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EXODUS SWELLS TO MORE THAN 4.5 MILLION AS BATTLE LINES SHIFT


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 * Ukraine’s economy could shrink 45 percent this year, World Bank says
   
   10:03 p.m.

 * Photos: Dueling protests in Germany show support for Russia, Ukraine
   
   8:40 p.m.

 * McCarthy and other members of Congress visit Poland
   
   8:05 p.m.

 * 2,200 detained for alleged evasion of military service, Ukraine says
   
   6:42 p.m.

 * Russian students are turning in teachers who don’t back the war
   
   5:55 p.m.

 * Austin speaks to Ukrainian troops training in U.S.
   
   5:25 p.m.

 * Death toll from strike on train station rises to 57, governor says
   
   4:40 p.m.

 * Despite hurdles, Ukrainians flee eastern Ukraine as Russian offense looms
   
   4:22 p.m.

 * A former boxer turned Kyiv mayor becomes a rousing wartime leader
   
   3:06 p.m.

 * Austrian chancellor will meet with Putin on Monday
   
   2:34 p.m.

 * More than 4.5 million have fled Ukraine, U.N. reports
   
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 * Workers at Chernobyl rotate shifts for first time in three weeks
   
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 * Hundreds of tiny shoes: Protest spotlights child death toll in Ukraine’s
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 * Airport among targets struck in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian official says
   
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 * U.S. exploring when to return diplomats to Kyiv, Sullivan says
   
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 * Death toll from strike on train station rises to 57, governor says
   
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 * Despite hurdles, Ukrainians flee eastern Ukraine as Russian offense looms
   
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Russian strikes destroyed an airport and damaged several civilian targets,
including a school, on Sunday, Ukrainian authorities said, as people continued
to flee eastern Ukraine, joining an exodus that now numbers more than 4.5
million refugees.



Russia’s offensive is proceeding on two primary fronts, according to Ukrainian
officials, after forces shifted initial efforts to take Kyiv: against the
southeastern port city of Mariupol and in Ukraine’s far east, especially the
contested Luhansk region. The governor of the eastern Donetsk region said more
people should be evacuating in anticipation of potential attacks.



Satellite images released by Maxar, a U.S. space technology firm, show that an
eight-mile convoy of Russian military vehicles made its way through eastern
Ukraine on Friday, heading south from the town of Velykyi Burluk.

The refocus to the east, away from the largest cities, could prove a challenge
for Ukraine’s beleaguered forces and an advantage for Russian troops, who Gen.
Mark A. Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted last week are more
skilled at fighting in rural terrain.



Here’s what to know

 * For only the second time since Russian forces seized the site in late
   February, staffers at the Chernobyl plant were able to leave and rotate
   shifts.
 * Ukraine has opened 5,600 war crimes cases since Russia’s invasion, top
   prosecutor Iryna Venediktova said Sunday, but the country will face an uphill
   battle getting Russian officials to court.
 * Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that he spoke to German
   Chancellor Olaf Scholz about sanctions against Russia and Germany’s financial
   and military support for Ukraine. The two “emphasized that all perpetrators
   of war crimes must be identified and punished,” Zelensky said. The Post’s
   Isaac Stanley-Becker explains why the war in Ukraine is a test for the German
   leader.
 * The Washington Post has lifted its paywall for readers in Russia and Ukraine.
   Telegram users can subscribe to our channel for updates.

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UKRAINE’S ECONOMY COULD SHRINK 45 PERCENT THIS YEAR, WORLD BANK SAYS

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The Ukrainian economy is projected to shrink by 45 percent this year, according
to a report from the World Bank, and Russia is expected to lose more than
one-tenth of its economic output.

The report also outlines severe fallout for neighboring countries. Before Russia
invaded Ukraine in February, the World Bank says, the regional economy was
forecast to grow by 3 percent. Now, the region is expected to shrink by 4.1
percent — a hit “twice as large as the pandemic-induced contraction in 2020,”
the international financial group said in a news release.

Recessions are also expected this year in Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova and
Tajikistan, the report says. Russia “is a critical export destination for many
countries in Eastern Europe,” it states, and some Central Asian economies are
hugely reliant on remittances from Russia.

The World Bank — a cooperative of 189 member countries — gives grants, loans and
financial advice to developing countries.

“Ukraine needs massive financial support immediately as it struggles to keep its
economy going and the government running to support Ukrainian citizens who are
suffering and coping with an extreme situation,” Anna Bjerde, the World Bank’s
vice president for Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement.

The war’s effect on food supplies — a source of global concern — could be
especially acute in the region around Ukraine, the World Bank report warns. In
Central Asia and countries around the Caucasus Mountains, roughly three-quarters
of wheat imports are from Russia or Ukraine, the report says.

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PHOTOS: DUELING PROTESTS IN GERMANY SHOW SUPPORT FOR RUSSIA, UKRAINE

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To counter pro-Russian marches in Germany, thousands of people demonstrated
their support for Ukraine in Frankfurt on Sunday, protesting the Kremlin’s
invasion of its neighbor.

About 2,500 pro-Ukrainian demonstrators gathered in Frankfurt on Sunday, Reuters
reported, while about 800 people marched through the city to show their support
for Russia. Similar dueling demonstrations led to skirmishes and arrests in
Hanover, Radio Free Europe reported.



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MCCARTHY AND OTHER MEMBERS OF CONGRESS VISIT POLAND

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and nine other members of
Congress traveled this weekend to Poland, a NATO ally hosting more than 2
million Ukrainians who have sought refuge from Russia’s invasion.

