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    <text>British prime minister Andy Burnham confirms that the United Kingdom will continue to militarily support Ukraine after Russia warned the UK will face &quot;consequences&quot; for allowing Ukraine to use British-made drones to strike targets deep inside Russian territory. </text>
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    <text>Moscow Oblast governor Andrey Vorobyov and Tambov Oblast head Yevgeny Pervyshov say Ukrainian drone attacks killed seven workers and injure 49 others at Wildberries warehouses in Kotovsk and Elektrostal, Russia, while another strike ignites an oil facility. Ukraine says the warehouses support Russian drone production. </text>
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      <text>The United States House of Representatives passes legislation to provide aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on ​Russia. </text>
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    <text>The United States House of Representatives passes legislation to provide a new batch of aid to Ukraine and impose new sanctions on ​Russia. </text>
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    <text>Russian president Vladimir Putin says that a drone strike on a dormitory and school in Russian-occupied Luhansk Oblast has killed at least six people and injured dozens more, attributing the attack to Ukraine, but Ukraine's military describes the comments from Russia as manipulation, saying it hit a drone command unit in Starobilsk. </text>
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      <text> The European Parliament adopts a resolution supporting the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for crimes related to the war in Ukraine and calls for sanctions to remain until a peace agreement is fully implemented. [https:--euromaidanpress.com-2026-04-30-european-parliament-backs-establishment-of-a-special-tribunal-for-russia- (Euromaidan Press)]Legality of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine</text>
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    <text>The European Parliament adopts a resolution supporting the establishment of a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for crimes related to the war in Ukraine and calls for sanctions to remain until a peace agreement is fully implemented. </text>
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    <text>Russia's Federal Security Service says it has arrested a German woman and a Central Asian man in Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Krai, and seizes an improvised explosive device, alleging they planned an attack on a law enforcement facility on instructions from Ukraine. </text>
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      <text>The European Union imposes sanctions against 16 Iranian individuals and three entities for their role in suppressing protests earlier this year. </text>
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      <text>The European Union imposes sanctions against nine Russian individuals over their role in the atrocities committed during Russia's occupation of Bucha during the initial 2022 invasion of Ukraine. </text>
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      <text>The European Union imposes sanctions against 16 individuals and three entities for their role in suppressing protests earlier this year. </text>
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    <text>The European Union imposes sanctions against nine Russian individuals over their role in the mass murder of civilians committed during Russia's occupation of Bucha during the initial 2022 invasion of Ukraine. </text>
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    <text>On the anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, millions of people in the United States and Europe express solidarity with the people of Ukraine. </text>
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    <text>At least three people are killed and more than 30 people are injured in a Russian drone and missile attack on critical infrastructure and residential buildings across Ukraine. </text>
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      <text>Ukraine strikes targets at the Russian regions of Bryansk and Saratov as well as the Republic of Tatarstan with more than 200 drones and five ATACMS ballistic missiles, damaging at least one factory and a refinery. </text>
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    <text>Ukraine strikes targets in the Republic of Tatarstan and Bryansk, Saratov, and Tula oblasts, Russia, with more than 200 drones and five ATACMS ballistic missiles, hitting ammunition depots, industrial plants and a refinery, in what Ukraine says is its &quot;most massive&quot; and &quot;deepest&quot; attack inside Russia so far. </text>
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  <text>European Union ambassadors agree in principle to remove Russian oligarchs Mikhail Fridman and Alisher Usmanov from sanctions imposed over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, while renewing restrictions on about 3,000 other Russian-linked individuals and entities for three years. However Latvia later blocks the deal. </text>
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