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The International Monetary Fund is raising concerns about a range of Ukrainian budget measures as the lender begins talks with the war-battered nation on a new four-year loan package.
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov offers face-to-face meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Rubio amid ongoing Ukraine war tensions and diplomatic efforts.
Russia and Ukraine have traded almost daily assaults on each other’s energy infrastructure as U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war make no impact on the battlefield.
KHERSON, Ukraine -- Most of the streets of Kherson are empty now. Three years after the liberation ended a nine-month Russian occupation, the city that once erupted in joy has sunk into a wary stillness — a place where daily life unfolds behind walls or underground.
As Russian forces advanced deeper into the battered Ukrainian stronghold of Pokrovsk this month, figures in Ukraine’s outspoken military and civil society circles pleaded with their leadership: pull back before it is too late.
The attack in Dnipro, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, was part of a large Russian missile and drone barrage across the country that targeted power infrastructure.
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Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,357
A Ukrainian mine explosion killed one person in the village of Bahatyr in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian region of Donetsk, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador-at-Large Rodion Miroshnik said, while persistent Ukrainian drone attacks have forced people to flee the area, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports.
Ukrainian medics are reporting cases of gas gangrene, a condition once closely associated with the trenches of the First World War and long thought to have been all but eradicated in Europe.