped fragmentation munitions on it from a drone the invaders carried out 57 strikes on the border area of the Sumy region and caused 129 explosions the enemy attacked the communities of Sumy unguided air missiles and ballistic missiles That’s according to the National Police of Ukraine It is noted that the police officers conducted the rescue operation under Russia’s drone attacks The “White Angels” also 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The attack resulted in casualties, a large-scale fire, and significant damage to residential buildings, reports the Main Directorate of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine in the Sumy region on Facebook Emergency services clarified that on the afternoon of March 21 Russian aviation struck the central part of a settlement in the Krasnopillia community causing significant destruction and damage to administrative buildings and private homes All fire outbreaks have been extinguished," the State Emergency Service (SES) reported During the clearing of the collapsed structures emergency workers recovered the body of a person from the rubble Rescue services released photos and videos showing the aftermath of the enemy airstrikes on a settlement in the Krasnopillia community on March 21 The State Emergency Service added that the final information on the number of dead and injured citizens is still being clarified As clarified by the Sumy Regional Military Administration on Friday evening two people were killed and two others were injured in the Krasnopillia community due to Russian airstrikes Sumy region has been under constant Russian attacks with border settlements frequently targeted According to the Sumy Regional Military Administration Russia carried out 103 attacks on border areas and settlements dropped an explosive device from a UAV (one explosion) carried out artillery shelling (10 explosions) and launched guided aerial bombs (33 explosions) On March 20, two people were killed in Krasnopillia due to Russian guided aerial bomb strikes. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The action you just performed triggered the security solution. There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. The inhabitants of Krasnopillia have been living under continuous Russian artillery fire from across the border, just 15 km away, since April 2022. Devastation in Krasnopilla. Photo: Kateryna Pryshchepa During the Soviet period Krasnopillia became the centre of the Krasnopillia district – a subregional administrative unit in the Sumy region. Its status changed in 2021 when, as the result of decentralisation, most smaller districts in Ukraine were merged into larger units. Krasnopillia became the administrative centre of a newly created municipality which includes the town itself as well as 42 surrounding villages in the area. The decentralisation reform was initiated very soon after the Maidan revolution brought in a new pro-European government and partly in a response to the new attempts of the regional elites to pressure the central authorities demanding more powers for themselves in exchange for them not siding with Russia. Some of the villages in the Krasnopillia municipality have only two or three dozen residents. Before the full-scale Russian invasion in February 2022 the municipality’s population was 16 thousand people scattered over 555 square kilometres. At present the most important employers in the area are the forestry and farms specialising in producing corn and sunflower seeds. Krasnopillia has also its own home-grown celebrities. The town is known for its Nordic skiing school. The school has trained several top Ukrainian athletes including Olympic biathlon champions Valja and Vita Semerenko, whose family still lives in the town. The municipality’s Facebook profile cover photo collage proudly features the twin sisters wearing the uniform of the national Olympic team right at its centre. Local official Iryna Yukhta. Photo: Kateryna Pryshchepa He also tells a local anecdote about Russian logistics. Apparently, on the third or fourth day of the invasion Russian soldiers came to the Mezenivka village shop, attached a rope to the shop’s door and pulled it off with an armoured vehicle, after which they took all the food inside. It would seem that they came to Ukraine with no food provisions of their own and were already hungry in a day or so. Having remained intact during the occupation, the farm machinery is now stationed on the ground at a distance of only 2 kilometres from the Russian border. The farm risks millions in losses from the Russian shelling every day, but Tymoshenko says they cannot keep the machines anywhere else for the moment as they are being used in the fields every day. The farm’s biggest Russian induced losses from one attack so far came in mid-August. On that day the Russians shelled the farm for three hours using different types of munition and as a result completely destroyed one farm warehouse and damaged two others. The destroyed warehouse caught fire as the result of the explosions, destroying 300 tons of lucerne hay. Farmer Viacheslav Tymoshenko. Photo: Kateryna Pryshchepa “We don’t have any military targets on the farm, so the only reason for them to do that was