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29/05/2022

Ukrainian band Kalush Orchestra, the winners of this year's Eurovision Song Contest, have sold their Eurovision trophy at a charity auction for $900,000 and will use the money to buy three drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces. — Ukrinform.

28/05/2022

"Some €3 million have been raised in just three days — out of the €5m needed — largely in small amounts, according to Laisves TV, a Lithuanian internet broadcaster that launched the drive."

https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/28/lithuanians-organise-donation-drive-to-buy-bayraktar-drone-for-ukraine

Some €3 million out of the €5m needed have been raised in just three days largely in small amounts, the Lithuanian internet broadcaster that launched the drive stated.

27/05/2022

"Croatia’s Adriatic ports may provide an alternative route for transporting grain from Ukraine, whose Black Sea ports remain blocked ... [Croatia] can be an efficient and short route to North Africa"

https://ubn.news/croatia-offers-ports-for-the-transportation-of-ukrainian-grain/

Croatia offers ports for the transportation of Ukrainian grain. - Agriculture

25/05/2022

On Putin's fascism ...

"A New York Times essay ... entitled “We Should Say It. Russia Is Fascist,” has spread through Russian state media like wildfire, producing a bombastic firestorm of outraged reactions from the Kremlin’s most prominent mouthpieces."

https://www.thedailybeast.com/russian-state-television-betrays-donald-trump-in-crazed-defense-of-putins-war-in-ukraine

Infuriated by an article labeling Russia as a fascist nation, a top Putin loyalist known for his admiration of Donald Trump seems to have turned on the former U.S. president.

24/05/2022

A Russian military working dog reportedly abandoned on a battlefield in Ukraine has switched sides and is now helping Ukrainian soldiers detect explosives left by its former masters.

23/05/2022

Starbucks said it will continue to pay its nearly 2,000 Russian employees for six months and help them transition to new jobs.

23/05/2022

"This Saturday, the National Opera of Ukraine in Kyiv re-opened for the first time since the start of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, almost four months ago.

The first performance back was of Italian composer Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera, The Barber of Seville, and the audience reportedly gave the two-act production a 10-minute standing ovation."

https://www.classicfm.com/composers/rossini/ukraine-national-opera-house-reopens-kyiv/

While war rages on in Ukraine, music and applause were heard for the first time since the start of the Russian invasion at the country’s national opera house.

23/05/2022

Newsweek has been reporting for weeks on a series of mysterious fires that have broken out across Russia in buildings, oil and ammunition depots, warehouses and other places.

https://www.newsweek.com/every-mysterious-fire-break-out-russia-recently-full-list-1704100

The latest, as of Saturday morning, was the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute in Zhukovsky, “a hub of jet engine design and development for Russian rockets and Military jets.” Russia called it a "research center."

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2022/5/21/2099360/-Another-Suspicious-fire-in-Russia-The-Central-Aerohydrodynamic-Institute-in-Zhukovsky-Burns