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Russia's invasion of Ukraine, after a shift away from efforts to take Kyiv, is proceeding primarily on two fronts, Ukrainian officials said Sunday.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The moment underscored the degree to which battle lines have shifted, as Russia ramps up its campaign in Ukraine’s east. During a trip to Malta last week, the pontiff said he had not ruled out a visit and that it remained “on the table.” “Put the weapons down,” he said, according to Reuters, as tens of thousands of people listened to his address. There are up to 100,000 civilians still in the battered port city, after a Russian siege lasting more than month. And we're doing that not just by supporting international investigations and gathering evidence to hold the perpetrators all the way to the highest levels accountable. Goldman Sachs, the Institute of International Finance and other analysts estimate that Russia’s GDP will contract 10 to 15 percent this year, with more economic fallout expected in 2023. On Friday, a missile hit the Kramatorsk train station, killing at least 52 civilians as hundreds tried to flee eastern Ukraine. He said two people were killed and an unknown number injured in an attack on the city of Derhachi. The war has exacted a huge toll, with hundreds of Ukrainian civilians killed and military losses on both sides. In the meantime, though, Margaret, the United States is surging resources, weapons, military equipment — but also diplomatic resources — to support the Ukrainians.” “Well, we’re working through when we will be in a position to set our diplomatic presence back up in Kyiv,” Sullivan said on CBS. “That’s a judgment that gets worked through our security professionals.

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But while the EU banned the import of Russian coal on Friday, and a number of European governments, including France, Italy, Poland and the Baltics are on board with further sanctions, Germany has repeatedly ruled out an immediate embargo on Russian gas imports, as has Hungary, both citing negative economic consequences for their citizens. Earlier this week an overwhelming majority of European lawmakers demanded an “immediate full embargo” on Russian oil, gas and coal. Calls to add Russian oil and gas to Western sanctions have grown louder as atrocities committed by Russian troops in the area around Kyiv have shocked the world.

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The second is to broadcast daily and loudly — in every way we can — that the world is at war “with Putin” and “not with the Russian people” — just the opposite of what Putin is telling them. The first is to support the Ukrainians with diplomacy if they want to negotiate with Putin — it’s their call — but also to support them with the best weaponry and training if they want to drive the Russian Army off every inch of their territory. The Times is committed to publishing a diversity of letters to the editor. What is also necessary, though, is that America be a model of democracy and sustainability that others want to emulate. Instead, his invasion has made Ukrainians — even some formerly pro-Russia Ukrainians — bitter enemies of Russia for at least a generation and supercharged Ukraine’s desire to be independent of Russia and embedded in the European Union. But it will not be easy because Putin, an ex-K.G.B. officer — surrounded by many other former intelligence officers who are beholden to him — is nearly impossible to dislodge. Second, he’s doubling down on systematic cruelty — the continued pummeling of Ukrainian towns with rockets and artillery to keep creating as many casualties and refugees and as much economic ruin as he can. He clearly hopes that the former will fracture the Ukrainian Army, at least in the east, and the latter will fracture NATO, as its member states get overwhelmed by so many refugees and pressure Kyiv to give Putin whatever he wants to get him to stop. And it promises only to get worse before it gets better, because Putin is now like a cornered animal. The answer is that we don’t know. How does the world have any effective global initiative to combat climate change and not be able to collaborate with the biggest landmass country on the planet? How does the world have an effective U.N. with a country led by a war criminal on the Security Council, who can veto every resolution?

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“We will see how effective that proves to be,” the European official said. But it could also potentially lead Russian forces to commit more atrocities, as allegedly happened in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha while under Russian occupation. The city fell to Syrian government forces in December 2016.

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India imports about 1 to 2 percent of its energy from Russia and about 10 percent from the United States, Psaki said. The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. Boychenko also accused Russian forces of using mobile crematoriums to incinerate the bodies and of preventing humanitarian convoys from entering the city. Last week, Washington Post reporters witnessed the grim scenes of devastation in Borodyanka as residents surveyed the damage after Russian forces withdrew from the area in early April. No building there had been untouched: Residential buildings were stripped bare, windows were blown out and debris lined the neighborhoods. Six times as many cars were on the road last week as the week before, according to police officials. “Canada has always and will always stand by Ukraine,” Joly said in a statement. Moscow’s troops made “territorial gains” in the city this weekend, according to the Institute for the Study of War, a U.S.-based think tank. According to Reuters, about 30,000 Ukrainians refugees had arrived in France as of March 27. “We are aware of social media reports which claim Russian forces deployed a potential chemical munition in Mariupol, Ukraine,” Kirby said in a statement. According to its official website, the chateau — which was built in 1453 — has a chapel, stables, private apartments and a guard room. The actions of the French people had restored their faith in humanity, Ukrainians said. Donbas — a large swath of the country’s easternmost territory, stretching from the Luhansk oblast south to Mariupol — has been the site of fierce fighting.