to spread panic and maybe conduct artillery training using real-life targets” Tymoshenko says. Miraculously the second warehouse did not catch fire as a result of the shelling and thus its stock of hay has survived. However, due to the damages to the warehouse roof, part of the hay has lost its premium class quality. Being exposed to the sunlight, the outer bales of hay become pale and yellowish in colour instead of green. This hay will not be accepted by Middle Eastern customers, says Tymoshenko. It will be sold within Ukraine for significantly less. Transporting the hay by railway has required some additional training for the farm’s personnel. A bale of hay is 75 centimetres and the railway containers are 235 centimetres wide. Three bales can thus be placed in the container side by side. However, the extra margin is only 10 centimetres wide and space is precious. So, the operator working the forklift needs to be very precise in their work. On my visit to Krasnopillia I am accompanied by Oleksandr Motsny, editor-in-chief of the local newspaper Peremoha (Victory). The paper was officially founded on 23 February 1932 and the staff had been preparing to celebrate its 90th anniversary on Saturday, 26 February 2022. To mark our meeting Motsny presents me with a Peremoha anniversary mug. The souvenir was supposed to be given away at the celebrations which have now been postponed until after the war. The newspaper concentrates on very local news and its principal source of income is subscription fees of 400 UAH (10 USD) annually per subscriber. The newspaper is printed in Vinnytsia, a city over six hundred kilometres from Krasnopillia, and delivered to the town weekly. The cost of printing and delivering one issue of eight pages is 4000 UAH – about 100 USD. The war and its accompanying exodus of locals and reduction of incomes on the ground have decreased the number of newspaper subscribers by half to 1,500 people. Motsny states that the most loyal readers are the local people who have been subscribers since the 1970s or 1980s. Of course, the cost of running the newspaper has gone up this year as paper and transportation costs have gone up. Peremoha newspaper. Photo: Kateryna Pryshchepa The first issue of Peremoha after the Russian retreat from the area was published on 22 April. Instead of 12 pages with some in colour the issue only had 4 pages in black and white. The majority of the content discussed the experience of the occupation and commemorated the locals killed in action on different fronts of the war. Since it became independent, Peremoha has had to move out of its previous premises and is now renting two rooms in the offices of a local agricultural firm. Motsny says the newspaper was not published for two months in 2022 – during the Russian occupation and for some time after that. “We restarted publication as soon as the postal service resumed operation”. A stray-looking cat is sleeping on one of the chairs in the newspaper’s office. The cat’s name is Senia and he is the newspaper’s mascot. Senia has his own mind, Motsny says — he went away for some weeks in the summer and returned to the office only recently, evidently having decided that with winter approaching it was time to come back inside. Motsny, who is the only male among his colleagues, says he takes it upon himself to visit villages across the municipality if there are some events to be covered by the press, as the situation on the ground is still unsafe. Not only Russian shelling poses a threat. On August 19 a local council member and farm owner Ivan Deyneka was killed when the truck he was driving ran over a land mine on the roadside close to Slavhorod. The mine itself could have been sitting in that spot unnoticed from the time the Russians were occupying the area or it could have been planted there by a subversive group after the Russian retreat. Motsny says most of the programs supporting the Ukrainian press are dedicated to helping displaced journalists. For those staying in the war-affected areas there seems to be not much help available. Having sent several applications to the National Media Trade Union of Ukraine, Peremoha finally got one flak jacket and one helmet in October. The trade union itself has received protective equipment from international organisations including UNESCO. Slavhorod, like Krasnopillia, is one of the former Cossack forts in the area. Now its population is under seven hundred residents. Located right on the border with Russia, the village spent just over a month in the spring of 2022 under Russian occupation and has faced constant shelling and regular attacks from across the border ever since the Russian troops withdrew. Locals enjoy good relations with the Ukrainian military Having spent over a month under occupation and having since been targeted by regular shelling from across the border, the locals in Krasnopillia are very grateful to the army stationed in the municipality and try to be helpful. “When the Ukrainian army arrived in the village I felt such relief, because I understood that no one [from the enemy side] will enter the village anymore. Of course, we cannot be sure that subversive groups from the Russian side will not try to cross the border, but we know that