Cover photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy rewards a Muslim soldier before an iftar dinner, the meal for breaking the daily fast in the month of Ramadan, at a Muslim center outside Kiev April 7, 2023. Efrem Lukatsky / AP
- Thirty-one children returned to Ukraine after being illegally brought to Russia from the Kherson and Kharkiv regionssaid Mykola Kuleba, founder of Save Ukraine, a Kiev-based humanitarian organization.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday accused Russia of carrying out “repression” of the Crimean Tatar communitywith a promise to retake the peninsula annexed from Moscow in 2014. Kiev has pledged not to give up Crimea in exchange for ending the war, rejecting a proposal by Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
- US journalist Evan Gershkovich, arrested in Russia last week, has been formally charged with “espionage”. Friday, a charge he and his employer, the Wall Street Journal, firmly deny.
- The Russian currency fell to its lowest level in a year on Fridayfell by the end of the day to 81 rubles per dollar and 88.9 per euro, mainly due to the fall in Moscow’s foreign exchange earnings against the background of international sanctions related to the invasion of Ukraine.
- Kiev and Warsaw have decided to suspend Ukrainian exports of certain grains and oilseeds to Poland, where their massive and uncontrolled influx has destabilized the local market, the two countries’ agriculture ministers announced on Friday. This agreement does not affect the transit of these products through Poland to other countries, it said.
- Any peace negotiation must focus on establishing a “New World Order” without American hegemonysaid on Friday the head of Russian diplomacy Sergei Lavrov.
- The Pentagon is attempting to identify the source of leaked classified documents detailing US and NATO strategy in support of Ukraine in view of the Russian invasion published on social networks this week. These documents appear to be authentic, according to experts cited by the New York Times, but some have been altered to present the Russian situation in a more favorable light, particularly to minimize the extent of their losses.
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