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Charles Michel, president of the European Council, arrived in Kyiv, as fighting intensifies in Ukraine's east including Luhanks.

Easter “is meant to be a moment of unity,” Guterres said, adding that hundreds of thousands of lives were at stake. Almost 24,000 Ukrainian refugees — approximately a third of whom are Jewish — have arrived in Israel since the Russian invasion of their country on Feb. 24. Ukraine has received an influx of fighter aircraft and related equipment from other nations to help fuel its efforts to fight the Russian invasion, the Pentagon said. White House press secretary Jen Psaki said last week that there were no plans for Biden to visit. Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky requested lethal arms during an address to South Korean lawmakers. The U.S. ally has also declared it would prohibit transactions with Russian banks and restrict the export of strategic items, such as semiconductors, to Russia. Street fighting and shelling thwarted several attempts at shuttling people out of Mariupol and prevented a Red Cross team from reaching the city to help evacuate civilians this month. “We will do our best to make everything work properly.” “Protect yourselves — go to evacuation transport and leave,” Haidai wrote on Telegram. He listed locations where civilians could board buses to safety. As Russia renews its campaign to take eastern Ukraine, Western strategists said Ukrainians appeared to be launching local “spoiling attacks” in hopes of disrupting the Kremlin’s broader assault. Ukraine is also receiving fighter aircraft from multiple nations, according to the Pentagon. Moscow has sought to capture the strategically important port city for weeks; analysts say Russian officials and media are gathering nearby in hope of declaring victory soon.

With the invading Russian forces thrusting the war into a decisive new phase, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks in his country's east had increased ...

Trudeau said he has been in close contact with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and that Canada is very responsive to what Ukraine needs. Earlier this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said Beijing would continue to strengthen strategic cooperation with Moscow “no matter how the international landscape may change.” NBC News has not verified the claims. The commander of the last remaining Ukrainian troops holding the besieged city of Mariupol has said that his forces are outnumbered and may only have hours to live. He urged no delay in the supply of heavy weapons that Kyiv has said could ultimately decide the fate of the battle for the Donbas — a request that looks set to be met by his allies. Russia pushed for a crucial early victory in its new eastern offensive Wednesday, pressuring the last pocket of Ukrainian resistance in the besieged port city of Mariupol to surrender as its forces sought to advance in the Donbas industrial heartland.

Moscow launched dozens of airstrikes across eastern Ukraine on Tuesday in another round of conflict with Kyiv. The Ukrainian military confirmed the escalation ...

- Confirmed Covid cases in Germany went up by 1.98 lakh. Russia has told the Ukrainian fighters holding out in Mariupol to give up on Wednesday, news agency Reuters reported. “The onslaught and terrible toll on civilians we have seen so far could pale in comparison to the horror that lies ahead. - Apr 20, 2022 08:50 AM IST Kyiv has asked its Western partners to provide MiG-29s, which its pilots already know how to fly and a handful of Eastern European countries have. - Apr 20, 2022 09:24 AM IST - Apr 20, 2022 10:23 AM IST - Apr 20, 2022 11:52 AM IST "In the heart of a free and democratic Europe. This includes President Putin's two adult daughters," Global Affairs said in a statement. The West and Kyiv accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of unprovoked aggression. A senior US official said the latest offensive was the prelude to a much larger assault.

President Biden will send weapons that Ukraine's president has long asked for to defend against an escalating Russian offensive to capture the east of the ...