the army will protect the village” says Kononenko. The locals are vigilant and try to be in constant communication with the army. On the second day in the community, when I am not longer accompanied by local officials, vigilant locals report me to the army patrol. The soldiers arrived and checked my credentials, scrolled through photos on my camera and called the police to check my background. After a check in the local police station I was free to go having learned my lesson. Living alongside the military has had even more positive outcomes. Oleksandr Motsny, editor-in-chief of Peremoha, laughs and tells me that after Ukrainian army units moved into the community “even older ladies began dyeing their hair and paying attention to their looks”. Motsny and his colleagues at Peremoha expect things to get better when the war is over. Inna Kononenko believes most people will come back. Living in one’s own home is the best thing people can have she believes. Tymoshenko thinks a lot will depend on the situation with civilian infrastructure. The trouble with the electricity cuts in rural areas such as Krasnopillia is access to remote villages. If electricity supplies are cut in the middle of winter, conditions here will be very hard. At present most of the villages in the community seem almost deserted. Up to one third of the community members have moved either to Western Ukraine or abroad. Kononenko tells me that some village residents have gone as far as Ireland. Due to the proximity to the border with Russia and the constant shelling, schooling can only be done online. Kononenko says most of the 517 students the Slavhorod school had before the invasion are now attending classes from far away – the west of Ukraine or other European countries. All the locals in Krasnopillia area are sure of one thing. It will be decades before they can have any sort of relations with people on the Russian side of the border. The locals call the Russian troops “orcs” as in many places in Ukraine, or alternatively Nimtsi (literally Germans) — a reference to WWII, when the word for Germans became synonymous with the occupying army. Kateryna Pryshchepa is a Ukrainian journalist and a frequent contributor to New Eastern Europe. This article is published in the framework of the “Bohdan Osadchuk Media Platform for Journalists from Ukraine” co-financed by the Polish-American Freedom Foundation as part of the "Support Ukraine” Program implemented by the Education for Democracy Foundation and the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation.  Texts published as part of this project are available free of charge under open access Creative Commons license. Republishing is allowed under the CC license, however requires attribution and crediting the author and source.  The consequences of Russia’s invasion are visible not only in Ukraine. The Kremlin has set off or exploited a series of crises that face most European countries. New thinking is needed in policies towards Russia, in whatever form it will take after the war. Ukraine’s suffering goes well beyond the front line. With Russia’s invasion of Ukraine we now see our western values under siege, whether we consciously recognise it or not. The invasion by Russian forces of Ukraine from the north, south and east – with the initial aim to take the capital Kyiv – has changed our region, and indeed our world, forever. The situation with Russian threats towards Ukraine once again illustrates the high level of instability in our region. Only a year ago we witnessed the second Nagorno-Karabakh war between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It took at least 5,000 lives and significantly shifted the geopolitics in the South Caucuses. This special issue aims to honour the plight of Belarusians whose democratic choice made in August 2020 was shamelessly snubbed by Alyaksandr Lukashenka. From the social, economic and political points of view, a lot of work still remains for this country. And this is why Ukraine’s story is incomplete. 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union Our societies are more polarised than ever before, which makes them more susceptible to disinformation, untruth and conspiracy theories. 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But that’s not their biggest problem in these icy badlands You don't have permission to access the page you requested What is this page?The website you are visiting is protected.For security reasons this page cannot be displayed citing the Sumy Regional Military Administration (RMA) a missile strike was launched from the territory of the Russian Federation on the Krasnopil community," the RMA specified the preliminary data indicates that the enemy attack resulted in the deaths of two people and injured three others A cultural center and administrative buildings were damaged in the attack All necessary services are working at the scene The full extent of the damage from the enemy shelling is still being assessed The Russian occupiers attacked the Sumy region on May 29 the RMA reported that during the night and morning the Russians carried out two shelling attacks hitting Konotop and the Shalyhyne community Ukraine's air defense systems shot down a Russian missile.