McCarthy’s office said he was joined by Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), six
other GOP House members and two Democrats: Rep. Kathleen Rice (N.Y.) and Rep.
Stephanie Murphy (Fla.).

The delegation met in Warsaw with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, the
Polish defense minister and the U.S. ambassador to Poland, McCarthy’s office
said in a news release. Members of Congress also visited Ukrainians and U.S.
soldiers, it said.

The United Nations estimates that more than 2.5 million Ukrainians have fled to
Poland since Russia’s invasion, out of about 4.6 million Ukrainians displaced
total. President Biden traveled to Warsaw last month to meet with European
leaders, address the humanitarian crisis and signal Western unity against
Russian President Vladimir Putin.

McCarthy said in a statement Sunday that the delegation’s visit “should serve as
a powerful message to Putin that we condemn his unprovoked attacks.”

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2,200 DETAINED FOR ALLEGED EVASION OF MILITARY SERVICE, UKRAINE SAYS

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Nearly 2,200 men accused of evading military service have been detained at the
Ukrainian border, Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs said Sunday.

Early in Russia’s invasion, Ukraine prohibited most men ages 18 to 60 from
leaving the country and announced a mass mobilization of them to fight Kremlin
forces.

In a Facebook post Sunday, the ministry said border guards have caught some
people using fake documents. It also warned that crossing the border outside
checkpoints can be dangerous.

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RUSSIAN STUDENTS ARE TURNING IN TEACHERS WHO DON’T BACK THE WAR

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RIGA, Latvia — When Irina Gen’s students in western Russia asked why a European
sports competition had barred them from attending, the 55-year-old teacher let
loose with a tirade against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. “So long as Russia
doesn’t behave itself in a civilized way, this will go on forever,” she fumed,
adding that she endorsed the European ban. Russia “wanted to get to Kyiv, to
overthrow Zelensky and the government. This is a sovereign state,” she said.
“There’s a sovereign government there.”

Little did she know that her students were recording her outburst and that a
copy would make its way to law enforcement authorities, who opened a criminal
investigation under a new national law banning false information about the
military.

Gen is one of at least four teachers recently turned in by students or parents
for antiwar speech, in some of the starkest examples of the government’s quest
to identify and punish individuals who criticize the invasion. It’s a campaign
with dark Soviet echoes, inspired last month by President Vladimir Putin, who
praised Russians for their ability to identify “scum and traitors” and “spit
them out like a fly.”

“I am convinced that this natural and necessary self-cleansing of society will
only strengthen our country,” Putin said March 16 in a televised speech,
accusing the West of wanting to use a “fifth column” to destroy Russia.

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AUSTIN SPEAKS TO UKRAINIAN TROOPS TRAINING IN U.S.

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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday that he spoke to Ukrainian troops who
have been training in the United States and are about to return home, armed with
knowledge of special weapons included in a recent U.S. aid package.

“I made clear the U.S. will continue to provide them with the assistance they
need,” Austin tweeted, sharing a photo of his video call.

The Ukrainian troops were in Mississippi for a “scheduled professional military
education program” when Russia invaded Feb. 24, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby
said in a statement. American forces have helped train Ukrainian forces for
years, but officials said those programs came to a halt as tension mounted and
Russia’s invasion loomed.

Western countries have been leery of direct involvement in the Ukraine war, even
as they back Ukraine with billions in aid and weapons. White House officials
have worried that training Ukrainians on NATO bases within Russian missile range
raises the risk of Moscow attacking those sites, administration officials
previously told The Post.

Austin told members of Congress last week that Ukrainians would “have to have
training” to use some gear from NATO. Kirby soon confirmed that the United
States was instructing a “very small number of Ukrainian soldiers who were
already in the United States” on how to use Switchblade drones.

U.S. leaders said in March that they would send Ukraine 100 of those
explosive-packed, unmanned aircraft as part of a new aid package.

Sunday was to be the Ukrainian trainees’ last day in the United States, Kirby
said.

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DEATH TOLL FROM STRIKE ON TRAIN STATION RISES TO 57, GOVERNOR SAYS

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Five more people have died from a Friday missile strike on an eastern Ukrainian
train station, the governor of the Donetsk region said Sunday, bringing the
death toll to 57.

At least 109 people were injured in the attack, which Ukraine has blamed on
Russia. Moscow has said the missile belonged to Ukraine.

Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko said people with minor injuries have been released to go
home and that the seriously injured have been taken to safer regions to receive
help.

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DESPITE HURDLES, UKRAINIANS FLEE EASTERN UKRAINE AS RUSSIAN OFFENSE LOOMS

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Ukrainians continued to flee eastern Ukraine through humanitarian corridors
Sunday, though authorities said they were stymied by Russian troops violating
cease-fires and holding up buses at checkpoints.

More than 2,800 people evacuated conflict areas via humanitarian corridors
Sunday, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said — far fewer than
the more than 6,600 who fled conflict zones Friday.

Using personal transport and evacuation buses, 2,622 people arrived in
Zaporizhzhia from Mariupol, Vereshchuk said in a Telegram post. Of them, 213
were residents of Mariupol, a port city that has been under Russian siege for
weeks. The rest lived in cities in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Columns of buses that departed Zaporizhzhia on Sunday morning to evacuate
residents from several cities in southeastern Ukraine are being held by Russian
forces at a checkpoint in Vasylivka, Vereshchuk said.

“However,” she said, “we will continue to break through to our people.”

