Summary and Key Points: Russia has lost an estimated 250 to 400 aircraft over Ukraine, including Su-25 attack jets, Su-34 strike fighters, and — most painfully — Tu-95 and Tu-22 strategic bombers it can no longer build.

In a significant escalation early on Sunday, May 24, Russia conducted one of its most intense bombings of Ukraine since the conflict began, resulting in at least four fatalities and numerous injuries.

It is the highest on-the-record estimate of Russian military deaths to come from any government since the war in Ukraine began.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday that he’s being “very persistent” in pressing the United States to provide his country with more Patriot air defense missiles that can counter devastating Russian ballistic missile attacks.

Romania says a Russian drone has hit a block of flats in the country, which it calls a "grave escalation". Meanwhile, Ukraine accuses the Kremlin's forces of also attacking a Turkish cargo ship. Follow the latest on the war and the effects of two NATO nations potentially being dragged in.

Russia has issued the United States and other countries with diplomats in Kyiv, urging them to leave Ukraine or face what it called “systematic strikes” on the Ukrainian capital. The warning came just days after the Ukrainian capital faced one of the heaviest attacks since the start of the Russian invasion.

Ukraine’s parliament ratified a loan agreement with the European Union on Thursday, paving the way for €90 billion in financing and allowing the government to channel record funds to defence and the war with Russia now in its fifth year.

By Simon Johnson and Johan Ahlander UPPSALA, Sweden, May 28 (Reuters) - Ukraine will buy 20 new Gripen fighter jets and Sweden will donate 16 of an older model next year, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a joint press conference on Thursday.

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