Russia has been ramping up its efforts to strangle Ukraine’s commercial links to the outside world, by launching waves of attacks along the country’s Black Sea coastline.

While there have been Russian attacks on international vessels before, they’ve never been so numerous or so deadly. Ukraine’s port administration says there were 57 Russian attacks on civilian vessels last month. Ukraine’s once bustling ports – such as Odesa, Chornomorsk, and Pivdennyi – are almost devoid of ships.

Ukraine is also targeting shipping in the war, with recent, highly successful attacks on Russian vessels, including sanctioned tankers carrying oil, as well as ships involved in carrying supplies to Russian-occupied Crimea.

Using its own drones, Ukraine has struck around 200 Russian vessels, bringing traffic in the strategic Sea of Azov to a virtual standstill.

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Russia has attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones, killing at least 17 people, as Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said interceptors “could have saved lives”.

In one of the deadliest strikes across Kyiv this year – which started after midnight on Wednesday – at least 44 people were injured after residential buildings, a railway station and warehouses were hit, Zelensky said.

The Russia defence ministry said it had struck logistics hubs and supply centres in Kyiv and the surrounding region.

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Left-wing political outsider Abdul El-Sayed has won Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary.

The former public health official said “In the words of Mohammad Ali, ‘We shook up the world’.”

He will face Republican and Trump ally Mike Rogers, in November’s midterm elections. If elected, El-Sayed would become the first Muslim to serve in the US senate.

But what do we know about him, and what does his victory mean for the Democrats?

In this video:
00:00-01:15 – Intro
01:15-02:37 – Who is Abdul El-Sayed?
02:37-04:07 – Key issues for Michigan voters
04:07-04:38 – Is Michigan a swing state?
04:38-05:20 – Who is Mike Rogers?
05:20-07:40 – The trend of progressive Democrats

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Iran says it has agreed a shipping route with Oman in the Strait of Hormuz that could pave the way for the vital waterway to reopen.

It follows more military threats from US President Donald Trump, if Iran doesn’t agree to a deal for free passage.

Meanwhile, Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they have attacked a Saudi oil tanker in the Red Sea, while Israel has conducted strikes in southern Lebanon, accusing Hezbollah of violating the ceasefire.

And inside Iran, the UN say 56 people have been executed since mid-March on charges relating to national security.

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