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UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Western nations should not lift sanctions on Moscow until all Russian troops leave Ukraine. · President Vladimir Putin has ...

“We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy has been crippled by sanctions because his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.” The latest round of negotiations was held in Turkey this week. “We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership,” Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, told reporters during a news briefing. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been misled by his advisers about the Russian military’s performance in Ukraine, the White House has said. “For this humanitarian operation to succeed, we propose to carry it out with the direct participation of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] and the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC],” the ministry statement said. “We don’t believe anyone, not a single beautiful phrase,” Zelenskyy said in a video address to the nation, adding that Russian troops were regrouping to strike the eastern Donbas region. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny.” Bociurkiw, a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine, was speaking after Russia announced it would implement a ceasefire on Thursday to allow for civilian evacuations from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he does not trust Russian promises to scale back military activity and that the Ukrainian military was getting ready for further fighting in the country’s east. “We’ve seen Russian soldiers – short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,” Fleming said in a speech in Canberra at the Australian National University, according to a transcript of his remarks. The head of the United Kingdom’s spy agency has said new intelligence shows that some Russian soldiers in Ukraine had refused to carry out orders. “If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation.

Also: International Red Cross in Ukraine says it is a victim of a disinformation campaign.

Next to Milena, Sasha, an 11-year-old boy, also from Mariupol, sits with a large white bandage on his nose, the legacy of a rocket strike that hit as he was playing with friends. It then moved to a destructive attack in which a malicious software update distributed across the network rendered tens of thousands of modems across Europe inoperable by overwriting their internal memory, Viasat said. The attack caused a major loss in communications in Ukraine in the early hours of Russia’s invasion, top Ukrainian cybersecurity official Victor Zhora told reporters earlier this month. The Black Sea is a major shipping route for grain, oil and oil products. The attack affected users from Poland to France and knocked off remote access to thousands of wind turbines in Central Europe. The ruble had fallen as low as roughly 150 to the dollar on March 7, when news emerged that the Biden administration would ban U.S. imports of Russian oil and gas. Talked about specific defensive support, a new package of enhanced sanctions, macro-financial and humanitarian aid,” Zelensky wrote in a post on Twitter. The organization said it works with all sides in conflict zones to help those in need and always remains neutral. Refiners in India, the world’s third biggest oil importer and consumer, have been snapping up Russian oil through spot tenders since the war broke out on Feb. 24, taking advantage of deep discounts as other buyers back away. It’s a monetary defence Putin may not be able to sustain as long-term sanctions weigh down the Russian economy. And the Ukrainian Canadian Congress has written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau asking him to raise concerns about the Rostov-on-Don office and question how donations to the Canadian Red Cross are being spent in Ukraine. More than 3,000 people, including representatives from dozens of Ukrainian humanitarian organizations, have signed an open letter to Mr. Maurer calling on his organization to do more to stop forced evacuations and work more effectively with local volunteers.

As some remove references to Russia from business names, others say it's unfair to blame all Russians for Ukraine war.

“I wouldn’t want to go in there if they didn’t change the name,” Khrystyna Vosylyshyn, who co-owns a nearby clothing store and has family in western Ukraine, told Al Jazeera. “I’ve seen people actually stand and look at the sign, and just cry,” Rakhman said. “Russia is not Putin,” another protester declared as the crowd cheered. In an interview with Al Jazeera, he added, “I felt it was just more representative to call it ‘Russian-speaking’, so that there are no questions about the affiliations.” Earlier this month, at a Ukraine solidarity protest on the Brighton Beach boardwalk, several attendees draped themselves in an amended Russian flag, with stripes of white, blue and white. While they are united by their shared Russian language, many have distanced themselves from the politics back home.

Russian forces bombarded areas around Kyiv and another city just hours after pledging to scale back military operations in those places to help move peace ...