In the Luhansk region, 202 people were evacuated from five cities despite what
Vereshchuk described as “constant cease-fire violations by the occupiers.” In
all, 2,824 people were evacuated Sunday.

The news came as authorities in Luhansk urged residents to flee amid signs that
Moscow is intensifying its assault on eastern Ukrainian cities. In a post on
Telegram, the Luhansk Regional Military Administration noted that “people are
very intimidated by what the Russians did in Kramatorsk,” referring to a Friday
missile strike on a train station that killed more than 50 people.

But, the post said, people are still encouraged to evacuate.

“Buses are waiting for you every day,” it said.

Pavlo Kyrylenko, governor of the Donetsk region, also in eastern Ukraine, said
the number of people evacuated there had also “decreased somewhat” but that
local leaders were “working on all fronts” to ensure the civilian population is
evacuated.

Annabelle Chapman and Zachary Nelson contributed to this report.

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A FORMER BOXER TURNED KYIV MAYOR BECOMES A ROUSING WARTIME LEADER

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KYIV, Ukraine — The black SUV pulled up to a scene of ruin: A badly damaged
apartment building. A crushed tram car. Blood coating the sidewalk.

Just about an hour earlier, a suspected Russian strike had hit this residential
area in the Ukrainian capital. Vitali Klitschko stepped out of his vehicle and
ducked under the red-and-white tape keeping civilians away from the scene. For a
wartime mayor in a city under siege, it was an all-too-familiar stop.

A decade ago, Klitschko was best known as a legendary boxer and heavyweight
world champion. His nickname was Dr. Ironfist — a nod to both his doctorate in
sports science and his hands the size of dinner plates.

Now he has emerged as an outsize figure in Russia’s war in Ukraine. For more
than six weeks, his city has withstood the imminent threat of Russian takeover,
with him — standing 6 feet 7 inches tall — at its helm.

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AUSTRIAN CHANCELLOR WILL MEET WITH PUTIN ON MONDAY

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Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer announced Sunday that he will meet with
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Monday.

Nehammer wrote on Twitter that Austria is “militarily neutral, but we have a
clear position on the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. It has to
stop!”

“Humanitarian corridors, a cease-fire and full investigation of war crimes are
needed,” he said.

Nehammer said he has informed European partners of the visit, including the
president of the European Commission, Turkey’s president and Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky.

The Austrian chancellor, who has held his position since December, recently
visited Kyiv to speak with Zelensky and traveled to the devastated city of
Bucha, Ukrainian state-run news agency Ukrinform reported.

Nehammer said Austria will help alleviate the humanitarian suffering brought on
by the war.


MORE THAN 4.5 MILLION HAVE FLED UKRAINE, U.N. REPORTS

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More than 4.5 million Ukrainians have fled their country since the Russian
invasion began Feb. 24, according to figures from the United Nations.

Neighboring Poland has received the biggest influx of Ukrainian refugees, taking
in nearly 2.6 million since the war’s start, data from the U.N. High
Commissioner for Refugees shows. Large numbers of Ukrainians have also arrived
in Romania, Hungary and Moldova, each of which have received more than 400,000
refugees.

The exodus from Ukraine has sparked an outpouring of global support, with donors
pledging 9.1 billion euros ($10 billion) for refugees at an event Saturday
convened by Canada and the European Commission.

More than 3.3 million Ukrainians fled the war in March alone, according to UNHCR
data.


WORKERS AT CHERNOBYL ROTATE SHIFTS FOR FIRST TIME IN THREE WEEKS

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For only the second time since Russian forces seized the site in late February,
drained staffers at the abandoned Chernobyl nuclear plant were able to leave and
rotate shifts, according to an update from the International Atomic Energy
Agency.

Rafael Mariano Grossi, director of the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog, said
Ukraine informed the IAEA on Sunday of the prior day’s rotation — the first in
three weeks.

Still, the agency said the situation at the plant remains “far from normal.”

“While it is very positive that Ukrainian authorities are gradually restoring
regulatory control of the Chornobyl site, it is clear that a lot of work remains
to return the site to normality,” Grossi said in a statement.

Before the only other shift change last month, staffers at the plant had been
essentially trapped there while the facility was under the control of Russian
forces.

The IAEA says the Russian military withdrew from the facility March 31.

People there, the agency said in an update, have been working under “extremely
stressful and difficult circumstances during the conflict.” Grossi has stressed
the need for the technical workers at the site to be able to return home and
rest, and he said the rotation was critical for the safe operation of the plant.

The IAEA director also said he is planning a visit to the site to conduct a
radiological assessment.


HUNDREDS OF TINY SHOES: PROTEST SPOTLIGHTS CHILD DEATH TOLL IN UKRAINE’S
MARIUPOL

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Rows of small shoes were placed alongside candles in Helsinki during a protest
Sunday to draw attention to the children killed in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine,
specifically in the battered port city of Mariupol.

There were shiny black boots. Tiny, cozy slippers. Pink and purple sneakers.

In all, there were 210 pairs. They symbolized the total number of young lives
Ukrainian officials said were lost in southeastern city of Mariupol, including
when the Drama Theater — where hundreds of civilians were sheltering — was hit
March 16.

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AIRPORT AMONG TARGETS STRUCK IN DNIPROPETROVSK, UKRAINIAN OFFICIAL SAYS

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An airport in the Dnipropetrovsk region has been destroyed by a Russian strike,
according to a Ukrainian official — among multiple attacks that local officials
reported across the region Sunday, some causing casualties.

Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of Dnipropetrovsk province, said the “attack on
the airport in Dnipro” destroyed the facility and “nearby infrastructure.”

He added: “The missiles keep flying.”

Ukrainian airports and key airfields have been frequent targets since the start
of the Russian invasion in late February, prompting concern at times that the
assaults could deprive Ukraine of usable airstrips.

In early March, airstrikes hit a military air base about 150 miles southwest of
Kyiv, as well as a commercial airport in Vinnytsia, about 70 miles southeast of
the capital. An aircraft repair facility near an airport in Lviv also was struck
last month.




PHOTOS: IMAGES FROM A UKRAINIAN SOLDIER’S FUNERAL

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Getty Images photographer Joe Raedle attended a funeral in Kamianka-Buzka for
Ukrainian soldier Andriy Zagornyakon, who died fighting the Russian invasion.

Photos showing funerals of Ukrainian soldiers have become more and more common
as the war between Ukraine and Russia grinds on. The war has exacted a huge
toll, with hundreds of Ukrainian civilians killed and military losses on both
sides.

Raedle notes in his captions Sunday that “the consensus of foreign governments
is that Russian troop losses have been far greater, with NATO estimating
yesterday that 7,000-15,000 soldiers had been killed in action, with thousands
more wounded.”





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UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS REPORT NEW ATTACKS IN EAST, URGE CIVILIANS TO LEAVE

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Ukrainian officials reported attacks on Sunday in the east, where Russian forces
have refocused their efforts after failing to capture Kyiv.

Oleksiy Arestovich, an adviser to Ukraine’s president, said the Russian
offensive now has two fronts — one in Mariupol, the embattled port city on the
Sea of Azov, and the other in eastern Ukraine, particularly parts of Luhansk,
including Severodonetsk, where local officials said an attack occurred Sunday.

The attack damaged a school, and two residential buildings came under heavy fire
and two elderly residents had to be evacuated, said Luhansk’s governor, Serhiy
Haidai. There were no casualties, he said.

Oleg Sinegubov, the head of the Kharkiv regional administration in northeastern
Ukraine, said on Facebook that Russian troops launched “about 66 artillery and
mortar strikes” on the center of Kharkiv and other areas, wounding nine people.
He said two people were killed and an unknown number injured in an attack on the
city of Derhachi.

Valentyn Reznichenko, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, stretching across
parts of central and eastern Ukraine, said Sunday in a Telegram post that
Russian forces struck targets across the region, wounding one person.

Ukrainian officials and the state railway company announced new evacuation
routes Sunday for civilians in Donetsk and Luhansk, and Haidai urged them to
leave “before it’s too late.”

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Sunday that “all the
routes for the humanitarian corridors in the Luhansk region will work as long as
there is a cease-fire by the occupying Russian troops.”

Haidai said Saturday that an attack on a railway station Friday that killed at
least 52 people and injured 98 could have scared some from seeking out
evacuation routes.

Annabelle Chapman contributed to this report.




SULLIVAN SAYS RUSSIAN ECONOMY ON TRACK TO BE DECIMATED THIS YEAR

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National security adviser Jake Sullivan said the Western campaign to isolate
Russia from the global economy is on track to decimate the country’s gross
domestic product this year.

“If you look at independent projections of the Russian economy, it is likely to
fall by something like 10 to 15 percent this year,” Sullivan said on ABC News’s
“This Week” on Sunday. “It is likely to cease to be one of the world’s major
economies because of the economic pressure we have put on them.”

Goldman Sachs, the Institute of International Finance and other analysts
estimate that Russia’s GDP will contract 10 to 15 percent this year, with more
economic fallout expected in 2023. The United States and other world powers have
been layering sanctions on Russia and oligarchs connected to President Vladimir
Putin in response to the invasion of Ukraine.

Appearing on several Sunday talk shows, Sullivan condemned the apparent killing
of Ukrainian civilians by Russian forces as “war crimes” but stopped short of
calling it a genocide.

“The label is less important than the fact that these acts are cruel and
criminal and wrong and evil and need to be responded to decisively,” Sullivan
said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “And that is what we are doing. And we're
doing that not just by supporting international investigations and gathering
evidence to hold the perpetrators all the way to the highest levels accountable.
We're doing it by providing sophisticated weapons to the Ukrainians that are
making a major difference on the battlefield.”

“Weapons are arriving every day, including today,” Sullivan said on NBC News’s
“Meet the Press.”

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told reporters Wednesday that the images of
Ukrainian civilians killed in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha did not “look far short
of genocide to me.” Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv over the weekend and
walked the streets with President Volodymyr Zelensky.

On ABC, Sullivan added: “We haven’t yet reached a determination on genocide.
That is a determination that we work through systematically. There is a unit at
the State Department that gathers evidence and then makes a legal analysis
because genocide is actually a legal determination.”




‘PUT THE WEAPONS DOWN’: POPE CALLS FOR EASTER TRUCE IN UKRAINE

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Pope Francis called for an “Easter truce” and “peace” in Ukraine during a Palm
Sunday Mass in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.

“Put the weapons down,” he said, according to Reuters, as tens of thousands of
people listened to his address. “Let an Easter truce start. But not to rearm and
resume combat, but a truce to reach peace through real negotiations.”

Francis, who has repeatedly denounced Russia’s invasion but has not directly
referenced Russia or President Vladimir Putin, said the “folly of war” leads
people to commit “senseless acts of cruelty,” the Associated Press reported.

