If you missed it before, a clip of Boris Johnson expressing his hope that Ukraine can host the Eurovision Song Contest next year.
Ukraine won this year’s competition, but organizers of the occasion said the 2023 edition could take a stand in the war-torn country.
Here are the latest photographs of Ukraine as fighting intensifies in the east of the country.
Three Russian missiles destroyed a fuel depot in the eastern Ukrainian city of Novomoskovsk, the head of the regional administration said in an online message.
Valentyn Reznichenko posted a photo of what he described as a chimney in the warehouse.
Novomoskovsk is just northeast of Dnipro, the regional capital.
Reznichenko later said 11 other people were injured and one in critical condition.
It may take a decade for the Russian economy to overcome the crushing sanctions imposed on the country following its invasion of Ukraine, according to a senior banking official.
Returning to pre-sanctions levels may take only about 10 years, as the country remains isolated from some of its trade, said German Gref, head of Sberbank, Russia’s largest bank.
Gref estimated that the countries that severed ties with Russia were for 56% of their exports and 51% of their imports, crippling the economy.
“This is a risk to 15% of the country’s gross domestic product, the maximum of the economy is fire,” said Director-General Gref, speaking at Russia’s annual International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg.
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Former British Army intelligence colonel and NATO planner Philip Ingram provides his research of the Donbass region of Ukraine.
Ukraine’s Defense Intelligence Directorate announced that five Ukrainian civilians have been returned as part of a five-prisoner-for-five exchange with Russia.
He did specify whether the Russians exchanged were fighters.
The leadership said four of the five Ukrainian civilians were taken prisoner in parts of the Kyiv region by Russia, from where Russian forces withdrew last March.
He added that the framework of a Ukrainian civilian was discovered the exchange.
The Lithuanian government has said that from today a ban on the transit of goods subject to EU sanctions from its territory to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad will come into force.
News of the ban came via a video posted by the region’s governor, Anton Alikhanov.
EU sanctions fear coal, metals, building fabrics and complex technologies.
Alikhanov said the ban would protect about 50 percent of parts imported through Kaliningrad.
Its rapid start was shown through the freight branch of the Lithuanian National Railways in a letter to consumers following a “clarification” from the European Commission on the mechanism for applying the sanctions.
A spokesman for the service showed the contents of the letter and declined to comment further.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid another to troops on the front lines of Ukraine’s war against Russia, where he praised the infantrymen for their courage and hard work and promised that the country would win.
A video posted today on the Ukrainian leader’s official Telegram account shows the president dressed in his khaki T-shirt, handing out medals and posing for selfies with troops in what appeared to be an underground shelter in the southern Region of Mykolaiv.
The president’s workplace did not specify when he made his last visit to the troops.
“Our brave men and women. Each of them is running hard,” Mr. Zelenskyy said in the video. “We will resist!We will definitely win!”
Zelenskyy has basically remained in Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, since Russia invaded the country on February 24.
However, in recent weeks, he has made unannounced visits to the northeastern city of Kharkiv, where in the past there has been intense fighting, and two eastern cities close to where the battles are taking place.
Several Russian missiles hit a fuel plant in Ukraine’s Izium district, the governor of the Kharkiv region Oleh Synehubov said today.
“A large-scale chimney exploded, rescue the chimney,” he wrote on the messaging app Telegram, adding that other buildings had also been damaged.
Earlier, Britain’s Defense Ministry said Russia has most likely renewed its efforts to advance south of the eastern Ukrainian city of Izium in the next 48 hours.
Its purpose is to penetrate deeper into the Donetsk region and wrap the pocket around the besieged city of Sieferodonetsk from the north, he said on Twitter.