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Russian forces pushed the Ukrainian army out of the center, destroying all bridges to the city.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Sweden has taken important steps to meet Turkey's demands for Stockholm membership in the Alliance.

Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya left a meeting of the World Security Council meeting on Ukraine over a statement by European Council President Charles Michel, who accused Russia of causing a global food crisis with its invasion of the neighboring country.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Russia has criticized the United States for sending artillery systems to Ukraine

Russia has condemned US plans to send more modern artillery systems to Ukraine and accused Washington of "adding fuel to the fire".

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

The Russians took "most" of a key eastern city

Russian forces are taking control of most of the eastern Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk, the regional governor said.

This was Economist correspondent Tim Judah's gruelling eye-witness description of the streets of Bucha, Ukraine, after Russian forces left.

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. 

"Russia has broken the promised truce at the Mariupol steel plant, where Ukrainian forces are providing dire support to the city," a Ukrainian commander said, begging for help for his "dying" soldiers and the evacuation of civilians.

Berlin – President Borut Pahor argued in an interview for Der Spiegel in favour of continued arms supplies to Ukraine and warned of the unpredictability of Vladmir Putin, saying it could lead to a nuclear conflict. He warned against underestimating the Russian military and noted the risk of the conflict spreading to Moldova, Georgia and the Western Balkans.

Ukrainian defenders of a steel plant in Mariupol say Russian forces have started to storm the last pocket of resistance.

The move comes almost two weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military not to storm the plant, but rather block it off.

The ruble will be introduced in the Russian-controlled Kherson region of Ukraine on May 1, a spokesman for the region's pro-Russian military-civil administration said.