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Russian diplomats get cold shoulder across Europe amid anger over war

Across Europe's capitals, Russian diplomats are facing a more challenging environment, with diplomatic expulsions by governments, protests by individual citizens and service denials by companies.

Green News

There could be solar panels on all buildings in the EU by 2025

Solar costs have plunged by more than 80% over the last decade, but the technology produced only 5% of EU electricity in 2020.

Europe Decoded

A week on, the EU appears no closer to a Russian oil embargo

Unlike other rounds of sanctions against Moscow approved swiftly by member states, these talks have been slow and optimism is diminishing.

Lithuania

Lithuanian MPs unanimously call Russia's war in Ukraine a 'genocide'

All 128 lawmakers voted in favour of the resolution, which labels Russia a terrorist state.

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Europe Decoded

The EU may have reached its 'whatever it takes' moment.

Draghi's famous "whatever it takes" comments helped save the euro. Can these words once more bring unity as the bloc deals with war on its doorstep and a crippling energy crisis?

Tech News

Russia attacked Europe's Internet an hour before invasion, West says

An attack against a satellite broadband firm that disrupted Internet connections across Europe was the work of Russian military intelligence.

Culture news

Meet the last skateboarder in Ukraine's war-torn Kramatorsk

Amid destroyed buildings and air raid sirens, 18 year-old Roman Kovalenko still skates the empty streets of Ukraine's eastern Kramatorsk

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Russia fires hypersonic missiles at Odesa

Russia pounded away at Ukraine’s vital southern port of Odesa, Ukrainian officials said on Tuesday, as they announced they found the bodies of 44 civilians in the rubble of a building in the northeast that was destroyed weeks ago.

Money

Ukraine war: What more could the US do to tighten sanctions on Russia?

The EU is proposing a new package of sanctions on Russia, including an oil embargo. Where does that leave its Western allies?

Poland

Anti-war protesters hit Russia's ambassador to Poland with red paint

Sergey Andreev had planned to pay tribute to Soviet soldiers at a Warsaw cemetery as Russia marks Victory Day.

My Europe Series

All you need to know about Russia's Victory Day military parade

Euronews' guide to Victory Day in Russia

Ukraine

Over 1 million Ukrainians deported to Russia — Ukraine rights official

Ukraine's human rights commissioner Lyudmila Denisova said around 1,185,000 Ukrainians have been forcibly removed to Russia while the US said they had "indications that Ukrainians are being taken against their will into Russia."

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Pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian demonstrations in Cologne

Thousands of people protested in the city of Cologne, in western Germany, with pro-Russia and pro-Ukraine

France

G7 leaders pledge to ban or phase out Russian oil imports

France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan, Canada and the USA say stopping the flow of Russian oil will cut the main artery of Vladimir Putin’s economy and deny him the revenue he needs to fund the war.

Ukraine

Ukrainian farmers export their harvest via Romania

Neighbouring countries are updating their port infrastructure to help with international exports, while Ukrainian farmers call the bomb squad to defuse undetonated explosives.

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Bono of U2 gives a show in the metro of Kyiv

Singer Bono and guitarist The Edge of the Irish rock band U2 performed a mini concert in a metro station in central Kyiv on Sunday.

Ukraine

US first lady Jill Biden pays surprise Mother's Day visit to Ukraine

The first lady met Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska in a town just 10 minutes drive from the Slovakian border.

Ukraine

Authorities fear 60 dead after Russia bombs Ukrainian school

The local governor says 90 people from one village were taking shelter in the school building when the bomb hit, and only 30 have been found alive.

Ukraine

Ukraine war: All women, children and elderly evacuated from Azovstal

Humanitarian efforts, lead by the United Nations and Red Cross, had been stepped up over the last week to evacuate the last civilians trapped in the sprawling Soviet-era steel works.

Europe Decoded

Orban criticises EU plans to sanction head of Russian Orthodox Church

Patriarch Kirill's support of Putin and the war has already drawn condemnation with Pope Francis warning him not to become "Putin's altar boy".

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