Evidence points to a more aggressive and concerted effort by Moscow to plan violent acts of sabotage with little apparent concern for civilian fatalities, intelligence officials told the FT on.ft.com/3y8o4dV

Germany summons Russian envoy over 2023 cyber-attacks theguardian.com/world/article/…

Europe’s elites are gripped by the same fatal complacency for which Marc Bloch condemned the French after their defeat by the Nazis in the 1940s, Emmanuel Macron tells The Economist in an exclusive interview econ.st/4a5duSf 👇

Is Russia using chemical weapons in Ukraine?

Hear more in the latest #Ukrainecast

A funeral of a fallen defender in Kyiv today.. people got out of cars and stood on their knees 💔🇺🇦

Thousands of flights have been affected - my latest for BBC News:

US says Russia used choking agents against Ukrainian troops, breaching chemical weapons ban | CNN cnn.com/2024/05/01/eur…

Russia’s use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian soldiers should be a much bigger international news story. My friend and colleague Jimmy Rushton has a sobering piece on this here: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

⚡️ The Education Ministry approved the projects of the first five underground schools in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Governor Ivan Fedorov announced on May 1.

kyivindependent.com/governor-first…

📹Ukraine’s prosecutor's office has released a video of yesterday's Russian missile strike on #Odesa .

It is stated that the city was hit by an Iskander ballistic missile with a cluster munition payload.

Five people were killed.

The GPS-jammer affecting aircrafts around Estonia is located in Russia, about halfway to St Petersburg from Narva, Estonia.

This is shown by plotting the highest density of intersecting radio horizons of jammed aircrafts on a map.

Further, a drone-based method supports it.🧵

Fascinating conversation with Ben Hodges: as former commander of US Army Europe he knows better than most how things work, and unlike many he argues that US troops should be deployed to Ukraine. Have a listen to #Ukrainecast with Victoria Derbyshire and me:

bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

UK prosecutors said on Friday that Dylan Earl, 20, and Jake Reeves, 22, had been charged with national security offences after a fire broke out at a warehouse in east London last month. Lorries carrying aid for Ukraine had been dispatched from the address.

The underlying thread in Emmanuel Macron’s latest speech was one of Europe’s fragility in a darker world. Read how his remarks were not only solemn but bordered on the apocalyptic: econ.st/3UwkS4w

Photo: Reuters

Here's what the US is sending to Ukraine in its new security package: defense.gov/News/Releases/…

Can US aid help Ukraine defeat Russia?

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Russia's meddling with the US presidential campaign has begun - and Microsoft looks at how:

blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/…