Russian forces mass in the east\u003B Pope Francis said a potential trip to the Ukrainian capital \u0027on the table\u0027
As Russia’s forces regrouped for battles in the east, areas north of Kyiv were littered with destroyed Russian tanks. Ukraine presidential adviser Okeksiy Arestovych said its troops have retaken more than 30 towns and villages since Russia pulled back from the area this week.
A call between Chinese President Xi and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is just a matter a time, according to a Chinese diplomat, a day after Xi spoke at an EU-China virtual summit. Pope Francis is considering a trip to Kyiv, and aimed some pointed criticism at Russia’s war.
Russia offered this week to “fundamentally cut back” military operations in northern Ukraine and Ukraine’s military has been taking back territory around Kyiv.Ukrainian officials said that while Russian forces have left the former nuclear power plant at Chernobyl, the situation in the off-limits highly radioactive zone around the site is “unclear,” the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said.
Levin, 40, who went missing in the conflict area on March 13, had worked with Reuters, BBC, TRT World, Associated Press, Hromadske and LB.ua, according to the statement. He’s survived by four sons, his wife and parents, according to LB.ua.Lithuania’s government said it would no longer import gas from Russia over its demand to be paid in rubles.
Military units remain in their permanent deployments, the foreign ministry said, adding that “even planned activities” have been minimized to de-escalate tensions, and that about 25,000 Ukrainian refugees are in the territory. “We have noted the redeployment of Russian troops and units of the so-called Transnistrian-Moldovan Republic in order to prepare for a demonstration of readiness for the offensive and, possibly, hostilities against Ukraine,” according to an operational update from Ukraine’s ministry of defense.
And with Russian forces massing in Donbas to the east, Zelenskyy said Ukraine is preparing a more active defense. “I emphasize once again: hard battles lie ahead.” Zelenskyy adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter that Russia’s refocus on Ukraine’s east and south heightened the need for “heavy weapons” to be provided.A man drives a car past the rubble of a destroyed building in the eastern Ukraine city of Kharkiv on April 2.
The U.K. said Ukraine has also secured a key route in eastern Kharkhiv after heavy fighting following the recapture of Trostyanets, in the vicinity of Sumy, earlier this week.Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich owns or is linked to five yachts with an estimated value of close to $1 billion, the Financial Times reported.
The transfers will begin soon, the official told the Times while declining to say how many tanks would be sent or from which countries they will come. The White House and the Defense Department didn’t respond to requests for comment.Article content The Defense Department will start a contracting process to procure the new equipment, rather than drawing down from U.S. defense stock. The Pentagon for the first time has disclosed on record it is supplying the Switchblade. It’s also sending the Puma, a hand-launched reconnaissance drone, and providing the Ukrainian military access to commercial imagery likely to include Russian military positions.Article contentZelenskyy called on President Joe Biden and other U.S.
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