Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin should be hauled into court for his war in Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated on Thursday in The Hague, requiring the production of a war criminal activities tribunal different to the International Criminal Court.

“The aggressor must feel the full power of justice. This is our historical responsibility,” Zelenskyy stated in a speech.

“Only one institution is capable of responding to the original crime, the crime of aggression: a tribunal. Not some compromise that will allow politicians to say that the case is allegedly done, but a true, really true, full-fledged tribunal.”

An act of hostility is specified by the United Nations as the”invasion or attack by the armed forces of a state (on) the territory of another state, or any military occupation”

The ICC, which is based in The Hague and which Zelenskyy checked out previously in the day, provided an arrest warrant for Putin for thought deportation of kids from Ukraine.

But it does not have actually jurisdiction over declared criminal activities of hostility, and the European Commission, to name a few, has actually currently brought its assistance for the production of a different global centre for the prosecution of the criminal offense of hostility in Ukraine, that would be established in TheHague

“We all want to see a different Vladimir here in The Hague, the one who deserves to be sanctioned for his criminal actions here, in the capital of international law,” Zelenskyy stated, describing Putin.

“I’m sure we will see that happen when we win, and we will win,” he stated, including: “Whoever brings war must receive judgement.”

Major legal and useful concerns stay around how such a court would be legitimized, either by a group of nations supporting it or with approval from the U.N. General Assembly.

Russia is not a member of the ICC and currently declines its jurisdiction. It rejects dedicating atrocities throughout its dispute with Ukraine, which it terms a “special operation” to “demilitarize” its next-door neighbor.

— Reuters

Russia declared that the U.S. assisted Ukraine plot and perform a declared drone attack on the Kremlin, which it identified as an assassination effort on the Russian president, declaring “Washington is definitely behind this attack.”

Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov informed press reporters Thursday that Russia thought Ukraine was executing strategies “dictated” by Washington, however did not supply any proof to support the claims.

“Attempts to disown this, both in Kyiv and in Washington, are, of course, absolutely ridiculous. We know very well that decisions about such actions, about such terrorist attacks, are made not in Kyiv but in Washington,” Peskov stated, according to remarks reported by Reuters.

“This is also often dictated from across the ocean. We know this well and are aware of this … In Washington they must clearly understand that we know this.”

Ukraine has actually rejected participation in the event, which happened in the early hours of Wednesday early morning.

Peskov included that the supposed drone attack needs a “thorough, urgent investigation” which Russia’s reaction would include “well thought-out, balanced steps.”

Russia might react in a range of methods, Peskov stated, without supplying additional information. On Wednesday, the Kremlin stated “the Russian side reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it sees fit.”

–Holly Ellyatt

A political consultant to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated Thursday that Russia staged a drone attack on the Kremlin that Moscow blamed onKyiv

Ukraine has actually currently emphatically rejected any participation in the event, which Russia defined as a “planned terrorist attack” and assassination effort on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a top Ukrainian authorities, voiced additional doubts over the supposed “attack” on Twitter Thursday, mentioning that video footage of the “attack”– which revealed 2 unknown figures on the roofing of the Kremlin’s Senate structure as a drone takes off above it– was suspicious, as was the 12- hour hold-up in between the supposed event and the Kremlin’s statement on it.

Podolyak stated that, on the other hand, the shelling of the city of Kherson in southern Ukraine on Wednesday that left 23 civilians dead was all too genuine.

Oleksandr Prokudin, the head of the Kherson local military administration, stated Thursday early morning that Russia shelled the larger area 98 times over the previous 24 hours, which houses of the area were targeted. Russia rejects targeting civilians, in spite of day-to-day strikes on civilian facilities.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, stated Wednesday that Russia will react to a supposed drone attack on the Kremlin “when we consider it necessary.”

The Kremlin blamed the “attack” on Ukraine the other day, calling it an assassination effort on Russian President Putin, however did not present proof to support its claims. Kyiv rejected any participation in the event.

“How would Americans react if a drone hit the White House, the Capitol or the Pentagon? The answer is obvious for any politician as well as for an average citizen: the punishment will be harsh and inevitable,” Antonov stated, according to remarks released by Russian state news firm Tass.

