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By joining NATO, Finland and Sweden will lose their role as neutral mediators, said Sergei Markov, director of the Institute for Political Studies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed granting the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) observer status in the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO).

Kirill Stremousov, said that Ukraine began to open criminal cases against specialists who continued to work in the region after the arrival of Russian forces.

The Polish authorities want to take away from the Russian embassy a recreation center located in the Skubianka area on the Zegrzyński Bay, 40 km from Warsaw.

Military expert Dmitry Litovkin said in an interview with NEWS.ru that Russian troops "are starting to come out" to complete the encirclement of the AFU grouping in Avdiivka.

Russia is imposing retaliatory sanctions on those states that have taken unfriendly steps against Moscow, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Pankin said.

Russian Ambassador to Poland Sergei Andreev believes that the attack on him and other Russian diplomats on May 9 in Warsaw was being prepared under the control of Polish special services.

The head of the Polish government, Mateusz Morawiecki, said that Poland is trying to be the first to limit diplomatic contacts with Russia.

Based on the information of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, 1,351 Russian servicemen were killed in the course of a special military operation.

The flags of Ukraine have been removed from public transport in Warsaw, where they were placed for more than two months as part of a solidarity action with Ukraine, a TASS correspondent reports.

The time for negotiations between Ukraine and Russia has passed. This opinion was expressed by the Ukrainian Ambassador to London Vadym Prystaiko in an interview with the ITV channel.

The Ukrainian authorities have not abandoned their intention to join NATO, said Olga Stefanishyna, Vice Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of the country.

With the decision not only to supply heavy weapons to Ukraine, but also to train Ukrainian soldiers, Germany set itself up and Europe, Bundestag deputy Jacqueline Nasticch told Junge Welt.

In Ukraine, as a result of a missile strike by the Russian army, the pillars of the bridge across the Dniester Estuary were destroyed, Oleg Tsarev, ex-speaker of the Novorossiya parliament, said.

Finland will announce its decision to apply for NATO membership on May 12, Finnish newspaper Iltalehti writes, citing government sources.