Experts told Reuters that publicly naming and shaming is “not part of the
Vatican’s diplomatic playbook.” Others have pointed to the Vatican’s relations
with the Russian Orthodox Church.

Last month, the mayor of Kyiv invited Francis to visit the Ukrainian capital as
a messenger of peace. During a trip to Malta last week, the pontiff said he had
not ruled out a visit and that it remained “on the table.”




ITALY’S BERLUSCONI CALLS PUTIN’S ATTACK ‘A PITY’; MEXICO SAYS INVASION
UNACCEPTABLE

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Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been a longtime friend of
Russian President Vladimir Putin, praising him as “undoubtedly the number one
among world leaders.” But on Saturday, 85-year-old Berlusconi appeared to put
distance between himself and the 69-year-old Russian leader, saying he was
“deeply disappointed and saddened” by Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, Reuters
reported.

“I got to know him 20 years ago, and he had always seemed to me a man of
democracy and peace. … What a pity,” Berlusconi said, according to a Reuters
translation, in what appeared to be his first public statement since the Feb. 24
invasion. Berlusconi was speaking Saturday at a convention of his conservative
Forza Italia party in Rome.

“The attack on Ukraine, instead of bringing Russia into Europe, has thrown it
into the arms of China. … What a pity, what a pity,” he added.

The disgraced billionaire, media mogul and former Italian leader is facing
bribery charges related to a child prostitution case, after an earlier
conviction of paying for sex with a minor was overturned.

Italy’s current government from the start has sided with the European Union
against Russia. However, like other E.U. members, Italy is dependent on Russian
oil and gas, and it has rejected Moscow’s demands for payment in rubles as
Russia struggles to rebound from Western sanctions.

Other world leaders who had remained mum or publicly neutral on Russia’s
invasion have faced pressure to speak out against Putin. After refusing to join
in on sanctioning Russia, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador on
Saturday said that his government does “not accept” Russia’s justifications for
the invasion.

López Obrador cited Mexico’s own history of Spanish, French and American
invasions as part of his stance, according to Reuters. He spoke in a video
address in conjunction with a global event organized by the E.U. and Canada to
raise money for Ukrainians. Mexico abstained from a vote last week to remove
Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council after earlier supporting a U.N.
resolution calling on Russia to leave Ukraine.




UKRAINE ANNOUNCES 9 HUMANITARIAN CORRIDORS FOR EVACUATIONS

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Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced the opening of nine
humanitarian corridors to help evacuate citizens from hard-hit areas of the
country, including the battered port city of Mariupol.

Vereshchuk said that one of the corridors would stretch from Mariupol to
Zaporizhzhia and that people must travel in private vehicles.

The other routes were from cities in the eastern Zaporizhzhia and Luhansk
regions, Vereshchuk said, adding that some buses would be available. Ukrainian
Railways said on Telegram that “several evacuation trains” would leave from the
cities of Pokrovsk and Slovyansk in the eastern Donetsk region and bring people
to cities farther west, including Lviv, Ternopil, Chernivtsi and Uzhhorod.

Annabelle Chapman in Warsaw contributed to this report.

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UKRAINE OPENS 5,600 WAR CRIMES CASES, PROSECUTOR GENERAL SAYS

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Ukrainian Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova speaks to journalists April 7
near buildings that were destroyed by Russian shelling in Borodyanka, Ukraine.
(Zohra Bensemra/Reuters)

Ukraine has opened 5,600 war crimes cases since Russia’s invasion, top
prosecutor Iryna Venediktova said Sunday, but the country will face an uphill
battle getting Russian officials to court.

Speaking to Sky News, Venediktova called the missile strike that killed more
than 50 people and injured 98 at a train station in Kramatorsk, a city in the
Donetsk region, “absolutely … a war crime.”

Ukraine said the strike Friday was a Russian missile attack that came as
evacuees were waiting to escape an expected onslaught in the region.

“These people just wanted to save their lives, they wanted to be evacuated,”
Venediktova said, adding that the country has “evidence” it was a Russian
strike.

The attack occurred as the scope of devastation elsewhere in Ukraine comes into
grim focus, as Kyiv recaptures more territory and Russian troops shift their
focus to the country’s south and east. Near the capital, haunting images of mass
graves and bound corpses in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha led Western leaders —
including President Biden — to accuse Moscow of committing war crimes in
Ukraine.

Venediktova’s office estimates that Ukraine is drawing on 50,000 investigators
from five different law enforcement agencies to look into possible war crimes,
The Washington Post reported last week. They are conducting interviews in
painstaking detail across the country, documenting evidence that they hope to
use in prosecutions. At the time, the prosecutor general’s office said it had
registered 4,204 individual war crimes, including the deaths of 161 children.

But it’s possible that those who stand accused of war crimes may never see the
inside of a courtroom. In February, the chief prosecutor of the International
Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague said he was opening an investigation into
alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Although the ICC and
the Ukrainian judicial system may each issue indictments, it is typical for the
ICC to prosecute major players and for individual countries to prosecute the
people of lower rank.

“The big question in both cases is how do you actually get your hands on
people,” David Bosco, an associate professor of international studies at Indiana
University who studies war crimes prosecutions, previously told The Post. “All
they can do is issue arrest warrants and have those out there; then the case is
just kind of frozen. It may be that these people who are indicted can simply
remain in Russia beyond the reach of international justice.”

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SATELLITE PHOTOS SHOW 8-MILE RUSSIAN CONVOY EAST OF KHARKIV

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Satellite images show a convoy of Russian armored military vehicles stretching
eight miles along roads 60 miles east of Kharkiv, Ukraine.