“Russia will respond to this insolent and presumptuous terrorist attack. We will answer when we consider it necessary. We will answer in accordance with the assessments of the threat that Kiev posed to the leadership of our country.”

Ukraine rejected any participation in a supposed drone attack which the Kremlin declares Kyiv performed in the early hours of Wednesday early morning.

Some Western experts think it’s most likely that Russia staged the “attack” itself as a possible “false flag” attack, and to boost its representation of Ukraine as a “terrorist” state. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated Russia’s report needs to be taken with a “very large shaker of salt.”

Antonov countered at those actions, stating U.S. authorities had actually been “striking in their cynicism and absurdity.”

“The theses that this act of terrorism was allegedly a ‘false flag operation’ are blasphemous and deceitful. That is, it was Russia itself that staged a provocation against the heart of our statehood?!,” Antonov stated.

The ambassador did not information how Russia may “respond” to the event however declared it revealed Ukraine did not desire peace.

“Our adversaries have no desire to seek peace, to save thousands of lives of ordinary Ukrainians. Definitely, we will take this circumstance into account while working out our strategy to implement the goals and objectives of the special military operation,” Antonov stated.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and the port city of Odesa were targeted in additional tried drone strikes overnight, Ukrainian authorities stated.

Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv City Military Administration, stated on Telegram that the capital had actually been targeted once again with drones and rockets, marking the “third attack on the capital over four days of May.”

“Our city has not suffered such a dense intensity of strikes since the beginning of this year,” Popko stated. The air raid alert in Kyiv lasted over 3 hours last night. Popko stated the drones and rockets were damaged, although the particles from damaged drones harmed some structures and parked cars and trucks. No casualties were reported, he stated.

Separately, Ukraine’s southern command grouping stated 12 out of 15 drones utilized to attack Odesa over night were damaged.

Ukraine’s flying force stated it damaged 18 out of 24 Iranian- made “Shahed-136/131 combat drones” that were introduced over night by Russia from its Western Bryansk area, and from the eastern coast of the Sea ofAzov The drones were shot down in the northern, main, and southern areas of Ukraine, it stated.

CNBC was not able to instantly confirm the information within the reports.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia implicated Ukraine of trying to assault the Kremlin Wednesday, stating the federal government in Kyiv attempted to strike the governmental house in Moscow utilizing 2 unmanned aerial cars, or drones.

Ukraine rejected any participation in the event, stating it most likely indicated that Russia was preparing a massive terrorist attack versus Ukraine in the coming days. Russia has actually typically been implicated of outlining “false flag” attacks that it can blame on Ukraine and utilize to validate or intensify its own military hostility versus the nation.

Analysts at the Institute for the Study of War stated Wednesday night that “Russia likely staged this attack in an attempt to bring the war home to a Russian domestic audience and set conditions for a wider societal mobilization.”

Several indications recommend that the strike was internally carried out and actively staged, the ISW kept in mind, not least of all due to the fact that Russia has actually just recently taken actions to increase its domestic air defense abilities and it was exceptionally not likely “that two drones could have penetrated multiple layers of air defense and detonated or been shot down just over the heart of the Kremlin in a way that provided spectacular imagery caught nicely on camera.”

In addition, the ISW stated it thinks that the Kremlin’s “immediate, coherent, and coordinated response” to the event recommends that the attack “was internally prepared in such a way that its intended political effects outweigh its embarrassment.”

The Kremlin stated Russian President Vladimir Putin was not hurt in what it defined as “a planned terrorist attack” and assassination effort (Putin had actually not remained in the Kremlin at the time of the supposed event). It did not supply any proof that Ukraine had actually performed the attack.

–Holly Ellyatt

President Joe Biden stated his administration would continue to support newsrooms and reporters all over the world in a declaration on World Press Freedom Day.

“No journalist – American or not – should have to risk their lives and livelihoods in pursuit of that truth. Evan Gershkovich and Austin Tice weigh heavy on my mind today,” Biden stated.

