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Thanks for joining our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. Here's a snapshot of the day's headlines.

• Poland’s president has become the first foreign leader to speak in person in the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion in February
• Andrzej Duda received a standing ovation after saying that only Ukrainians themselves could decide their future
• Earlier, a Ukrainian presidential aide said his country would refuse to sign any ceasefire deal with Russia that involved handing over land
• Russia continues its assault on the east - targeting Severodonetsk with its Terminator tanks, according to British military intelligence
• A mayor installed by Russia in the occupied Enerhodar is in intensive care after being injured in an explosion, according to a Ukrainian official and Russian state media
• Ukraine has extended martial law by three months to 23 August

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After winning the English Premier League title for the fourth time with his club Manchester City, Ukrainian footballer Oleksandr Zinchenko has said he found it hard to even think about football after Russia invaded Ukraine in February.

Speaking to Sky Sports after draping the Ukrainian flag around the Premier League trophy, an emotional Zinchenko called it an unforgettable moment.

"I'm so proud to be Ukrainian," he said. "I would love to one day bring this title to Ukraine, for all Ukrainian people, because they deserve it."

Zinchenko said the time since the invasion began was the "toughest period in my life".

In an interview with BBC Sport's Gary Lineker soon after the start of the war, the Manchester City defender said he could not count the number of times he had cried since Russia's invasion began.

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Lithuania is no longer importing energy from Russia as of today.

Its energy minister said purchases of gas, oil and electricity from Moscow were stopping to show "solidarity" with Ukraine - and to cut funding for the "Russian war machine".

He hoped electricity demands could be met through local green energy production instead.

Lithuania, a former Soviet state and a Nato member, is a strong ally of Ukraine.

Despite its invasion of Ukraine, Russia continues to provide fuel to many European countries.

However, Finland's gas supply was cut off yesterday after it refused Moscow's demand to pay in roubles.

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People are being deported from Mariupol to other Russian-held territory at a faster and faster rate, according to a mayoral adviser in the fallen port city.

Petro Andryushchenko wrote on the Telegram app that 313 Mariupol residents were taken away to a so-called "filtration camp" in Russian-occupied Bezimenne on Saturday. 55 of them were children.

Andryushchenko said many of those being taken to camps were later being sent to Russia itself.

The BBC has not been able confirmed the claims, and Russia has previously denied any forced deportations.

Mariupol is now under total Russian control after its last defenders surrendered at an industrial plant on Friday.

New pictures from the Reuters news agency have given a flavour of life for Ukraine's military personnel.

Soldiers are seen performing exercises or taking breaks.

The photos were taken in the Donetsk region in Ukraine's east - the focus of fierce fighting.

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An update now on Andriy Shevchyk, the man installed by Russia as the mayor of occupied Enerhodar.

Shevchyk is now in intensive care after being injured in an explosion, Russia's state-run Ria Novosti news agency reports.

No further details were available.

Earlier we reported that Shevchyk and his bodyguards were hurt in what appeared to be a "precise and targeted attack", according to the city's elected mayor - who was ousted from power by the Russians.

James FitzGerald
BBC News

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The governor of Ukraine's Luhansk region has accused Russian "orcs" of destroying a bridge between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, amid fierce fighting in the area.

Serhiy Haidai is just the latest Ukrainian official to compare Russian troops to a type of mythical monster popularised by JRR Tolkien’s book The Lord of the Rings.

In the epic novel, orcs are seen as “brutal, aggressive and chaotic” says Ostap Slyvynsky, an associate professor at Lviv University specialising in the literature of east-central Europe.

Some Ukrainians even call Russia itself “Mordor” – alluding to a dark land in Tolkien’s fantasy.

The images give Ukrainians an easy-to-understand metaphor for what's going on in real life. "The fantasy world has a very clear accent on what is good and what is bad," Slyvynsky explains.

“These terms are kind of euphemisms,” he adds. “It is better to call Russians ‘orcs’ than more vulgar words.”

The trend emerged some time after 2014 - the year Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula and Russian-backed separatists seized parts of the eastern Donbas region.

As for the Russians: they've been labelling Ukrainians “elves” - another Tolkien allusion - in the belief that those fictional beings embody weakness, Slyvynsky says.

Adam Easton
Reporting from Warsaw

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The Polish president has delivered a message of strong support for Ukraine during the first address in person by a foreign leader to the parliament in Kyiv since the Russian invasion began.

During his speech Andrzej Duda thanked Ukraine for defending Europe against what he called “Russian imperialism”.

“The free world”, he said, “has the face of Ukraine”. Duda said recent calls for Kyiv to negotiate with President Putin, and even give into some of his demands, were disturbing. No decisions about your future will be made without you, he said.

Poland has been one of Ukraine’s staunchest supporters, taking in millions of refugees fleeing the fighting and sending tanks and rocket launchers to the Ukrainian military.

Duda, who received a standing ovation after his speech, said Poland would do everything it could to help Ukraine join the European Union.

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An exhibition of destroyed Russian tanks is proving popular with the public in Kyiv.

The vehicles have gone on show at Mykhailivska Square.

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Polish citizens living in Ukraine are to be granted the same rights that Ukrainian refugees in Poland are currently receiving.

Ukraine's President Zelensky announced the plan during a visit from his Polish counterpart, Andrzej Duda.

A bill will be tabled in parliament to make the changes happen.

Poland has granted the right to live, work and claim social security payments to more than three million Ukrainian refugees who've fled Russia's invasion.

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The Ukrainian parliament has passed a bill banning symbols of the Russian invasion, including those containing the letters Z and V, MP Yaroslav Zheleznyak said on Telegram.

Zheleznyak noted that the document included President Zelensky's proposals, which he submitted when he vetoed the previous draft law passed on 14 April.

