Putin Russian Ukraine war

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Ukraine-Russia War: Live Updates (The New York Times)

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine harangued his allies to find the will to take harsher measures against Moscow, as the European Union prepared Thursday ...

The Ukrainian soldiers are wrapping up their impromptu drone training at a military base in the southern United States that officials would not identify for security reasons. But Pentagon officials said the small, portable kamikaze drones could prove to be a more cost-effective and elusive weapon against Russian armored convoys. The Pentagon announced last month it was sending 100 Switchblade drones to Ukraine as part of a $800 million military aid package to Ukraine. More are on the way. To solve them quickly and in a principled fashion,” he said. Zelensky welcomed new sanctions against Russia and applied more pressure on his allies to stop importing Russian oil. They would not succeed in hiding evidence, he said, “because they killed a lot. Kalush Orchestra performed their Eurovision entry, “Stefania,” Saturday at a town square in Lviv in western Ukraine for the first time since the war. Ukraine last won with the singer Jamala’s 2016 song “1944,” which references Soviet abuses in Crimea under Stalin, just two years after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia annexed Crimea. “We want to show the world community Ukrainian music, our spirit and how unbreakable we are. Even though contest rules expressly bar political speech, gestures or lyrics, Russia’s war in Ukraine is very much becoming a factor in the shindig that last year was viewed by 183 million people worldwide. The process reflected the challenges of reaching agreement among all 27 member nations on the penalties, which would also include banning Russian ships from E.U. ports. Russia has appeared to move closer to default on its foreign debt because of U.S. currency restrictions.

Russia-Ukraine war live updates: Ukrainian foreign minister to ... (NBC News)

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has joined NATO foreign ministers in Brussels for a summit on the response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

He said that over 15,000 people had already fled from Lozova and Barvinkove in southern Kharkiv. “Three artillery shelling in Balakliya killed three people and destroyed many houses,” he said. In a Telegram post he said, “During the day, the enemy inflicted 48 strikes with MLRS, artillery and mortars,” which destroyed civilian infrastructure. Additional corridors from Melitopol and Berdyansk will be facilitated by buses, Vereshchuk said. Speaking alongside NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg ahead of the talks, he said his agenda was "very simple. Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has joined NATO foreign ministers in Brussels for a summit Thursday on the response to Russia's invasion. I want to see my husband. The Australian government has announced financial sanctions and travel bans on a further 67 Russians in response to Moscow's invasion of Ukraine. The latest round of sanctions comes after what the country's government said was the emergence of evidence of war crimes committed by Russia in the town of Bucha and other cities around capital Kyiv. “I am afraid,” said Kalinina, 39, who is from Kyiv. “But I very much want to go home. In an intelligence update it said that Russian aerial attacks continued along the Donbas line of control in the east, adding that strikes in the interior were likely intended to “degrade the ability of Ukrainian military to resupply” and to pressure the government. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has joined NATO foreign ministers in Brussels for a summit on the response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Russia-Ukraine war: What happened today (April 7) (NPR)

As Thursday draws to a close in Kyiv and in Moscow, here are the key developments of the day: Ukrainian officials are urging residents of the eastern ...

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Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 44 of the invasion (The Guardian)

The Kremlin admits suffering 'significant losses', Russia is kicked off the UN human rights council and Zelenskiy calls for 'bolder' sanctions.

Soldiers fighting forUkraineappear to shoot a Russian prisoner of war outside a village west of Kyiv in a video posted online. The investigative newspaper had suspended publishing until the end of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after Russia’s communications regulator warned them to cease their reporting. German intelligence agencies have intercepted radio messages from Russian soldiers discussing the killings of civilians in Ukraine, according to reports. Ukraine is bracing for a renewed Russian offensive on its eastern front, as Russian forces withdraw from the shattered outskirts of Kyiv to regroup and intensify their attacks across the Donbas region. In a joint statement,ministers spoke of “haunting” photographs of mutilated bodies, The Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, said he hoped the besieged city of Mariupolwould be “liberated from nationalistic battalions” sooner rather than later.

Who is actually winning the Russia-Ukraine war? (India Today)

Russia's invasion has pushed Zelenskyy deeper into the embrace of the West that has ensured Ukraine is more weaponised. This is what Putin was most upset ...

For Putin, Mariupol stands in the way of his objective. Such scenes are not uncommon now in this war that has sparked the worst refugee crisis in Europe since World War II. A wrecked Russian tank lay in the demolished town centre of Trostyanets in north-eastern Ukraine after Ukrainian forces expelled Russian troops from the town. But let's play devil's advocate for a bit. But his mightier military was widely expected to force Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s troops to surrender “soon”. Let's go region by region.

Ukraine war: Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov denies war crimes ... (Sky News)

In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, Dmitry Peskov denied atrocities had taken place, said NATO was confrontational, accused Boris Johnson of not ...

"Everything is about mutual deterring and should one side - and we consider NATO to be one side - be more powerful than the other, especially in terms of nuclear arms, then it will be considered a threat for the whole architecture of security and it will take us to take additional measures," he said. Mr Peskov said Mariupol is part of the "Luhansk people's republic", which Russia recognises as a separate state, and claimed troops were there "to assist those people who were suffering for eight years from heavy shelling from Ukraine". Put to Mr Peskov that NATO is now stronger not weaker due to the invasion, he said: "We have to rebalance the situation and we have to take additional measures to ensure our own security because we're deeply convinced that NATO is a machine for confrontation, it's not a peaceful alliance. And in the first hint the Kremlin wants to see an end to the war - although in what form is unknown - he said: "Our military are doing their best to bring an end to that operation. He told Sky News' Mark Austin that "we're living in days of fakes and lies" and verified photos and satellite images of dead civilians in the streets of Ukrainian cities were a "bold fake". In a wide-ranging interview with Sky News, Dmitry Peskov denied atrocities had taken place, said NATO was confrontational, accused Boris Johnson of not being "constructive" and said Russia is trying to bring the war to an end soon.

Timeline: Week six of Russia's war in Ukraine (Aljazeera.com)

Ukraine's leader addresses Russian citizens as Russian attacks intensify in Ukraine's eastern regions. The mother of Ukrainian soldier Lubomyr Hudzeliak, who ...

Russia recognised South Ossetia as an independent state after it fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008. Some corpses are next to what look like impact craters. Ukraine does not confirm the attack. US President Joe Biden calls for Putin to stand a war crimes tribunal for the alleged Russian killings of civilians in Bucha. Reuters reporters find a 15m-long trench in the vicinity of the Church of St Andrew in Bucha, which had begun to be used as a mass grave. Human Rights Watch says it has verified and documented war crimes by Russian occupying forces in the areas of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv, in northern Ukraine. Eye witnesses to the Russian incursion in Bucha tell Al Jazeera the civilians have been shot dead by Russian troops. As Russian troops withdraw from Bucha, a town northwest of Kyiv, dozens of corpses in civilian clothes are found on the streets. It says Russian soldiers received “significant doses” of radiation after digging trenches in contaminated soil in the forest surrounding the plant, which was the scene of a nuclear meltdown in 1986. “Everyone in Russia who will not demand an end to this shameful war and the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine has no future,” he said in an address. Putin decrees that “unfriendly” buyers of Russian gas – meaning countries that have imposed sanctions on Russia for its war in Ukraine – must pay in roubles for a third of that gas. Kyiv’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Russian shelling of the capital has intensified following a Russian pledge to redeploy forces to the eastern Donbas region.