“A free press is a pillar of democracy. It allows our government and our society to be self-critical and self-correcting. It educates, illuminates, exposes, and uncovers. It serves as a guardian of truth,” he included.

Gershkovich, a press reporter for The Wall Street Journal based in Moscow, was jailed more than a month earlier by Russian authorities on espionage charges.

Tice, a self-employed reporter and previous U.S. Marine, was abducted in Syria in 2012 and ahs been cooped given that.

— Amanda Macias

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday stated the U.S. can not confirm Russia’s allegation that Ukraine attempted to strike the Kremlin with drones over night in an effort to assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to Reuters.

Blinken stated he would take anything originating from the Kremlin with a “very large shaker of salt,” according to the report.

He likewise repeated the United States’ assistance for Ukraine and stated he feels great that the nation will succeed in its effort to retake more of its area.

— Michele Luhn

Ukraine rejected any participation in a supposed drone attack on the Kremlin that Moscow has actually blamed on Kyiv.

A senior Ukrainian governmental authorities, Mykhailo Podolyak, stated Ukraine had absolutely nothing to do with the drone strike, mentioning on Twitter that “Ukraine wages an exclusively defensive war and does not attack targets on the territory of the Russian Federation.”

Rather, he stated the claims recommend Russia was preparing a massive “terrorist” attack versus Ukraine in the coming days.

Serhii Nikiforov, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s representative, likewise informed the Ukrainian Pravda news outlet that Kyiv was not associated with the event.

“We have no information about the so-called night attacks on the Kremlin, but as President Zelenskyy has repeatedly stated, Ukraine directs all available forces and means to liberate its own territories, not to attack foreign ones,” he informed the news outlet in remarks equated by NBC News.

Nikiforov stated Russia’s description of the event as a “terrorist” attack was fascinating offered Russia’s duplicated attacks versus Ukrainian area throughout the war.

“A terrorist attack is the destroyed houses in Dnipro and Uman, or a rocket fired at the train station in Kramatorsk and many other tragedies. And what happened in Moscow was obviously an escalation of the situation in light of May 9,” mentioning Russia’s upcoming Victory Day parade honoring the Soviet triumph over Nazi Germany in World War II.

The remarks followed the Kremlin declared Wednesday that Ukraine attempted to strike the Kremlin with drones overnight, however stated the supposed attack on the heart of the Russian federal government was “successfully repulsed.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin was not hurt in the event, the Kremlin stated. It supplied no proof to support the claim of a tried attack.

— Holly Ellyatt

The Kremlin declared Wednesday that Ukraine attempted to strike the Kremlin with drones over night however stated the attack on the heart of the Russian federal government was “successfully repulsed.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin was not hurt in the supposed attack, which was reported by the Kremlin, which supplied no proof to support the claim of a tried attack, nevertheless.

“Last night, the Kyiv regime attempted to strike the Kremlin residence of the President of the Russian Federation with unmanned aerial vehicles,” the Kremlin specified, with the claim detailing that “two unmanned aerial vehicles were aimed at the Kremlin.”

“As a result of timely actions taken by the military and special services with the use of radar warfare systems, the devices were disabled,” the Kremlin stated.

“As a result of their fall and the scattering of fragments on the territory of the Kremlin, there are no casualties and material damage.”

Putin was not hurt and continues to work as normal after the Kyiv attack, it stated.

The Kremlin’s declaration recommended that it saw the tried attack as a “planned terrorist action” and an effort on the life of the president ahead of Victory Day on May 9.

Russia was currently thought to be losing weight its Victory Day parade, which honors the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany in WW2, amidst worries of Ukrainian strikes.

Russia reserves the right to react to an effort to strike at the Kremlin where and when it pleases, the Kremlin included, without providing information on how it prepared to react.

Footage started flowing on social networks channels supposedly revealing what might be an unmanned aerial car appearing to take off above a domed roofing of among the Kremlin’s structures. CNBC wasn’t able to instantly confirm the credibility of the video, nevertheless.

Ukraine has actually not openly talked about the claims. NBC News has actually connected to the Ukrainian federal government for remark however hasn’t yet gotten an action.

— Holly Ellyatt