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Russia says it is ready to resume talks
Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky said Sunday Russia is ready to resume peace talks with Ukraine and said their suspension was due to Kyiv.
“For our part, we are ready to continue the dialogue,” Vladimir Medinsky, the Kremlin adviser in charge of negotiations with Kyiv, said in an interview with Belarusian television.
“The freezing of talks was entirely an initiative of Ukraine,” he added, believing that the “ball was in their court.”
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Ukraine: A Moscow-appointed mayor is injured in an explosion
The Moscow-installed mayor of Energodar, a city in southern Ukraine that houses Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, was injured in an explosion on Sunday, a Ukrainian official and Russian news outlets said.
Andrei Shevtchik was appointed mayor of Energodar after Russian troops seized control of that city and the Zaporijjia nuclear power plant located on its territory.
“We have precise confirmation that the explosion injured Shevchik, the self-proclaimed head of the ‘People’s Administration’, and his bodyguards,” Dmytro Orlov, elected mayor of Energodar, told Telegram.
The latter added that they were in hospital “with injuries of varying degrees of severity” but that the circumstances of the blast were still to be clarified.
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According to the UN, there are more than 100 million uprooted people worldwide
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has pushed the number of people uprooted worldwide to more than 100 million for the first time, the United Nations warned on Monday.
“The number of people forced to flee conflict, violence, human rights abuses and persecution has passed the staggering 100 million mark for the first time, fueled by the war in Ukraine and other deadly conflicts,” the High Commissioner for Refugees wrote in a press release .
“The figure of 100 million is frightening, worrying and sobering. It’s a number that should never have been reached,” said UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.
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Hello, everyone!
Welcome to this directorate dedicated to the 89th day of the war in Ukraine.