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Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

"A poison dey run through our democracy... Inside di town of Dobropillia for Donetsk, di shockwave from one strike on Saturday blow for di windows of one apartment building and leave a large hollow in di yard. Biden hail di courage of journalists wey dey cover di Russian invasion of Ukraine inside comments for di White House Correspondents' Association dinner inside Washington. Palamar say Russia and Ukraine dey respect one local ceasefire, and he hope say di evacuated civilians dem go move dem go di Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia to di northwest. Ukraine and di West say Russia launch one unprovoked war of aggression. Di United States and dia European friends don impose sweeping punishment on Russia economy and dey supply Ukraine with weapons and humanitarian support. President Zelenskiy say Russia dey "gather additional forces for new attacks against our military in di east of di knori" and dey "try to increase pressure inside Donbas". Moscow call dia actions a "special operation" to disarm Ukraine and clear am of anti-Russian nationalism wey dey provoked by di West. Moscow assault inside di south aim na partly to link di area with Crimea as dem dey push for complete control of Ukraine eastern Donbas region. "We dey get civilians out of di wreckage with ropes - ina di elderly, women and children." Moscow don turn dia focus to Ukraine south and east afta dem fail to capture di capital Kyiv inside one nine-week assault. Ukraine shelling kill and injure e own civilians inside di southern region of Kherson, Russia claim on Sunday.

Nancy Pelosi visited Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky. Russian-occupied Kherson faces new restrictions.

But 47 percent disapprove, identical to February. The improvement is due primarily to a drop in the percentage of people who had no opinion two months ago. The expanded artillery battle follows Russia’s failed effort to rapidly seize Ukraine’s major population centers, including the capital, Kyiv. It comes as the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his Western benefactors brace for what is expected to be a grinding campaign in the Donbas region. Ukraine says the alleged thefts could lead to food shortages. Mariupol: Civilian evacuations are expected to continue Sunday from a steel plant that has become a final battlefield and shelter for Ukrainian fighters and residents in this strategic port city. The regional governor of Kharkiv said battles raged around Izyum as Russian forces fought to advance. “Our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done.” “We plan to introduce the ruble zone [to provide] assistance, first of all, to pensioners, socially unprotected segments of the population and, of course, state employees,” Stremousov said in an interview with the Rossiya 24 TV channel. Speaking to Russian state television, Kirill Stremousov, a pro-Moscow politician installed after the city fell, said there would be a four-to-five-month transition away from the Ukrainian currency, the hryvnia, which has been in use since 1996. There are not enough alternatives in the near term to avoid major economic pain in the coming winter if Russia shuts down supply. Spoke with— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) @SecBlinken. Grateful to the U.S. for keeping the promise to stand by Ukraine resolutely. He added that the pair “discussed the Administration’s April 28 request to Congress for $33 billion in security, economic, and humanitarian aid to empower Ukraine to defeat the Kremlin’s unconscionable war.” Blinken spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba “to follow up on their April 24 meeting in Kyiv,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said Saturday in a statement.

'We Can Only Be Enemies'. One family's experience of Vladimir Putin's invasion offers a path to the end of the war. By Peter Pomerantsev.

Russians might claim they don’t need the West, but at the end of the day, the goods that those Russian soldiers were so keen to ransack in Ukraine were largely Western-made. Irina seemed to believe that all she had done was survive, but in reality she and her family had done far more. All it needs is for people to stop pulling their weight, because they can see that the government is no longer competent or acting in their interests. I met with him alongside Jeffrey Goldberg and Anne Applebaum to interview him for The Atlantic, and when I told him I was born in Kyiv, he spoke to me without ever breaking eye contact—he had found his common ground with me. As they walked through what little was left of the Horbonoses’ lives, the soldiers apologized for all the destruction they had brought. Even for the legions of Russians who buy into the conspiracy theories—that their country is under threat from the U.S., that Russia deserves an empire—there is the issue of whether the Kremlin is competent enough to pursue such ambitions. When the Russians would leave the cellar for a drink or a smoke, they would invite Sergey to join them. Three others were in their 40s—two had served in Syria; one’s face had been burned when a vehicle he was in detonated a mine on the way to Lukashivka, and he would curse as he rubbed his face with ointment. “What’s the point of this war?” Despondently, the Russians would answer that they had come expecting not a fight but a celebration. All four of them were from Siberia. The fifth was also in his 40s, a Tatar, an ethnic group with its own large republic in central Russia. The others found his incessant singing of Tatar tunes annoying, and would tease him for his apparent cowardice, because he always seemed to be the first to scamper into the cellar when artillery barrages began. The Horbonoses—Irina, 55; Sergey, 59; and their 25-year-old son, Nikita—spent the next night in a neighbor’s cellar, but it was so wet and cold that they returned to theirs. At first, the Horbonoses were too scared to talk to their Russian housemates.

Russia's defense ministry said it had carried out a missile strike on a military airfield near Odesa, destroying a runway and a hangar containing weapons ...

Russian forces carried out missile strikes across the south and east on Saturday, Ukrainian officials said. Reuters could not immediately verify reports of shelling in the area. Zelenskyy said in a late-night video address on Saturday that Russia was “gathering additional forces for new attacks against our military in the east of the country” and “trying to increase pressure in the Donbas.” She condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “diabolic invasion.” Ukraine’s military said in a bulletin on Sunday that Russian forces were fighting to break beyond Kherson’s administrative borders and prepare the way for attacks on the cities of Mykolayiv and Kryvyi Rih. Russia’s defense ministry said on Sunday it had carried out a missile strike on a military airfield near the port city of Odesa, destroying a runway and a hangar containing weapons and ammunition supplied to Ukraine by the United States and European countries.