The images, taken on Friday and made available by Maxar Technologies, show
hundreds of Russian vehicles passing through the town of Velykyi Burluk.

The convoy appeared to be heading toward Donbas, where large areas are held by
Russian separatists. As Russia shifts its military focus toward the south and
east of the country, officials in Luhansk have urged people to evacuate
immediately, as the surrounding region in eastern Ukraine could face a “very
ugly and very bloody” fight.

Ukraine claimed to have destroyed a Russian convoy overnight on Saturday, but it
is unclear whether officials are referencing the same convoy — or whether any of
those vehicles could be those seen in the satellite images.

“A large column of enemy equipment and manpower heading toward Izyum was
destroyed,” Kharkiv’s military governor, Oleg Sinegubov, said on Telegram. His
claim has not been independently verified. Izyum is about 75 miles south of
Velykyi Burluk.

In recent days, Ukrainian military officials said, the Russians have begun
pushing south from Izyum, with the eventual aim of seizing the city of
Kramatorsk, in the Donetsk region, the site of a shelling attack on a train
station Friday that killed more than 50 people. A push south from the Kharkiv
area and north from the city of Donetsk to encircle the Ukrainian troops in
Donbas would play to Russia’s numerical superiority in terms of tanks and
armored vehicles.




ZELENSKY PRAISES BORIS JOHNSON’S SUPPORT ON SANCTIONS, AID AFTER SURPRISE VISIT

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kyiv on April 9 and met his
Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. (Video: Ukrainian Presidential Press
Service, Photo: Ukrainian Presidential Press Service)

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on leaders of Western democracies
to “follow the example of the United Kingdom” during British Prime Minister
Boris Johnson’s surprise visit to Ukraine on Saturday.

“We have to exert pressure in the form of sanctions, and I’m grateful to the
United Kingdom that continues and intensifies the sanctions and also provides
significant support to Ukraine by reinforcing our defense capacities,” Zelensky
said at a news conference, calling on Western countries to impose an embargo on
Russian energy sources and supply more weapons to Ukraine.

Calling Moscow’s war “inexcusable,” Johnson pledged to intensify sanctions on
Russia, “not just freezing assets in banks and sanctioning oligarchs, but moving
away from the use of Russian hydrocarbons.”

He also promised Britain’s help with clearing mines left behind by Russian
forces and said Britain would liberalize trade with Ukraine.

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EFFORT TO UNCOVER BODIES IN KYIV SUBURBS WILL TAKE WEEKS, OFFICIAL SAYS

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It will take at least two weeks for the bodies of those killed in the recent
attacks near Kyiv to be uncovered from the rubble, Ukrainian Interior Minister
Denis Monastyrsky said, at which point a tally of fatalities can be completed.

“The bodies are being retrieved out from under the ruins,” he said in a
television interview in Ukraine. “It will take at least two more weeks to
unblock the ruins, and this will be only the first stage. Only then will we be
able to name the first number of dead in these settlements.”

Ukrainian officials, civilians and journalists have witnessed the aftermath of
Russia’s attacks on the Kyiv region, particularly in the suburb of Bucha.
Accounts of torture, beheadings and bodies used as booby traps for land mines
have led multiple world leaders, including President Biden, to accuse Russia of
committing war crimes there.

As workers sift through the piles of debris left behind, they have found a slew
of explosives allegedly left by Russian troops, Monastyrsky said. In 24 hours,
he said, more than 6,500 explosive devices were found in doorways, washing
machines, cars or under helmets.

Zina Posen contributed to this report.


PHOTOS: BORIS JOHNSON WALKS STREETS OF KYIV WITH ZELENSKY

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson walked alongside Ukrainian President
Volodymyr Zelensky through the streets of Kyiv, flanked by armed troops, during
a surprise visit on Saturday. Johnson said his unannounced trip to Ukraine was a
show of Britain’s “unwavering support for the people of Ukraine” and pledged
further support for the war effort, including 120 armored vehicles and new
anti-ship missiles.

“We’re setting out a new package of financial & military aid which is a
testament of our commitment to his country’s struggle against Russia’s barbaric
campaign,” Johnson tweeted Saturday as he hailed Ukrainians for facing
aggression with “the courage of a lion.”

The visit was widely covered in the British press. “Brothers in arms,” the
Sunday Times wrote on its front page.







HOW DEBATE ON WEAPONS FOR UKRAINE SHIFTED FROM HELMETS TO TANKS

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Ukrainian officials are clear on what they want from the United States and
Europe: weapons. Big, heavy weapons. Not helmets. Tanks.

They say they need these weapons now, not later. And a lot of them.

The message has been broadly the same from the start of Russia’s invasion, when
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reportedly said “I need ammunition, not a
ride,” to this past week, when Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told NATO leaders
in Brussels that he had a threefold agenda: “weapons, weapons and weapons.”

But in the United States and Europe, the discussions over what types of weapons
to send is far different than it was just six weeks ago.

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RUSSIA HOPES TO BOLSTER TROOPS WITH TRANSNISTRIAN RECRUITS

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Russia is trying to boost its troop numbers in Ukraine by calling on soldiers
discharged over the past decade to reenlist, the British Defense Ministry said.

It also hopes to recruit personnel from the Transnistria region on the
southwestern edge of Ukraine. This ethnically Russian enclave of Moldova
proclaimed independence as the Soviet Union broke up in 1991 but has not been
internationally recognized. There has been a long-standing Russian military
presence in Transnistria.