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“Reports that Russian forces may have used chemical agents in an attack on the people of Mariupol. We are working urgently with partners to verify details. "It is possible that the discharge of an unknown chemical is a test for the reaction in general. "In any case, the announcement of the use of chemical weapons made by the occupier is not so simple," Andryushchenko said.

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It simply needs to secure equal rights and representations in a genuinely progressive multipolar international system that safeguards its democratic and economic interests as enshrined in the Constitutive Act of the AU. Be that as it may, Africa should focus on establishing a world order that is defined by strong, independent and democratic multilateral institutions. In this context, it may seem understandable for Africa to support the multipolar world order Russia claims to be building with the help of China. However, Beijing and Moscow are not calling for any reform that would diminish the enormous sway they readily have over world affairs. And while its pursuit of permanent representation on the UNSC is an extremely praiseworthy and essential exercise, it has gradually turned into an expedient and intermittently expressed soundbite. Africa too has grave concerns about the current global order, and has long been calling for the UN to undergo substantial reform to address the deep-rooted injustices in its handling of international affairs. It has also frequently targeted intellectuals, civil rights activists and journalists and moved to restrict LGBTQ and women’s rights. Despite Israel’s countless, well-documented human rights and international law violations, decades-long illegal occupation of Palestinian territories, and apartheid policies against the Palestinian population, the US has blocked 53 United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions critical of Israel in the last five decades. Lavrov’s sentiments echoed Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s February 4 joint statement announcing the beginning of a new era in international relations. Elections have been turned into a sham and private enterprise has been all but killed. For example, Washington has sanctioned Zimbabwe’s government – and rightfully so – for committing gross human rights abuses, but continues to support the equally repressive Ugandan government with military hardware, cash and training. On March 30, just a day after a Russian missile hit an administrative building in the port city of Mykolaiv in southern Ukraine, killing at least 12 people, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made the case for the establishment of new world order. In 2005, for instance, the African Union (AU) adopted the Ezulwini Consensus, calling for a more representative and democratic UNSC, in which Africa, like all other world regions, is represented.

Estonia, as well as Latvia and Lithuania, have populations that embody the tense geopolitics currently at play with Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

“I myself read news once a day to try to get a whole picture — Russia says this, Ukraine says that, the U.S. says this — and maybe after that, I can understand something, but I’m not sure.” “We have also seen a massive campaign of Russia with regard to disinformation and misinformation, and, of course, our Russian-speaking community follows a lot of Russian news,” Liimets said. “Let’s not fool ourselves,” he said, asserting that some governments in the West were mistaken to insist that Putin’s views did not reflect those of the greater Russian population. In the U.S., that would amount to more than 6 million refugees. The Latvian Parliament, meanwhile, is considering bills that would suspend issuing temporary residence permits to citizens of Russia and Belarus until July 2023. The war in Ukraine increasingly worries some officials in the Baltic states that Russian speakers could be marks for disinformation and thus threats to national security. They still had tourist visas from a recent visit and wiped their social media accounts and phones of any material that might be deemed opposition to Putin or the war in Ukraine. Edgars Rinkēvičs, the Latvian foreign minister, said in an interview last week that the government is keeping a close eye on the situation. While Estonian government officials do not fear Russia as an immediate military threat, they remain clear-eyed that Moscow could be a major risk to its national security and that Russia’s expansionist plans may not end in Ukraine. Some also believe the group could be manipulated by Moscow — and the propaganda that is broadcast across borders — to become unwitting agents in the new Cold War that’s beginning to take shape. Estonia, as well as the neighboring Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania, have populations that reflect that mix and the tense geopolitics. That’s apparent even in the architecture: Hard-edged brutalist buildings of the Soviet era house or sit between sushi restaurants, a German grocer and a startup incubator.

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We have to support the refugees in Ukraine, but also very important we have to financially support Ukraine," she said. "I have 100% confidence in our people and in our armed forces, but unfortunately I do not have the confidence we will be receiving everything we need." "They had been told they were going to have a glorious victory and just ride into Kyiv without any opposition with the Ukrainians welcoming them," Sullivan said. That's led to "broad-scale war crimes" across the Eastern European nation. In a statement released Sunday, Psaki said Biden will talk in the meeting about how Russia's war on Ukraine is destabilizing the global food supply and commodity markets. "We are militarily neutral, but [have] a clear position on the Russian war of aggression against #Ukraine. It must stop! So, it is an extraordinary way to shape the country and to go down the path towards the European Union." The Switchblades, dubbed "kamikaze" drones, are equipped with cameras, navigation systems and guided explosives. "This is an extraordinary situation where extraordinary measures have to be done. "They are in an extraordinary situation, where we have to take unusual steps." The process normally takes years, but she has said Ukraine's application could take just weeks to consider. The SS-21 is a Russian-made mobile, short-range, single-warhead ballistic missile with a warhead payload of about 1,000 pounds.