And the men’s and women’s tour events in Moscow later this season were canceled, as well as a number of lower-tier events in Russia and Belarus. The International Tennis Federation also announced the suspension of the Russian Tennis Federation and Belarusian Tennis Federation from I.T.F. membership. “But if that happens, which is again part of the overall strategy of making Russia and Russian citizens pay the consequence for the decision their government has made, then it won’t be something that we support.” “Waging war in the barbarian way that Russia is gives them a certain advantage in urban warfare,” he said. It cannot just be a sanction against 90 percent of the Russian people and 10 percent not.” The family has tried to keep her from the television, on which all Ukrainian programming has been replaced by a stream of Russian propaganda. After the war began in February, professional tennis organizers were quick to bar the Russians and their Belarusian allies from team events like the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup, both of which were won by Russian teams in 2021. Her grandmother, a skilled cook who loves to bake pies with cherries, apples and plums from her garden, has repeatedly tried to prepare elaborate meals, not realizing the family needed to ration dwindling supplies of food. For Ms. Boichak’s grandparents, who are in their late 80s, childhood memories of being forced to flee amid Soviet shelling made them all the more attached to their home, and her grandfather is determined to stay despite their children and grandchildren’s pleas, she said. Dementia in particular is a “hidden” disability that can result in patients being left out of humanitarian assistance or protection from responders, according to Alzheimer’s Disease International, an umbrella organization for groups around the world. On Tuesday night, a soldier who gave his name as Gasim but would not confirm he was in the plant, told a New York Times reporter that “as we’re talking to you, they’re firing on us from the air, dropping bombs.” Before long, the war, the fear and the reassurance will dissipate into the fog of dementia — as have all new memories in recent years. Russia’s new offensive — and the ability of Ukraine’s trench-based forces in the Donbas region to fend it off — is expected to rely on long-range missiles, howitzers and armed drones.

Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages were advancing in what Ukrainian officials have called the Battle of the Donbas. Meanwhile, ...

Ukraine informed the Vienna-based UN nuclear watchdog on March 10 that it had lost direct contact with the plant, the site of the 1986 disaster. Russia Ukraine War Crisis Live: Based on the data collected by the agency, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) on Wednesday said that more than five million people have fled Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion, news agency Reuters reported. Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for a four-day halt in fighting in Ukraine, starting Thursday to coincide with Orthodox Christians’ Holy Week observances.

A new “defensive” focus in Ukraine could free more Russian forces for an attack on an Eastern European NATO country. In short, Russia still has the capability ...

The goal of these steps by the United States and NATO would be to emphasize to Russia the nuclear implications of an attack on a NATO country without taking steps that could cross a Russian “red line” and provoke it. On the other hand, a state could enact a “maximum brinkmanship” strategy that generates high risk for nuclear war in the event of a conflict, but that high risk could generate restraint on the part of the adversary. At the same time, the use of tactical nuclear weapons generates a higher risk of general nuclear conflict than does the use of conventional forces, meaning that threats to use tactical nuclear weapons early in a war increase the shared risk of disaster. Tyler Bowen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Kissinger Center at Johns Hopkins SAIS. His research focuses on the dynamics of nuclear crisis bargaining and the implications of those dynamics for U.S. grand strategy. The United States and NATO can enhance their impact by changing the Nuclear Posture Review and the Deterrence and Defence Posture Review to stress that they reserve the ability to use nuclear weapons first. A state could employ a “minimal brinkmanship” strategy that generates low risk of nuclear use, and if the state lacks the conventional strength to deny the adversary its objectives in a war, this could incentivize the adversary to attack. He may be incentivized to do this if the economic sanctions prove too harsh on the Russian economy, and he sees no way out of the crisis except by expanding the war. In response to this challenge, the United States and NATO should embrace the paradox of brinkmanship, which involves trying to prevent war by making it hard to contain once it starts. This could be why the first phase of the Russian invasion used only a fraction of the 190,000-strong force it amassed around Ukraine. The United States and NATO should expect that a Russian attack on a NATO country would have different assumptions and go differently, perhaps with Russia using many more of its forces in the opening phase of the campaign. In short, Russia still has the capability to conduct strikes against NATO allies and to turn the focus of its combat power on them should it choose to do so. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, European NATO allies are now likely to increase investments in their armed forces that could make a successful conventional defense possible in the future. In the intervening “ window of vulnerability,” the American extended nuclear deterrent and NATO’s tactical nuclear weapons will form the backbone of European security.

How Putin's thugs could gain the upper hand in the east: Military expert JUSTIN BRONK fears Russian tanks and artillery will have the edge in open terrain ...

The second potential Russian advantage is local control of the air. Whereas the terrain the north of Ukraine is largely forests, towns and cities, Donbas has far more large open spaces. The third advantage that Russian forces will have in the Donbas compared to in the previous phase of the invasion is better coordination and potentially logistics support. Light infantry with shoulder-fired weapons are ideal for defending forested or urban areas, but in the more open terrain of the Donbas the heavy armour and artillery of Russian forces are more suitable and easier to use effectively. Both Ukrainian and Russian officials have declared that the next critical phase of the war is now underway. Mr Bronk added that one of the key remaining questions now is whether Russia can successfully concentrate enough of the forces it has assembled in the Donbas against key Ukrainian strongpoints.

