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🇺🇦🇷🇺French Ministry of Defence assessment of Ukraine for May 21

🇨🇳🇰🇮Financial Times: China is intensifying its drive for influence in the Pacific by negotiating security deals with two additional island nations following a pact with the Solomon Islands, according to officials in the US and allied countries. Beijing’s talks with Kiribati, a Pacific island nation 3,000km from Hawaii where US Indo-Pacific Command is based, are the most advanced, the officials said.

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, last pockets of Ukrainian resistance in the Lugansk region

🇺🇦🇷🇺Latest ISW maps of Ukraine

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🇺🇦🇷🇺Ukrainian Azov Regiment Commander Denys Prokopenko has reportedly exited Azovstal and surrendered. He appears to have suffered an injury to his right arm https://twitter.com/LucasADWebber/status/1527704246011023364?s=20&t=pah15JBLsYD8QEvXYXfCiA

🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP map of Ukraine showing position of military forces as of May 20, 0700 GMT

🇲🇱AFP: Three Italians and a Togolese national were kidnapped "by armed men" Thursday evening in southeastern Mali, a local official and a Malian security source told AFP Map showing zones of influence by armed groups in the Sahel

🇺🇦🇷🇺French Defence Ministry assessment of Ukraine for May 20

🇺🇦🇷🇺The latest UK Defence Intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine - 20 May 2022

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🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺AFP: US Congress approves new $40 bn aid package for Ukraine