Top news for May 9

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Top news for May 7 ✹ The Digital Development Ministry announced that there will be no mobile internet in Moscow on May 9. Not even for “white lists.” ✹ Only the heads of three UN member states will come to the Victory Day parade in Moscow. Zelensky warned foreign politicians against celebrati...

Top news for May 9

✹ Victory Day:

in Moscow, a parade, a shutdown, and empty streets;

in St. Petersburg, people brought a photo of Yevgeny Prigozhin to the “Immortal Regiment”;

in Narva on the border with Russia, a “Putin is a war criminal” banner was hung;

in North Ossetia, babies in maternity hospitals were made to wear side caps;

in Kemerovo, a journalist congratulated the mother of a soldier missing in action on her “double holiday.”

✹ The three-day ceasefire appears to be holding. But the Kremlin does not intend to extend it.

✹ The head of the WHO arrived in Tenerife to oversee the evacuation of passengers from a cruise ship where a hantavirus outbreak occurred, and to reassure residents.

✹ At meetings with Putin, according to Mozhem Obyasnit, officials were banned from wearing wristwatches.

Text of the day. 350,000 lives is the price Russia has already paid for the aggression unleashed by the country’s authorities. With each passing day, that price rises. A new reliable estimate of Russian Armed Forces losses over four years of the full-scale war.

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