Regional official says Ukrainian troops withdraw from the town after Russian attack 'from all sides'.

Russia, which launched what it calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine on February 24, denies targeting civilians. We have official statistics – about 200 dead – but in reality there are many more,” he said, without making clear what period the estimated death toll covered. Ministry Spokesperson Oleksandr Motuznyak said Russian forces were attacking along the entire front line in eastern Ukraine, pressing their siege of Mariupol in the south and trying to encircle cities in the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukraine’s Ministry of Defence said earlier on Tuesday that the aim of Russia’s new military offensive in the east is to grab land, establish an overground link between territories in the east and Crimea, and crush Ukraine’s armed forces. In an intelligence update, the ministry said “Russia’s ability to progress continues to be impacted by the environmental, logistical and technical challenges” as well as “the resilience of the highly-motivated Ukrainian armed forces”. Russian forces have seized the town of Kreminna in eastern Ukraine and Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from it, according to the regional governor.

The deadline of a Russian ultimatum demanding the surrender of Ukrainian forces in Mariupol has passed with no sign that the troops have complied.

You can also get in touch in the following ways: But Ms Vereshchuk said Moscow has agreed to allow 6,000 people to evacuate the city on Wednesday. If it is safe for you to do so, please tell us about it by emailing: [email protected]. Despite this, and the vicious nature of the Russian siege, Ukraine's defence ministry said not a single soldier surrendered when a similar ultimatum lapsed on Monday. An advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia is targeting the defenders with bunker busters - colossal bombs designed to penetrate thick armour and kill targets underground. It may be our last one ever".

The interim US ambassador to the UK, Philip Reeker, told Kay Burley on Sky News that Vladimir Putin has "miscalculated terribly" over his invasion of ...

"We see now in the east as he moves again on the Donbas, what is really brutal. So I would very much hope that it will not happen. "Putin himself has raised this. On whether Mr Putin is capable of a nuclear strike, Mr Reeker said: "What we need to do is maintain the unity of our alliance in terms of defending our interests and supporting Ukraine in their efforts to protect their sovereignty, their independence and their very lives. The interim US ambassador to the UK, Philip Reeker, told Kay Burley on Sky News that President Putin is "very unpredictable, has been out of touch, and has miscalculated terribly" over his invasion of Ukraine. Russia's nuclear capability is "concerning" and cannot be ruled out as Vladimir Putin launched the war on Ukraine to "keep himself in power", experts have said.

The British Ministry of Defence says fighting is intensifying in Ukraine's Donbas “as Russian forces seek to break through Ukrainian defences”. Diplomacy.

No Ukrainian fighters responded to a similar call on Tuesday, Russia said. - Russia called on Ukrainian troops at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol to surrender, saying its troops will observe a ceasefire while the proposal is in effect. - Oleg Tinkov, a Russian billionairesanctioned by the Westover the Ukraine war, has denounced Moscow’s “massacre” in its neighbouring country and called on Western leaders to help end this “crazy” conflict. - The British Ministry of Defence says fighting is intensifying in Ukraine’s Donbas “as Russian forces seek to break through Ukrainian defences”. - Russia also tried unsuccessfully to storm the towns of Rubizhne and Sievierodonetsk in the eastern Ukrainian region of Luhansk, the Ukrainian General Staff of the Armed Forces has said. - Russia handed over 60 soldiers and 16 civilians to Ukraine in the fifth such exchange of prisoners of war, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister said.

Ukraine said it had so far held off an assault by thousands of Russian troops attempting to advance in what Kyiv calls the Battle of the Donbas, a new campaign ...

Once a prosperous port of 400,000 people, Mariupol has been reduced to a blasted wasteland with corpses in the streets and residents confined to cellars. Mr Putin says Ukraine mistreated Russian speakers in the Donbas, an accusation Kyiv rejects. The Kremlin accused Kyiv of delaying negotiations and changing its position. Russia has been trying to take full control of Mariupol since the war’s early days. Its capture would be a big strategic prize, linking territory held by pro-Russian separatists in the east with the Crimea region that Moscow annexed in 2014. Russia’s nearly eight-week-long invasion has failed to capture any of Ukraine’s largest cities.