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ODIHR on Georgia draft law

A Russian missile strike early on May 2 on Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa wounded 14 people and damaged critical civilian infrastructure, the head of the region's military administration, Oleh Kiper, said on Telegram.

A draft resolution to establish an international day to commemorate the Srebrenica genocide has been sent to the United Nations General Assembly for a vote, Bosnia-Herzegovina's permanent representative to the UN said.

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called for an investigation into footage appearing to show that as many as 21 Ukrainian troops had been executed as or after they surrendered to Russian forces and urged that those responsible be punished for war crimes.

A 24-year-old man from Siberia died in hospital in St. Petersburg after staging a self-immolation action in front of a military recruitment center in Russia's second largest city, medical personnel at the Dzhanelidze hospital said on May 2.

Regional officials and employees of local state entities in Turkmenistan's western region of Balkan have been forced to buy watches with pictures of President Serdar Berdymukhammedov and his father and predecessor, Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, on the face of the timepiece.

Artem Marchevskiy, a close associate of pro-Russia Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, has left Prague for Slovakia after Czech authorities imposed sanctions on him for attempts to carry out "influence operations" for Moscow's benefit on Czech territory.

The new government of Serbia, which includes two politicians who were added to the U.S. sanctions list last year, has been overwhelmingly approved by parliament.

The largest bank in the United States, JPMorgan Chase, said on May 2 its assets in Russia may be seized following lawsuits filed in Russia and the United States

The U.S. Department of Justice said on May 1 that a Ukrainian national was sentenced to 13 years and seven months in prison for over 2,500 ransomware attacks where he demanded more than $700 million in ransom payments.