Russia started its spring military draft on Friday, with plans to call up
134,500 young men to serve in the armed forces. Some fear they could be deployed
to Ukraine, though Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said “conscripts will not be
deployed to any hot spots.”


RUSSIA PUTS ‘WHOLE EUROPEAN PROJECT’ AT RISK, ZELENSKY SAYS AFTER JOHNSON’S
VISIT

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Hours after British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s surprise visit to Kyiv on
Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned in his nightly address
that “the whole European project is a target for Russia” and called on “all
democracies, the whole civilized world” to impose an embargo on Russian oil as a
first step in pushing Moscow toward a peace deal with Kyiv.

“When tyranny launches aggression against everything that keeps peace in Europe,
action must be taken immediately,” he said.

Zelensky praised the show of support from Johnson and other European leaders,
who in recent days have either visited Kyiv or pledged to soon reopen their
embassies in the Ukrainian capital, where aspects of prewar life have resumed
since Russian forces retreated from surrounding suburbs and largely ceased
shelling the city.

But he doubled down on his calls for tighter Western sanctions against Russia
and increased shipments of weapons to bolster the Ukrainian fight. The United
States has banned imports of Russian oil, but Europe, dependent on Russia’s
supply, has remained resistant.

In an address Saturday night, he said Russian oil and gas were the “two sources
of Russian self-confidence, and their sense of impunity.”

“Russia can still afford to live in illusions and bring new military forces and
new equipment to our land,” Zelensky said, according to an English translation
posted to his Telegram account. “And it means that ever more sanctions are
needed. Even more weapons for our state are needed.”

Forty-six days into the war, the Ukrainian leader has ceased to push for a NATO
no-fly zone intended to prevent Russian bombardments on Ukraine, which
Washington and other members of the military alliance have ruled out for fear
that direct conflict between NATO and Russian forces could spark another world
war.


NATO CHIEF: ALLIANCE DEVELOPING PERMANENT MILITARY PRESENCE ON ITS BORDERS

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NATO is working on a plan to have a permanent military presence on its eastern
borders amid concerns over future Russian exploits, according to Secretary
General Jens Stoltenberg.

“What we see now is a new reality, a new normal for European security,” he told
the Telegraph, a British newspaper, in revealing the plans.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has forced a “very fundamental transformation” for
the alliance, he said.

The relatively small existing presence on the alliance’s eastern border would be
replaced with sufficient forces to repel an attempted invasion of members such
as Estonia and Latvia, Stoltenberg told the Telegraph.

Nations that are part of the NATO alliance have resisted direct military action
in Ukraine, so as to avoid direct military conflict with Russia, which could
raise the possibility of nuclear combat. But they have made clear in recent
weeks that any Russian aggression on NATO countries would be met with a swift
response.

Although Russia and Russia-allied leaders have criticized the supplying of
“offensive” weapons to Ukraine, Stoltenberg said “everything Ukraine does with
different types of weapons is defensive.”

“It is about defending themselves against the atrocities, against the invasion,
against a brutal use of military force against their own country,” he said.


INSIDE THE COVERT NETWORK SENDING ARMS AND DRONES TO UKRAINE FORCES

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LVIV, Ukraine — They wait in a secret warehouse on the city’s outskirts,
lounging in a corner hammock or an idle wheelchair as a red van weaves through
small villages and over gravel roads. When it finally pulls into the gated lot,
seven bodies spring into action. The drones are here.

The volunteers unloading the military supplies are friends from the Ukrainian
film and television industry — a longhair bunch of cinematographers, gaffers,
set decorators and marketing strategists. They take dozens of boxes of
self-heating meals, six thermal rifle scopes, a satellite communications kit and
10 drones worth $8,000 each. All are bound for the front.

The paths these vans weave daily from the Polish border to the Lviv warehouse to
places such as Kyiv, Sumy and Kharkiv illustrate a daunting reality for Russian
invaders: The defense of Ukraine has mobilized citizens from every sector of
life, from battle-hardened soldiers who have been at war in Donbas for almost a
decade, to the people who decide the food budgets for Florence and the Machine
music video shoots.

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THE LATEST ON UKRAINE’S KEY BATTLEGROUNDS AND RETAKEN CITIES

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Russian-held areas and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

POL.

Chernihiv

Separatist-

controlled

area

Kyiv

Lviv

Kharkiv

UKRAINE

Mariupol

Odessa

ROMANIA

200 MILES

Control areas as of April 9

Sources: Institute for the Study of War,

AEI’s Critical Threats Project, Post reporting

Russian-held areas

and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

Chernihiv

POLAND

Chernobyl

Kyiv

Sumy

Lviv

Kharkiv

UKRAINE

Separatist-

controlled

area

Odessa

Mariupol

Berdyansk

ROMANIA

Kherson

Sea of

Azov

Crimea

Annexed by Russia

in 2014

100 MILES

Black Sea

Control areas as of April 9

Sources: Institute for the Study of War, AEI's Critical Threats Project, Post
reporting

