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Russian President Vladimir Putin's government has cracked down heavily on dissent, even before Russia invaded Ukraine in February.BUCHA, Ukraine -- Ukrainian troops moved further north from the capital Kyiv on Saturday, taking up positions in the town of Bucha after retaking territory from Russian forces. AP reporters counted 6 bodies of civilians scattered along a street and in the front yard of a house.
"The information disseminated by the General Staff of Ukraine is absolutely untrue," Transnistria's Foreign Ministry said in a statement, adding that leaders have repeatedly "declared the absence of any threat to Ukraine." Levin, 40, worked as a photojournalist and videographer for many Ukrainian and international publications.
A second post on the state enterprise's channel claimed that explosions and mortar bursts could be heard in the vicinity of the Sovremennik cultural center, where residents held a rally in support of Ukraine. WARSAW, Poland --Poland's government says it has issued over 625,000 national identification numbers to Ukrainian refugees since Russia launched its invasion.
Pawel Szefernaker, a deputy interior minister who was appointed Saturday as a special plenipotentiary to handle Ukrainian war refugees, said at a news conference that 625,000 Ukrainian refugees had received the Polish ID number, known as a PESEL. "Putin is a war criminal," Carla Del Ponte told Swiss newspaper Le Temps in an interview published Saturday.
Other war crimes she identified in Ukraine included attacks on civilians, the destruction of civilian buildings and even that of entire towns.BERLIN -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says a team of nine staffers is trying to get to the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol again after it had to abandon an earlier attempt when conditions on the ground made it impossible to proceed.
Mariupol, which was surrounded by Russian forces a month ago, has been the scene of some of the war's worst attacks, including on a maternity hospital and a theater sheltering civilians. Around 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city, down from a prewar population of 430,000, and facing dire shortages of water, food, fuel and medicine.
Roscosmos chief Dmitry Rogozin implied on Russian state TV that the Western sanctions, some of which predate Russia's military action in Ukraine, could disrupt the operation of Russian spacecraft servicing the ISS. He reiterated his view that "the restoration of normal relations between partners in the ISS and other joint projects is possible only with the complete and unconditional lifting" of sanctions, which he referred to as illegal.
Mariupol, on the Sea of Azov, has seen some of the worst suffering of the war. The International Committee for the Red Cross is attempting to remove some of the 100,000 people are believed to remain in the city. The government took the lead, announcing Saturday that it will turn down the temperature in 200 of its office blocks from 21 to 19 degrees Celsius in the winter and use less air conditioning in the summer.
The mayor said that many Brovary residents had already returned to the city, and that shops and businesses were reopening. Last month alone, Bulgaria expelled 12 Russian diplomats, accused Russia's ambassador to Sofia of "undiplomatic, sharp and rude" comments made in public, and called back its ambassador from Moscow for consultations.BEIJING -- A Chinese diplomat has a suggestion for resolving the Ukraine conflict: U.S.
Beijing has refused to criticize the Russian invasion, or even refer to it as such, opposes sanctions and rebroadcasts Russian misinformation about the conflict and unfounded claims such as that the U.S. is operating bioweapons laboratories in Ukraine.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy declined to comment on whether he ordered an attack on a Russian fuel depot.
But if Moscow's claim is confirmed, it would be the war's first known attack in which Ukrainian aircraft penetrated Russian airspace.WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Defence Department says it is providing an additional US$300 million in military equipment to Ukrainian forces defending the country from Russian troops.
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