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Three-day ceasefire ends with fresh wave of Russian attacks on Ukraine – Europe live

The Guardian · 🇬🇧 public United Kingdom · · 1113 words · By Jakub Krupa
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Three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine ends with fresh waves of attacks Today’s talks in Brussels come as the three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine announced by president Donald Trump last week ended with a fresh wave of Russian strikes.

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What happened

Three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine ends with fresh waves of attacks Today’s talks in Brussels come as the three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine announced by president Donald Trump last week ended with a fresh wave of Russian strikes.

Why it matters

AFP reported that Moscow launched a wave of more than 200 attack drones that damaged energy facilities and apartment buildings, killing at least one person.

Common ground

In a post on X, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that “Russia chose to end the partial silence that had lasted for several days.” “Attack drones were shot down in the Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions, as well as in…

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No major persuasion pattern has been attached yet, so the source, headline, and evidence should carry most of the weight for readers.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Andriy Yermak,to resign”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results to support or refute the claim that Andriy Yermak resigned.
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Claim 2: “EU defence ministers are meeting in Brussels today to discuss the bloc’s threat assessment, its support for Ukraine, and what Europe could do to help in the Middle East”
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Claim 3: “the new Hungarian government led by Péter Magyar is expected to be formally appointed today”
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Claim 4: “Moldova will report for duty as we are going to see the first semi-final of the Eurovision song contest in Vienna”
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Claim 5: “three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine announced by president Donald Trump last week ended with a fresh wave of Russian strikes”
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Multiple independent web search results (Meduza and others) confirm that President Donald Trump announced a three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine which subsequently ended with Russian strikes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potent…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Trump–Ukraine_scandal
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The 2025 Russia–United States Summit (also known as the Trump–Putin Summit in Alaska) was a summit meeting between United States president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. It was hel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Russia–United_States_summ…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On February 28, 2025, U.S. president Donald Trump and U.S. vice president JD Vance held a highly contentious bilateral meeting with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy inside the Oval Office at th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Trump–Zelenskyy_Oval_Offi…
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Claim 6: “It’s Tuesday, 12 May 2026”
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Claim 7: “following the evacuation of the MV Hondius cruise ship over the weekend”
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Wikipedia and multiple web search results confirm the outbreak of hantavirus on the MV Hondius in April 2026 and the subsequent evacuation of passengers.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Jodocus Hondius (Latinised version of his Dutch name: Joost de Hondt) (17 October 1563 – 12 February 1612) was a Flemish engraver and cartographer. He is sometimes called Jodocus Hondius the Elder to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodocus_Hondius
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — MV Hondius is a Dutch expedition cruise ship owned by Oceanwide Expeditions. Built by Brodosplit in Split, Croatia, the vessel entered service in 2019 and operates primarily in the Arctic and Antarcti…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Hondius
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In April 2026, an outbreak of hantavirus infection caused by the Andes virus was identified on the Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius. The ship left Ushuaia, Argentina, on 1 April 2026. A passenger on board…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Hondius_hantavirus_outbreak
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Claim 8: “Ukraine’s anti-corruption agencies said the “former head of the Office of the President of Ukraine” was among those suspected of participating in a criminal group that laundered about $10.5m through an elite housing development outside the capital, Kyiv”
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Claim 9: “the incubation period is also six to eight weeks”
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Both Deutsche Welle (cross-reference) and web search results explicitly state that the incubation period for the virus in the MV Hondius outbreak was six to eight weeks.
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web search NEUTRAL — An incubation period of six to eight weeks, during which symptoms may not be apparent, meant that illness on the MV Hondius took some time to present itself. According to the WHO, there were 147 peopl…
https://www.dw.com/en/hantavirus-how-is-the-outbreak-being-c…
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web search NEUTRAL — The incubation period is typically between two and four weeks after exposure, but symptoms may appear as early as one week or as late as eight weeks. During the current outbreak of Hantavirus, WHO has…
https://www.goodreturns.in/news/what-is-hantavirus-know-symp…
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web search NEUTRAL — As we learn more about the hantavirus outbreak aboard a cruise ship, one expert breaks down what we should know about the virus' incubation period.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hantavirus-exposure-cruise-sh…
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Claim 10: “World Health Organization’s Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is currently giving a briefing alongside the Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez on the current situation on hantavirus”
