May 3, 2022 German opposition leader visits Kyiv, Scholz refuses to go Germany's opposition leader traveled to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy along with other top Ukrainian officials.
May 3, 2022 Western Ukraine city Lviv hit with explosions, power outages Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi, in his Telegram page Tuesday, says "explosions were heard in Lviv" and is urging residents to stay in shelters.
May 3, 2022 Russia unleashes this next step in crackdown on Ukraine region Russian authorities aiming to tighten their grip on a region it controls in Ukraine now appear to be routing internet access there through their own digital infrastructure, where it will “likely” be subject to Moscow’s “surveillance and censorship,” a global internet monitor says.
May 3, 2022 NASA chief says Russia not ending space station partnership NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said Tuesday that the Russian space agency is not pulling out of the International Space Station (ISS).
May 3, 2022 Russia-linked Wagner group accused of atrocities in central Africa A Russian-linked mercenary group has been accused of carrying out beatings, torture and executions in the Central African Republic (CAR), a human rights group said Tuesday.
May 3, 2022 Russia escalates spat and accuses Israel of supporting 'neo-nazis in Ukraine' Russia's foreign ministry on Tuesday accused Israel of supporting neo-Nazis in Ukraine in a move that escalated a back and forth spat between the Jewish nation and Moscow.
May 3, 2022 Russian military is now storming Mariupol steel factory, Ukrainian forces say Ukrainian forces at the Azovstal steel factory in Mariupol said Tuesday that Russia’s military is now storming the complex.
May 3, 2022 Boris Johnson makes unprecedented speech to Ukraine lawmakers, hails ‘greatest feat of arms of 21st century' British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in an address by video to Ukraine's parliament Tuesday, told lawmakers in the war-torn country that their military has "accomplished the greatest feat of arms of the 21st century" by keeping Russian forces outside of Kyiv.
May 3, 2022 Russia 'wrongfully detained' Brittney Griner in February, State Department spox says Brittney Griner was arrested in February after Russian officials claimed a search of her luggage revealed vape cartridges containing oil derived from cannabis.
May 3, 2022 Pope Francis says he asked to meet Putin in March over Ukraine war, but hasn't heard back: report Pope Francis has revealed that he told the Kremlin in March that he was “willing to go to Moscow” to discuss the war in Ukraine with Russian President Vladimir Putin – but the Vatican has “not yet received a response,” according to an interview published Tuesday.