Russian-held areas

and troop movement

BELARUS

RUSSIA

Chernihiv

POLAND

Chernobyl

Kyiv

Sumy

Lviv

Kharkiv

Separatist-

controlled

area

UKRAINE

Mykolaiv

Mariupol

Berdyansk

Kherson

ROMANIA

Odessa

Sea of

Azov

Kherson

Crimea

Annexed by Russia

in 2014

100 MILES

Black

Sea

Control areas as of April 9

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 * Donbas region: Officials in Luhansk urged people to evacuate immediately, as
   the surrounding separatist region in eastern Ukraine could face a “very ugly
   and very bloody” fight, a senior U.S. defense official told reporters on
   Friday. Russians and Ukrainians are familiar with the terrain, population
   centers and access routes, according to the Pentagon, but the terrain could
   pose challenges for Ukrainian troops while being advantageous for Russian
   troops, which the United States has noted are more skilled in rural combat.
 * Odessa: After an attack Friday on a train station in eastern Ukraine left
   dozens dead, Odessa’s regional government announced a curfew from 9 p.m.
   Saturday to 6 a.m. Monday for residents of the southern port city. Although
   the city has endured relatively few attacks during the war, two missiles
   launched from the Black Sea targeted critical infrastructure in the
   Kirovohrad and Odessa regions, killing no one, the city council reported
   Friday.
 * Kyiv: British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to the
   capital on Saturday in “a show of solidarity with the Ukrainian people,” a
   Downing Street spokeswoman said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
   shared a video on his Telegram channel showing the two men walking down
   largely empty streets in Kyiv and flanked by soldiers.
 * Kyiv region: Since Russian troops left the area, smaller cities near Kyiv
   have reported grim atrocities, including indiscriminate killings and torture.
   Makariv’s mayor, Vadym Tokar, said 132 people were discovered fatally shot
   and 40 percent of the city was destroyed, Ukrainian Pravda reported. European
   Commission President Ursula von der Leyen visited nearby Bucha on Friday and
   witnessed bodies being pulled from a mass grave.
 * Mariupol: Nearly 200 people were evacuated Saturday from the besieged seaside
   city in southeastern Ukraine, Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said.
   Despite Russian claims that its forces have taken the city, Ukrainian forces
   are holding on to control in areas of southwestern and eastern Mariupol, but
   “it is unclear how much longer the Ukrainian defenders can hold out,”
   according to the Institute for the Study of War.
 * Melitopol: More than 500 residents from this southeastern city were evacuated
   Saturday, Vereshchuk said, after a convoy of buses that Ukraine says was
   seized by Russia was let go.
 * Chernihiv: Vladyslav Atroshenko, mayor of the northern Ukrainian city, said
   700 people, both military and civilians, have died there since the Russian
   siege began, the Ukrainian National News Agency reported. He said 40 others
   are missing and presumed dead, and 70 percent of the city’s buildings have
   been destroyed since the start of the war, Euronews reported.


BATTLES FOR UKRAINIANS MAY BE TOUGHER IN WIDE-OPEN TERRAIN OF EAST

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Ukraine is bracing for a new and potentially more challenging phase in its war
to repel Russia’s invasion as the battles shift east to new terrain that could
give more of an advantage to the Russians.

The wide-open spaces will make it harder for the Ukrainians to run guerrilla
operations as they did in the forests of the north and the west and play to
Russia’s ability to muster large mechanized formations of tanks and armored
vehicles.

But much will depend on whether the Russians can rectify the mistakes they made
in the first phase of their invasion, ranging from the failure of supply lines,
logistical challenges and poor planning to using insufficient manpower for the
size of the area they were attempting to seize, analysts say.

That the Ukrainians have not only managed to hold the Russian army at bay but
also forced its troops into a humiliating retreat from the north of the country
is testament to their fighting ability and to the Russians’ poor performance,
experts say.

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UKRAINIANS LEAVE BATTLE-SCARRED EAST AS RUSSIA GEARS UP FOR LONG FIGHT

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DNIPRO, Ukraine — Residents of the beleaguered regions of eastern Ukraine
continued to evacuate Saturday after officials agreed on 10 humanitarian
corridors, as government officials increasingly worry that the next phase of the
war could become a full-scale confrontation not seen in generations.

The governor of Luhansk, a province in eastern Ukraine, Serhiy Haidai, on
Saturday urged residents to immediately leave as more Russian troops arrived and
shelling intensified. But Haidai noted that residents were fearful after a
ballistic missile attack on Friday, suspected to be a Russian airstrike, hit a
train station in the eastern city of Kramatorsk, where thousands of people were
jammed at a train station waiting to leave.

The horrific attack killed more than 50 people as fears rose over dangers facing
civilians as Russian forces regroup to concentrate on capturing southern and
eastern Ukraine. “Compared to other days, there were far fewer people willing,”
Haidai wrote on the Telegram messaging app. “The tragedy affected this.”

Haidi said authorities would continue to try to persuade people to leave. “We
are not stopping,” he said during a Ukrainian television interview. More than
6,600 people fled embattled areas in those regions through humanitarian
corridors on Friday, according to Kyiv, the highest count this week.

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WAR IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The latest: Over the weekend, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Ukrainian
President Volodymyr Zelensky toured the streets of Kyiv and its suburbs that
just days ago were under Russian control or subject to near-constant attacks.
The moment underscored the degree to which battle lines have shifted, as Russia
ramps up its campaign in Ukraine’s east.

The fight: Russian forces continue to mount sporadic attacks on civilian targets
in a number of Ukrainian cities. Ukrainian prosecutors have been taking detailed
testimony from victims to investigate Russian war crimes.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles
and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other
allies. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have
drawn the attention and concern of analysts.

In Russia: Putin has locked down the flow of information within Russia, where
the war isn’t even being called a war. The last independent newsletter in Russia
suspended its operations.

Photos: Post photographers have been on the ground from the very beginning of
the war — here’s some of their most powerful work.

How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian
people as well as what people around the world have been donating.

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