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Russian forces will likely continue to struggle to establish coherent and efficient command and control arrangements for the foreseeable future." That doesn't mean the coming weeks will be easy for Ukrainian forces fighting in the east. The city fell to Syrian government forces in December 2016. Before the invasion, Russia had arrayed approximately 120 battalion tactical groups around Ukraine. According to one European official, about a quarter of those forces are "effectively inoperable" after heavy casualties and the destruction of hardware. Russian units that have fought in Ukraine have taken fearful damage." "The situation is gradually heating up in Donbas, and we understand that April will be quite hot," Filatov said recently.

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Borrell said E.U. foreign ministers would discuss the “brutal aggression of the Russian troops” and how to respond. The World Bank also emphasized that support to countries hosting refugees fleeing the war "will be critical." It did not identify the country by name, but Slovakia announced Friday that it had donated its S-300 air defense system to Ukraine. Team members are "experts in crime scenes and victim identification," the announcement said. Kirby appeared to be responding to a single Telegram message from Azov, an ultra-nationalist faction of the Ukrainian National Guard that's often described as a regiment or battalion. He recounted seeing a 4-year-old shot twice in the stomach while fleeing with his family, who is expected to live. The Russian Embassy, which had the tall apartment blocks built in the 1970s, has been refusing court orders to pay the lease or to hand it over. He said two-thirds of the children in Ukraine have been displaced. Kara-Murza, a well-known critic of Putin, survived what he said was his second poisoning in 2017. “Please know that getting her home safely continues to be our top priority and while we are facing an extraordinarily complex challenge, there is strength in community, especially the WNBA.” “I clearly told him that his attitude toward war is in no way even remotely shared,” Nehammer said at a news conference, adding that it is an invasion, according to Reuters. NBC News has not verified the numbers of deaths.

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In a statement after the meeting, Nehammer said the discussion with Putin was "very direct, open and tough." "We have massive indications of war crimes," Baerbock said ahead of a meeting with European ministers in Luxembourg, Reuters reported. For Ukraine, the World Bank report estimates that over half of the country's businesses are closed, while others still open are operating at well under normal capacity. The threat to children in Ukraine extends far beyond death and injury, Fontaine noted. It is a regime of murderers, and it is important to say it out loud," Kara-Murza said. He called it "tragic" that "it took a large-scale war in the middle of Europe, which Vladimir Putin is now conducting against Ukraine, for most western leaders to finally open their eyes to the true nature of this regime." We hope that the ongoing discussions between Russia and Ukraine will lead to peace." The affected areas include Saltivka, Pyatihatky, Kholodna Hora, Pisochyn, Zolochiv, Balakliya and Derhachi. The reason for this is that New Delhi relies upon Moscow for military hardware and for oil. That figure, updated as of April 10, includes 1,793 deaths and 2,439 injuries. Kara-Murza, a survivor of two suspected poisoning attempts, condemned the Kremlin in a CNN video that aired earlier Monday. Those attempted advances threaten Ukraine's entire southern coastline and its outlet to the sea.

Ukraine's president has warned that Russian troops 'will move to even larger operations in the east'.

It will propose a “Repower EU” plan in May. It also called on Russia to immediately stop its war in Ukraine and occupation of Georgia. We condemn Russia for organizing unlawful elections in the occupied parts of Georgia. They will have no legal implications. I’m no longer interested in their diplomacy that leads to the destruction of my country,” Zelenskyy said, after being asked about his outburst at NATO and the UN Security Council when he told the UNSC it should punish Russia or “dissolve itself”. The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development also announced an additional billion euros ($1.088bn) in loans. “I remember, all of us remember, books about the second world war, and about the devil in uniform – Adolf Hitler. Are those countries who did not participate in the war responsible? So, I’m afraid in the next days, the war will increase on the Donbas” he told reporters before a meeting of EU ministers in Luxembourg. “Of course we will sue, because we have taken all the necessary steps to ensure that investors receive their payments,” Anton Siluanov said. Finland and Sweden are poised to join NATO within the coming months, The Times has reported, citing US officials. NATO said on March 24 that Moscow lost up to 15,000 soldiers in Ukraine. The model also projects that global trade growth this year could be cut almost in half from the 4.7 percent the WTO forecasted last October to between 2.4 percent and three percent,” the Geneva-based organisation said. “Russia will go into default, full default, very shortly and be out of international capital markets for a decade.