🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: More than 4.2 million Ukrainian refugees have now fled the country since the Russian invasion, the United Nations said Monday, adding that the humanitarian situation was worsening
🇷🇺🇺🇦CNN: Ukrainian officials said around 90% of residential buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the strategic port city as a result of intense bombardment.
🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Fox Business: As Kyiv, Ukraine, continues to be pummeled by Russian airstrikes, private businesses across America are sending weapons directly into the war zone. An American gun manufacturer is sending 2,500 piston driven, semi-automatic AR-15 style rifles to Kyiv, helping arm civilians who stayed in the country to fight against the Russians.
🇫🇷France24: A demonstration by thousands of supporters of murdered Corsican nationalist Yvan Colonna on Sunday turned violent amid fears the clashes with police could delay talks between the island's political leaders and the French government.
The clashes involved more than 100 young people -- often hooded and wearing gas masks -- in front of the prefecture in the city of Ajaccio immediately after the arrival a procession of demonstrators, AFP witnessed.
The clashes involved more than 100 young people -- often hooded and wearing gas masks -- in front of the prefecture in the city of Ajaccio immediately after the arrival a procession of demonstrators, AFP witnessed.
🇮🇱Haaretz: Israel's defense establishment estimates that some 200 Israeli Arabs identify with the Islamic State, 20 of whom they believe might carry out attacks in Israel in the organization’s name.
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: Russia's military is "repositioning" to focus its firepower on attempting to conquer a swath of eastern Ukraine after failing to control the whole country, United States National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan tells reporters
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Kyiv Independent: Air raid alerts go off in almost every region of Ukraine
🇨🇳CSIS: To enable its growing space and counterspace capabilities, China operates four spaceports and a family of Long March launch vehicles with a range of sizes and capabilities. In 2021, China conducted 52 successful space launches suffered three space launch failures, and reportedly conducted a non-space test launch of a hypersonic glide vehicle.
🇷🇺🇺🇦Bloomberg: The Pentagon plans to order and send to Ukraine 10 of the newest model Switchblade drones armed with tank-busting warheads in addition to previously announced deliveries of a less powerful version, according to two people familiar with the decision.
The new Switchblade-600 weapons are part of $300 million in lethal military assistance announced by the Pentagon Friday night that will be contracted directly from industry instead of drawn from existing stocks, according to the people, who asked not to identified discussing the plan.
The new Switchblade-600 weapons are part of $300 million in lethal military assistance announced by the Pentagon Friday night that will be contracted directly from industry instead of drawn from existing stocks, according to the people, who asked not to identified discussing the plan.
🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP’s Sergei Supinsky photographs destroyed buildings in the town of Borodianka, northwest of Kyiv on April 4.
🇷🇺🇺🇦The Economist: If negotiations failed, Russia could garrison troops in Donbas for years. Yet if Russia held the territory without a deal, it would find itself locked in a protracted struggle
🇷🇺🇺🇦WSJ: The Czech Republic has been sending old Soviet-era tanks into Ukraine, marking the first time a foreign country has provided tanks to Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began