Europe

VIENNA, May 2. /TASS/. Hungary is against introduction of a ban on Russian oil and gas supplies to the European Union, head of the Prime Minister’s Office Gergely Gulyas said on Monday.

"We should not introduce sanctions from which we will suffer in the first instance, rather than those we would like to subject to sanctions," Gulyas said, cited by the Hungarian information web portal Origo.hu.

(AP) Harrison Jozefowicz quit his job as a Chicago police officer and headed overseas soon after Russia invaded Ukraine. An Army veteran, he said he couldn’t help but join American volunteers seeking to help Ukrainians in their fight.

Jozefowicz now heads a group called Task Force Yankee, which he said has placed more than 190 volunteers in combat slots and other roles while delivering nearly 15,000 first aid kits, helping relocate more than 80 families and helping deliver dozens of pallets of food and medical supplies to the southern and eastern fronts of the war.

ZAPORIZHZHIA, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian civilians holed up inside a steel plant in Mariupol under siege by Russian forces nearly two months began evacuating over the weekend and people sheltering elsewhere in the city were to leave Monday, local officials said.

Video posted online Sunday by Ukrainian forces showed elderly women and mothers with small children climbing over a steep pile of rubble from the sprawling Azovstal steel plant and eventually boarding a bus.

BERLIN, May 1. /TASS/: The German government supports the plans of the European Union (EU) to impose an embargo on oil imports from Russia. During the latest preliminary talks on the sixth package of sanctions against Russia, Berlin spoke in favor of a ban, the DPA news agency reported, citing diplomatic sources in the EU.

MOSCOW, May 1. /TASS/: Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 7,047 over the past day to 18,189,401, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported on Sunday.

In relative terms, it reached 0.04%.

Meanwhile, 1,442 people were hospitalized with COVID-19 in Russia over the past day, 44% fewer than in the previous day. The number of hospitalized patients declined in 70 regions, while in 12 other regions the figure increased.

MOSCOW, May 1. /TASS/: Aviation of the Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed two S-300 missile systems and damaged two warehouses with ammunition and fuel on Ukrainian territory, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Sunday.

MOSCOW, May 1. /TASS/: A fire occurred on the territory of the Russian Defense Ministry’s facility on the border of three municipalities of the Belgorod Region, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported via his Telegram channel on Sunday.

"A fire broke out on the territory of one of the facilities of the Russian Defense Ministry on the border of three municipalities, the Borisovsky and Belgorodsky regions and the Yakovlevsky city district," he wrote.

GENEVA, May 1 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The death and destruction caused by Hurricane Ida in the United States last year has prompted the World Meteorological Organization to remove the name from a rotating list of storm titles.

The UN weather agency said that “Ida” would be replaced by “Imani” after meteorologists determined that the future use of the name could be upsetting.

Hurricane Ida struck the US Gulf Coast as a Category 4 hurricane last August, bringing major flooding and knocking out power to large parts of the heavily populated region.

April 29 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday said there was a big risk that peace talks with Moscow would end and blamed public anger over what he said were atrocities by Russian troops, Interfax Ukraine reported.

"People (Ukrainians) want to kill them. When that kind of attitude exists, it's hard to talk about things," Interfax quoted him as telling Polish journalists.

THE HAGUE, April 30 (Reuters) - Germany has filed a case against Italy at the highest U.N. court because Rome continues to allow victims of Nazi war crimes to claim compensation from the German state even after an earlier ruling that such claims violated international law.

Germany's application to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), published on the court website late on Friday, says Italy continues to allow compensation claims to be brought in domestic courts despite the ICJ's 2012 ruling that this violated Berlin's right to immunity under international law.