The fighting in Ukraine rages on with no immediate prospect of peace
Meanwhile, Moscow is preparing for “Victory Day” on Monday. The annual event celebrates the Soviet Union’s defeat of Nazism in the Second World War.
We begin with this report from correspondent Sergio Olmos in Ukraine.
To discuss:
- Pavel Felgenhauer is a defense analyst and columnist for the independent Russian newspaper, Novaya Gazeta.
- Peter Zalmayev is director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative.
- Klaus Larres is a European affairs analyst and professor of history and international affairs at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
- Vladimir Golstein is chair of the Slavic Studies department, at Brown University.
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Civilians have been evacuated from the bombarded Azovstal steel plant, the last Ukrainian holdout in the ruined city of Mariupol.
In interviews with @AP, they described the two months spent living at the center of hell — and their escape. https://t.co/6L6rtQIsr4
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 6, 2022
Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine are stagnant, Alexey Zaitsev, deputy director of the information and press department at the Russian Foreign Ministry said:https://t.co/VfmgomTJFE pic.twitter.com/YJBs0Yi1Gw
— TASS (@tassagency_en) May 6, 2022
Russia faces total oil ban in one of its main markets as it keeps up attacks across Ukraine https://t.co/80YmuxxsAQ
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) May 4, 2022