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Web search results confirm Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus's involvement and messaging regarding the hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius and his travel to Tenerife, though the specific 'briefing alongside Pedro Sánchez' is not explicitly detailed in the snippets, the context of the WHO's active response in Spain is verified.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The director-general of the World Health Organization is the chief executive officer of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the principal advisor to the United Nations on matters pertaining to glo…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (Ge'ez: ቴዎድሮስ አድሓኖም ገብረኢየሱስ, sometimes spelled ቴድሮስ ኣድሓኖም ገብረየሱስ; born 3 March 1965) is an Ethiopian public health official, researcher, diplomat, and the director-general o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedros_Adhanom_Ghebreyesus
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — WHO Goodwill Ambassador is an official honorary title that is granted to those goodwill ambassadors and advocates who are designated by the United Nations. WHO Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity advoc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHO_Goodwill_Ambassador
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Claim 11: “the index case, the first case in the ship, was on 6 April, and until … the report was confirmed as infectious – that’s around 24 April or 25”
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The provided evidence confirms the outbreak occurred in April 2026 and mentions the first case, but the specific dates of April 6 and April 24/25 are not explicitly corroborated across multiple independent sources in the provided snippets.
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web search NEUTRAL — The first hantavirus case on the MV Hondius could not have been infected during the cruise, a World Health Organization expert told AFP on Wednesday.Out of eight confirmed and suspected hantavirus cas…
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-05-hantavirus-infection-…
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web search NEUTRAL — In April 2026, an outbreak of hantavirus was identified on the cruise ship MV Hondius, anchored off the coast of Praia, Cape Verde.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Hondius_hantavirus_outbreak
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web search NEUTRAL — The first hantavirus case on the MV Hondius could not have been infected during the cruise, a World Health Organization expert told AFP on Wednesday.
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2026/05/who-says-hantavirus-case…
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Claim 12: “Energy facilities, apartment buildings, and a kindergarten were damaged, and there was also a strike on an ordinary civilian locomotive on the railway”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of articles about Russian culture and Eurasianism, which are completely irrelevant to the specific claim about damaged kindergartens and locomotives.
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web search NEUTRAL — Sep 25, 2024 · 6,331 words Western historians and analysts have always failed to comprehend Russia. Among many other things, its imperial nature has been puzzling to Westerners. For obvious reasons, t…
https://counter-currents.com/2024/09/russian-culture-as-pseu…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 7, 2023 · 2,152 words Marlène Laruelle Russian Eurasianism: An Ideology of Empire Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012 Eurasianism is the dominant ideology of Russia today, as well as…
https://counter-currents.com/2023/02/russian-eurasianism-its…
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web search NEUTRAL — Aug 13, 2019 · By holding up Matryona as the ideal of the Russian people, Solzhenitsyn is also holding up a mirror to Russia, saying, “This is what we are – see how we far we fall short of what we cou…
https://counter-currents.com/2019/08/matryonas-house/
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Claim 13: “Ukrainian authorities have named Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s powerful former chief of staff as a suspect in a major corruption investigation”
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Claim 14: “AFP reported that Moscow launched a wave of more than 200 attack drones that damaged energy facilities and apartment buildings, killing at least one person”
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While web search results confirm Russian drone attacks on energy facilities and apartment buildings causing deaths, none of the provided evidence specifically mentions the 'more than 200 attack drones' figure attributed to AFP in the claim.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Beriev Be-200 Altair (Russian: Бериев Бе-200 «Альтаир») is a jet-powered amphibious flying boat of utility type designed and built by the Beriev Aircraft Company. Marketed as being designed for fi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beriev_Be-200
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Cargo 200 (Russian: Груз 200, romanized: Gruz 200) is a military code word used in the Soviet Union and the post-Soviet states referring to the transportation of military fatalities. It is known sinc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_200_(code_name)
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Russia 200 («Россия 200»; website: 200.zona.media) is a collaborative journalism project run by Mediazona, BBC Russian Service, and a team of volunteers, which since May 2022 has maintained a named li…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia_200
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Claim 15: “Attack drones were shot down in the Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, and Chernihiv regions, as well as in Kyiv and the region”
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Multiple web search results explicitly list the Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Kharkiv, Chernihiv regions, and Kyiv as areas where drones were shot down or damage was reported.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This timeline of the Russo-Ukrainian war covers the period from 1 January 2026 to the present day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Russo-Ukrainia…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On 24 February 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian war, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, starting the current phase of the war, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II. By Apri…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_invasion_of_Ukrai…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Kyiv Oblast (Ukrainian: Київська область, romanized: Kyivska oblast, IPA: [ˈkɪjiu̯sʲkɐ ˈɔblɐsʲtʲ]), also called Kyivshchyna (Київщинa, IPA: [ˈkɪjiu̯ʃtʃɪnɐ]), is an oblast (province) in central and nor…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyiv_Oblast
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