Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

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Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine

******* foreign minister says there will be consequences for Russian cyberattack

Annalena Baerbock (Alliance 90/The Greens), Foreign Minister, looks at a screen displaying a cyber exercise in the *********** Center for Cyber Cooperation.

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******* Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock on Friday that Russia would face consequences for a cyberattack which was allegedly carried out by a group linked to Russian military intelligence services.

Several ******* websites were taken offline by Russian hackers in early 2023 following Germany’s decision to provide tanks to Ukraine, the country said.

“We can now clearly attribute last year’s ******* to the Russian group APT28, which is controlled by the Russian military intelligence service GRU,” Baerbock said at a press conference in Australia, Reuters reported.

This meant Russian state hackers had attacked Germany in cyberspace, which is “completely unacceptable and will not remain without consequences,” Baerbock added.

This is not the only time Germany has faced an alleged cyberattack from Russia.

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’s cyber unit Mandiant said earlier this year that it had detected a phishing campaign by Russian hackers aimed at ******* political parties.

Several other countries and companies have also alleged that Russian hackers have targeted them since the war began.

Late last year, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre said British politicians, civil servants and journalists were targeted in a hack by a group likely linked to Moscow’s FSB spy agency that aimed to undermine British democracy. And

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said in March that is was facing months-long attempts by Russian hackers to gain access to its internal systems and source code repositories.

— Sophie Kiderlin

Russia destroys six Ukrainian drones overnight, its defence ministry says

The Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday that it had destroyed six drones from Ukraine overnight, according to a

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by the ministry on Telegram.

Five unmanned aerial vehicles were destroyed over the Belgorod region, near the Russian-Ukrainian border, and one over the Crimean peninsula in the ****** Sea, which is currently occupied by Russia.

CNBC could not independently verify the developments on the ground.

— Sophie Kiderlin

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says promised *** weapons are needed as soon as possible

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Friday he met with U.K. Foreign Secretary David Cameron to discuss the situation on the front line and British support for Ukraine.

“It is important that the weapons included in the *** support package announced last week arrive as soon as possible. First of all, armored vehicles, ammunition, and missiles of various types,” Zelenskyy said in a

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on social media platform X.

Cameron visited Ukraine on Thursday, the British Foreign Ministry said in a

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, adding that the visit came after the British government committed to giving £3 billion ($3.7 billion) to support Ukraine’s military each year.

Britain’s Foreign Secretary David Cameron walks past a display of destroyed Russian military vehicles in Saint Michael’s Square, amid Russia’s ******* on Ukraine on May 2, 2024 in Kyiv, Ukraine.

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The U.K. would provide “precision-guided ******, and air defence missiles and equipment for 100 mobile air defence teams,” the ministry said.

Cameron told Reuters late on Thursday that this support would last “for as long as is necessary,” the news agency reported. Ukraine had the right to use the weapons donated by the U.K. to ******* targets on Russian ground, he added.

— Sophie Kiderlin

Top U.S. spy says war ‘unlikely to end anytime soon’

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill May 02, 2024 in Washington, DC.

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The war in Ukraine is “unlikely to end anytime soon” as Russia ramps up its efforts to debilitate Kyiv’s defensive capabilities, the U.S.’s top intelligence official said Thursday, according to Reuters.

Testifying before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said that Moscow was increasingly attacking Ukraine’s infrastructure to limit its ability to move arms and troops, while also hampering its defense production.

“******’s increasingly aggressive tactics against Ukraine, such as strikes on Ukraine’s electricity infrastructure, are intended to impress Ukraine that continuing to ****** will only increase the damage to Ukraine and offer no plausible path to victory,” Haines reportedly said.

“These aggressive tactics are likely to continue and the war is unlikely to end anytime soon,” she added.

— Karen Gilchrist

Thousands of ******, drones, missiles hit Ukraine in April, Zelenskyy says

Russian forces attacked Ukraine with thousands of guided aerial ****** and hundreds of missiles and drones in April, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday.

“Just this April alone, Russian terrorists used more than 300 missiles of various types, nearly 300 “Shahed” drones, and more than 3,200 guided aerial ****** against Ukraine,” Zelenskyy

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“Our cities and communities from Sumy region to Odesa region, Dnipropetrovsk region, Kharkiv region, Donetsk region, Mykolaiv, and Kherson are suffering from this deliberate and vile ******* every day and night,” he said. 

Firefighters conduct operations in the rubble of heavily damaged building, part of which collapsed, following the Russian missile ******* on Chernihiv, Ukraine on April 17, 2024.

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“Unfortunately, many lives have been taken by these attacks. And it is only through strength that [we can] stop this *******. The strength of our people, the strength of the world’s unity, the strength of pressure on Russia, the strength of air defense systems provided to Ukraine, the strength of our soldiers who are holding the front line,” he said.

CNBC was unable to verify the data used in Zelenskyy’s post. Ukraine routinely describes Russia as a ********** state and accuses it of war *******. Russia levels the same criticism at Ukraine and says it does not deliberately target civilians or civilian infrastructure.

— Holly Ellyatt

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