If Ukraine makes good on its offer, he said, "the threat of creating a NATO bridgehead on the Ukrainian territory will be removed." "We know that this is not a withdrawal but the consequences of being driven out," he said of Russia's pledge. Western officials say Moscow is reinforcing its troops in the Donbas. It would drop its bid to join NATO, as Moscow has long demanded, in return for security guarantees from a group of other nations. Separatists blamed Ukrainian forces for the attack. He thanked the United States for an additional $500 million in aid announced Wednesday, but he also said Ukraine needs more help to resist the Russian invasion. — the window glass popped, the frames came off. "If we really are fighting for freedom and in defence of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny," Zelensky said in his nightly video address to the nation, which he delivered standing in the dark outside the dimly lit presidential offices in Kyiv. Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Maj.-Gen. Igor Konashenkov said the military also targeted fuel depots in two towns in central Ukraine with air-launched long-range cruise missiles. An estimated 6.5 million people have also been displaced from their homes within Ukraine. Bullets in children's bodies, shrapnels in children's legs, heads and ribs."

The Pentagon said about a fifth of Russian forces around Kyiv have been moving north from the Ukrainian capital toward Belarus, but they are believed to be en ...

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Russia's pledge to cut back its military activity in the north is greeted with widespread scepticism, as Volodymyr Zelenskiy says signs from talks are ...

The UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said in its latest updated that “it is almost certain that the Russian offensive has failed in its objective to encircle Kyiv”. Moscow’s lead negotiator, Vladimir Medinsky, said Russia’s promise to “drastically reduce” military operations does not represent a ceasefire. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said the talks had been “positive but they do not drown out the explosions of Russian shells”, adding that Ukraine had no intention of reducing its military efforts.

Ukrainian forces seize back control of Kyiv suburb of Irpin, northeastern town of Trostyanets, officials say. What questions do you have about Russia's assault ...

Russian forces have taken control of the decommissioned Chornobyl plant, site in 1986 of the world's worst nuclear accident, and of the active Zaporizhzhia plant, where a building was damaged in fighting. Russia doesn't have the forces to encircle the city. Russia has dismissed the allegations as fanciful. Even as negotiators gathered, Putin's forces blasted a gaping hole in a nine-storey government administration building in a strike on the southern port city of Mykolaiv, killing at least 12 people, emergency authorities said. Rob Lee, a military expert at the U.S.-based Foreign Policy Research Institute, tweeted of the Russian announcement: "This sounds like more of an acknowledgement of the situation around Kyiv where Russia's advance has been stalled for weeks and Ukrainian forces have had recent successes. This sounds like more of an acknowledgement of the situation around Kyiv where Russia's advance has been stalled for weeks and Ukrainian forces have had recent successes. U.S. President Joe Biden, asked whether the Russian announcement was a sign of progress in the talks or an attempt by Moscow to buy time to continue its assault, said: "We'll see. Western officials say Moscow is reinforcing troops in the Donbas in a bid to encircle Ukraine's forces. I'm lucky." Earlier talks were held in person in Belarus or by video. "It's terrible. He did not immediately spell out what that would mean in practical terms.

But Ukraine's military says the Russian pledge is likely aimed at misleading its forces, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Kyiv will not reduce its “ ...

“It’s an attack on the core international principles that underpin peace and security and prosperity everywhere.” And so, you can only assume the devastation that this is going to have on our operations alone.” Russian Colonel General Mikhail Mizintsev reaffirmed on Tuesday that “the threat of Ukrainian mines drifting along the coastline of Black Sea states remains”. It said it would also be willing to hold talks over a 15-year period on the future of the Crimean peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014. “We will do everything to stop using Russian oil by the end of this year.” “Of course, we see all the risks. “More than 70 people were forcibly removed from Maternity Hospital No 2 in the Left Bank district – it’s medical staff and patients.” Russian forces have taken control of Chernobyl and the Zaporizhzhia power plant, the largest in Europe. In#Zaporozhyeregion, #Russianservicemen kidnapped Ukrainian journalist Irina Dubchenko, head of the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine said. Moscow says one of the aims of its military campaign is to “liberate” largely Russian-speaking places such as Mariupol. “But let’s be absolutely clear, it’s not the objective of the UK government, and it’s very, very important that everybody gets this. It denies targeting civilians and has not commented on the incident in Mykolaiv.