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Russia’s missile and drone attack casts more doubt on the U.S.-brokered peace process. Trump’s envoy to Ukraine described the strikes as “shameful” in a post on X.
Russia and Ukraine have exchanged hundreds more prisoners as part of a major swap that amounted to a rare moment of cooperation in otherwise failed efforts to reach a ceasefire.
Russia and Ukraine have completed the first phase of what is expected to be the biggest prisoner exchange since the start of the war, with almost 800 people released on Friday.
The country’s leaders hope that the program will help chase down a demographic they have largely sought to spare from the front lines of the conflict with Russia.
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It was shortly after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 that Sergei and Tatyana Voronkov decided they would leave Russia.The couple, who had long been critical of Vladimir Putin, had condemned the actions of Russia to friends and acquaintances.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman warned that China is observing the international response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to gauge its future treatment towards Taiwan, while
Ukrainian doc from Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozgovyi brings an anthropologist’s eye to how war is lived through, waged and filmed.
The Daily Mail is focusing on what it calls the "first ever NHS rich list" which has been revealed in a new report. It says 512 NHS bosses are being paid salaries higher than the PM's (£172,153), while nearly 300 are on £200,000 or more. The picture is of Liz Hurley with her new "hairy hunk", US country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.