President Zelenskyy has named 7 countries who are ready to discuss an international agreement on security guarantees for Ukraine. So far, United States, UK, Turkey, Poland, Germany, France and Israel are willing to discuss security guarantees.
China has expressed its firm opposition to the U.S. approval of an arms deal with Taiwan worth $95 million and pledged to take firm and forceful measures to resolutely safeguard its sovereignty and security interests.
23-year-old Nazar Nebozhenskyi, who saved 20 fellow soldiers by drawing fire from 3 Russian BTRs to himself and destroying 2 of them, being mortally wounded in the process.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov admitted Russia has suffered “significant losses of troops” during its invasion of Ukraine and claimed in an interview with British media that Russia’s pullback from Kyiv and Chernihiv was “an act of goodwill” to help with peace talks between Russia and Ukraine.
Dmitry Muratov was spotted on a train and attacked with red paint. Why? Because he is editor of the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta that was shut down because of its criticism of the Ukraine war.
The male attacker shouted, "Muratov, this is for our boys," he said.
Australia will send 20 Bushmaster armoured vehicles worth $50m to Ukraine following a direct request from president Volodymyr Zelenskiy during his address to parliament last week. The Bushmasters, which include two ambulance variants, will leave Brisbane for Europe on C-17 Globemasters this morning (Friday)
Indigenous Australians strategically burn land in a practice known as cool burning, in which fires move slowly, burn only the undergrowth and remove the buildup of fuel that feeds bigger blazes. The Nawarddeken people of West Arnhem Land hand been practising controlled cool burns for thousands of years and see fire as a tool to manage their 1.39m-hectare homeland. Photograph: Matthew Abbott, Australia for National Georgraphic/Panos Pictures/World Press Photo 2022
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People lay down during a "die-in" protest outside of the Reichstag building, depicting the posture of civilians found dead in the streets of the Ukraine town of Bucha in Berlin, Germany, April 6. A banner reads "Silence kills. We demand actions". REUTERS/Christian Mang
Dublin, Ireland
Conor McGregor leaves Blanchardstown Court. A judge has given McGregor 11 weeks to decide how to plead to motoring offences and dangerous driving in Dublin. Photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire
Ukrainian servicemen stand next to a fragment of a Tochka-U missile with a writing in Russian “For our children” after Russian shelling at the railway station in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Friday, 8 April, 2022. Photograph: Andriy Andriyenko/AP
People’s belongings are seen at Kramatorsk railway station after a rocket attack Photograph: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Russians knew that the train station in Kramatorsk was full of civilians waiting to be evacuated. Yet they stroke it with a ballistic missile, killing at least 30 and injuring at least a hundred people
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is delaying a final decision over whether to give Ukraine high-end tanks for its battle against Russia, despite pressure from several other top officials. It comes amid a growing acceptance in Berlin and other Western capitals that Russia’s war in Ukraine could drag on for months or years.
1st April, 2022 New York Times — Plagued by poor morale as well as fuel and food shortages, some Russian troops in Ukraine have surrendered en masse or sabotaged their own vehicles to avoid fighting, a senior Pentagon official said on Tuesday.
Some entire Russian units have laid down their arms without a fight after confronting a surprisingly stiff Ukrainian defense, the official said. A significant number of the Russian troops are young conscripts who are poorly trained and ill-prepared for the all-out assault. And in some cases, Russian troops have deliberately punched holes in their vehicles’ gas tanks, presumably to avoid combat, the official said............................
The former head of Goldman Sachs in Malaysia has been convicted for helping to orchestrate one of the world's biggest financial corruption scandals. A US jury found Roger Ng guilty of looting billions of dollars from Malaysia’s 1MDB sovereign wealth fund. He is the only Goldman Sachs banker to face a jury over the scandal.
In six weeks, so much has changed. The long convoy got bogged down and destroyed. The Russians retreated. The war is far from over, but the Ukrainians won the battle of Kyiv. The first battle. There could be another........
Bucha, Ukraine
People react after a mass grave is exhumed by local authorities as they attempt to identify the bodies of civilians who had died during the Russian occupation in Bucha.
Photograph: Wolfgang Schwan/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images
Bucha, Ukraine
Vladyslava Liubarets walks with her family past destroyed Russian military hardware in Bucha to meet her sister whom she has not seen since the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Photograph: Felipe Dana/AP
Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants take part in a rally to celebrate the shooting attacks in Israel, in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. Reuters.
April 7, 2022: First responders tend to a woman in the aftermath of a shooting attack at a cafe in Dizengoff Street in the centre of Israel's Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv. At least two people were killed and several wounded during an attack in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv on April 7, a hospital said. It is the latest incident among a surge of violence in Israel and the West Bank since late March.
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