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VIDEO: French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz visit Berlin's symbolically important Brandenburg Gate, which is illuminated in Ukraine's national colours
#BREAKING German FM Baerbock visits Bucha on surprise Ukraine visit: AFP
Graphic showing key developments in Ukraine as of May 10, 0700 GMT
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#UPDATE German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock during a surprise trip to Ukraine on Tuesday visited Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv where Russian troops have been accused of killing civilians
#BREAKING Over 1,000 Ukraine fighters, including hundreds injured, still in Azovstal plant: Kyiv
#UPDATE Kyiv says that more than 1,000 Ukrainian troops, many of them injured, remained in the sprawling Azovstal steel works in the Russian-controlled port city of #Mariupol
"I feel total apathy. I am morally starved -- not to mention physically."
Lysychansk was once an important coal mining centre before Russia invaded #Ukraine on February 24.
Now the city is in ruins and residents rely on a tiny stream for access to water
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#UPDATE The Ukrainian economy is set to contract by almost one third this year in the wake of Russia's invasion, the European development bank said Tuesday
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#BREAKING Kyiv mayor says nearly two-thirds of residents have returned
#UPDATE The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv said Tuesday that nearly two-thirds of the capital's residents had returned after a massive exodus following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in late February
#BREAKING More than 8 million internally displaced in Ukraine: UN
#UPDATE More than eight million people are estimated to have been internally displaced by Russia's war in Ukraine, having fled their homes but stayed within the country, the United Nations said Tuesday
#BREAKING Germany to reopen embassy in Kyiv 'shortly': foreign minister
#BREAKING Kyiv hails Berlin's 'change of position' on oil embargo, arms to Ukraine
#BREAKING Ukraine's EU membership 'a matter of war and peace' for Europe: foreign minister

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