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Top StoriesU.N. Shifts Aid East in Ukraine, Plans Convoys to Rebel Areas
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Ukraine President Calls for More Russia Sanctions, Invokes Greek Battle Cry
Date: April 7, 2022
ATHENS (Reuters) -Ukraine’s president urged Europe to take a stronger stand against Russia in a video address to Greece’s parliament on Thursday that invoked the battle cry of 19th century Greek patriots in the Black Sea port of Odesa. Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Mariupol, another port on Ukraine’s coast where thousands of ethic Greeks live, had...
U.N. To Vote on Suspending Russia From Human Rights Body
Date: April 7, 2022
By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -The United Nations General Assembly will vote on Thursday on a U.S. push to suspend Russia from the U.N. Human Rights Council over reports of “gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights” by invading Russian troops in Ukraine. A two-thirds majority of voting members – abstentions do...
Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Tells U.N. ‘accountability Must Be Inevitable’
Date: April 5, 2022
By Michelle Nichols, Humeyra Pamuk and Doina Chiacu UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the United Nations Security Council that “accountability must be inevitable” for Russia as he accused Russian troops of committing “the most terrible war crimes” since World War Two. Zelenskiy showed a short video of burned, bloodied and mutilated bodies,...
Zelenskiy Says Russian Actions in Ukraine Make Negotiations Harder
Date: April 4, 2022
By Marko Djurica BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday it had become harder for Ukraine to negotiate with Russia since Kyiv became aware of the scale of atrocities carried out by Russian troops in Ukraine. Zelenskiy spoke on national television from the town of Bucha in the Kyiv region, where tied bodies...
Global Outcry at “war Crime” Killings Near Kyiv as Frontline Shifts
Date: April 4, 2022
(Adds details of situation in Mariupol, fighting) By Marko Djurica and Abdelaziz Boumzar BUCHA, Ukraine (Reuters) – Global outrage spread on Monday at civilian killings in north Ukraine where a mass grave and tied bodies shot at close range were found in a town taken back from Russian troops, as Moscow shifted the focus of...
Why Putin Faces “more Nato” in the Arctic After Ukraine Invasion
Date: April 4, 2022
By Robin Emmott, Essi Lehto and Simon Johnson BARDUFOSS, Norway (Reuters) – The sound of gunfire echoed around the Norwegian fjords as a row of Swedish and Finnish soldiers, positioned prone behind banks of snow, trained rifles and missile launchers on nearby hills ready for an enemy attack. The drill, in March, was the first...