The new version of the law widens the range of cases when the display of the symbols is allowed, namely in museums, libraries, scientific works, textbooks and so on, according to our colleagues at BBC Monitoring.

The new bill, however, bans the creation of NGOs which use Russian war symbols and whose activities are aimed at spreading war propaganda and undermining Ukraine's sovereignty and territorial integrity.

The letters "Z" and "V", which don't exist in the Russian alphabet, have been widely used to symbolise support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They are used to mark Russian military vehicles on the battlefield.

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A bid by Ukraine to join the EU could not be finalised for "15 or 20 years," France's minister for European affairs has said.

Speaking on Radio J in Paris, Clement Beaune said: "We have to be honest. If you say Ukraine is going to join the EU in six months, or a year or two, you're lying.

"It's probably in 15 or 20 years, it takes a long time."

His comments poured cold water on Volodymyr Zelensky's hopes for expedited entry to the bloc in the wake of Russia's invasion.

Beaune repeated French President Emmanuel Macron's offer to create a looser "European political community" that could help integrate Ukraine sooner, adding: "I don't want to offer Ukrainians any illusions or lies."

Zelensky has turned down what he called "such compromises" and insisted on an immediate start of the process towards full EU membership.

Beaune said Macron's proposal is not "an alternative to joining the European political community", emphasising: "It doesn't prevent membership later on."

Ukraine's aspirations to join the EU and Nato are seen as the main reason Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his invasion.

Macron's European political community initiative is due to be debated at an EU summit in June.

Ukraine has extended martial law for three months until 23 August.

President Volodymyr Zelensky first signed the decree, along with a general military mobilisation call, on 24 February and since then has extended it for a month on two occasions.

Today, Ukraine's parliament voted by an absolute majority for a third extension as Russia continues to focus its offensive on the eastern Donbas region.

Zelensky's representative at the Constitutional Court, Fedir Venislavskyy, said the decision to extend it for 90 days this time is because a "counter-offensive takes more time than defence".

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If you're just joining us, here's a look at the main news from the war in Ukraine so far today:

• The Ukrainian government has said it won't agree to any ceasefire deal that involves handing over territory to Russia
• A presidential aide said such a move could backfire if Moscow started up a new, bloodier offensive
• Poland's president has become the first foreign leader to speak in person to the Ukrainian parliament since the Russian invasion
• Andrzej Duda said only Ukraine had the right to decide its future - and that the country should not give up an inch of land
• President Zelensky has acknowledged the situation remains "extremely difficult" in Ukraine's east due to Russian efforts to try and capture the cities of Slovyansk and Severodonetsk
• Ukraine says it's repelled Russian attacks on the latter city from four different directions
• Military intelligence from the UK has suggested that Moscow has deployed its Terminator tanks in its assault on the Severodonetsk
• A mayor installed by Russia in the occupied city of Enerhodar has been hurt in an explosion - according to the city's elected mayor

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Kyiv

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Military and financial support from Western countries is increasingly making a difference.

At the start of the war, President Zelensky was saying they needed more and they needed it faster. But his position has gradually shifted, to acknowledge that the Ukrainians are getting the support they need with the urgency they need.

The big missing piece in the puzzle is still air defences.

A statement yesterday from the Russians - saying they’d destroyed a big shipment of military aid – shows Ukraine is still not getting the latest in air defence systems.

On every other front, I think the support is starting to come through. I’ve seen modern Western equipment being sent to the front lines.

They are always going to need more though, especially given the increased Russian pushes we’ve been seeing.

Andriy Shevchyk, a mayor installed by Russia in the occupied city of Enerhodar, has reportedly been injured in an explosion.

The city's elected mayor Dmytro Orlov - who is currently in nearby Zaporizhzhia - wrote on the Telegram messaging app that Shevchyk and his bodyguards had been taken to hospital after being wounded.

Orlov noted that the circumstances were still being established.

He added that nobody else had been hurt in the blast - suggesting this had been a "precise and targeted attack".

There was no immediate comment from the Russian side.

Enerhodar, a city of about 50,000 people which serves Europe's largest nuclear power plant, has been occupied by Russian forces since March.

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"Only Ukraine has the right to decide its future", the Polish president has said in a speech to the Ukrainian parliament.

Andrzej Duda said "worrying voices" were suggesting Ukraine should give in to Russia's President Putin, according to comments quoted by the Reuters news agency.

He told lawmakers that those voices should not be heeded - because ceding even an inch of Ukrainian territory would be a blow to the whole West.

Duda also reportedly stressed that Poland supported Ukraine in its bid to gain full membership of the European Union - a matter on which EU countries have not reached a consensus.

He was the first foreign leader to give an in-person speech to the Ukrainian parliament since Russia invaded on 24 February.

Photos posted on Twitter by Duda's office showed him receiving a standing ovation in parliament and embracing Zelensky.

Russia attacked Ukrainian forces with airstrikes and artillery in the east and the south, targeting command centres, troops, and ammunition depots, according to an update from the Russian defence ministry.

Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the defence ministry, said air-launched missiles hit three command points, 13 areas where troops and Ukrainian military equipment were amassed, as well as four ammunition depots in the Donbas region, the Reuters news agency reported.

In Ukraine's southern region of Mykolaiv, Russian rockets hit a mobile anti-drone system near the settlement of Hannivka, around 100km northeast of Mykolaiv city, Konashenkov said.

The BBC has not been able to confirm this independently.

Authorities in Ukraine's south-eastern Zaporizhzhia region have reported civilian injuries - following Russian missile strikes on a village.

Explosions were said to have woken people up in the middle of the night.

Emergency workers attended the scene, the regional administration posted on the Telegram messaging app.