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Russia changes tactics as US warns of risk of cyber-attacks on Ukraine's allies. Plus, Trump campaign ordered to pay Omarosa Manigault Newman over $1.3m

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Vladimir Putin has ordered Russian forces to blockade the Mariupol steelworks rather than storming the area, after his defence minister admitted thousands of Ukrainian troops continued to resist there.

Facebook posts disputing evidence of alleged war crimes in Bucha have been shared hundreds of thousands of times, analysis by the Institute for Strategic Dialogue has found.

Russian forces are moving towards Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine, British intelligence suggests, while Putin likely wants to demonstrate significant successes" ahead of 9 May Victory Day celebrations.

Russia has fined Google 11m roubles ($137,000) for failing to delete what it called fake" information about the Ukraine war.

What did the memoir say? Among other allegations, Unhinged: An Insider's Account of the Trump White House included the claim that the Trump was a racist" who used the N-word. She also released audio recordings of Trump officials.

Is this the first Trump NDA case? No - the former president has lost other cases, including by a former campaign worker who said he forcibly kissed her.