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At least 20 civilians have been evacuated from the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in the Black Sea port of Mariupol. Earlier, a Russian missile strike had hit Odesa airport, rendering its runway unusable. Follow FRANCE 24's liveblog for all the latest. All times are in Paris…

The House of Representatives overwhelmingly voted Thursday to reinstate a World War II weapons sharing program to support Ukraine against the continuing Russian invasion. Republican South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson introduced the Ukrainian Democracy Defense Lend Lease Act in February. It is modeled after the Lend Lease Program, which was…

Posted April 28, 2022 at 4:48pm The Biden administration is weighing options for directing tens of billions of dollars in frozen Russian government assets in the United States to the rebuilding of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said Thursday. To do so, however, will likely take an act…

Vladimir Putin will launch an all-out nuclear war on the West rather than accept defeat in Ukraine, Russia's chief propagandists have declared, in just the latest chilling threat coming from Moscow. Margarita Simonyan, editor of state broadcaster RT and one of the Kremlin's highest-profile mouthpieces, declared on TV last night…

World PTI | Boston, April 28 | Updated on: Apr 28, 2022 Nearly half the destructive attacks were against critical infrastructure, many times simultaneous to physical attacks Cyberattacks by state-backed Russian hackers have destroyed data across dozens of organisations in Ukraine and produced “a chaotic information environment,” Microsoft says in…

DJI has temporarily suspended sales and all business activities in both Russia and Ukraine "in light of current hostilities," the dronemaker has announced. As Reuters reports, that makes it the first major Chinese company to halt sales in Russia after the country started its invasion of Ukraine in February. Unlike…

The Save Ukraine Network has just completed the first phase of the Ukraine Chastushka contest.   According to group co-founder Svetlana Shevchenko, "Chastushkas are short poems, popular in both Russia and Ukraine,  consisting of four lines in trochaic tetrameter, which often have a satirical subject matter.    They correspond roughly to…

Ukrainian soldiers stand on an armoured personnel carrier (APC), not far from the front-line with Russian troops, in Izyum district, Kharkiv region on April 18, 2022, during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Anatolii Stepanov / AFPThe push by the United States to send artillery to Ukraine aims to degrade Russian…

By The Visual Journalism Team BBC News Russian forces are continuing to make advances in east of the country but strong resistance from Ukrainian troops is slowing their progress. Here are the latest developments: Russian forces continue to advance around eastern city of IzyumBut strong Ukrainian defences in Donbas region…

Published Apr 25, 2022 5:30AM EDT Credit: REUTERS/ANDREAS GEBERT German commercial vehicle maker Traton's MAN unit restarted production from Monday after a six-week gap caused by supply problems resulting from the war in Ukraine, the company said on Monday. Updates sourcing, adds detail BERLIN, April 25 (Reuters) - German commercial…