KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine is proposing to Russia a pause in attacks on each other’s energy infrastructure over the Orthodox Easter holiday, which will be observed this coming weekend, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. The offer was made through the United States, which has been mediating talks between delegations from Moscow and Kyiv.
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Russia and China on Tuesday vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz that had been repeatedly watered down in hopes those two countries would abstain. The vote was 11-2, with two abstentions from Pakistan and Colombia.
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AP) – Cameroon said on Monday that Russia has confirmed the deaths of 16 soldiers in Ukraine, according to a memo addressed to the Russian Embassy in the central African country. The country’s foreign affairs ministry acknowledged the death of 16 Cameroonian soldiers serving in the special military operations zone in Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – A Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa killed two women and a toddler, authorities said Monday, while Ukrainian long-range drones targeted Russia’s key Black Sea port for oil exports.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – As night falls over a nature park on the edge of Kyiv, children crowd around volunteers who carefully open cloth bags and release bats into the twilight.
FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Swedish authorities have released a tanker sanctioned by the European Union that had been boarded and detained on suspicion of causing an oil spill in the Baltic Sea. The Swedish Coast Guard said they had not found sufficient evidence that the Flora 1 tanker was at fault for the 12-kilometer (8-mile) -long spill that had been discovered Thursday.
ISTANBUL (AP) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed concern that a prolonged U.S.-Israeli war on Iran could further erode America’s support for Ukraine as Washington’s global priorities shift and Kyiv braces for reduced deliveries of critically needed Patriot air defense missiles.
GILCHING, Germany — Two years ago, Anastasia, a 35-year-old Ukrainian IT worker, fled her hometown of Zaporizhzhya, leaving behind her mother and sister to seek out work in Germany. Russia's all-out war on Ukraine had compelled her to leave her job in the southeastern Ukrainian city beset by routine electricity outages, not to mention regular bombardments.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia and Ukraine traded deadly strikes overnight and on Saturday morning, killing 10 people and wounding several dozen more, officials on both sides said Saturday. The attacks came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy traveled to Istanbul for talks with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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