During a premiere at the Cannes festival, a woman protested against the sexual violence by Russian soldiers against women in Ukraine. Also in this live blog: Russian Defense Minister Shoygu says that the ‘liberation of the Luhansk People’s Republic’ is near. Ukrainian officials report that “the intensity of the shelling in the region has doubled”. And the Russian state gas company Gazprom will stop supplying gas to Finland.

The situation in Ukraine
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