War in Ukraine, live: more than 5.2 million refugees according to UN

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• The head of Russian diplomacy, Sergey Lavrov assured on Monday that he wanted to continue the peace negotiations with Ukraine, but at the same time warned of the “real” danger that the conflict could degenerate into World War III. He accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of “faking” talks with Moscow.
• Anton Blinken and Austin Lloyd, the United States’ chiefs of diplomacy and defense, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Sunday, April 24, exactly two months after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Washington announced the gradual return of an American diplomatic presence in Ukraine and additional direct and indirect assistance of more than $700 million.
• Despite numerous demands for a armistice Fighting and shooting continued for the Easter weekend of the Orthodox Christians.
• HAS Mariupol, a new attempt to evacuate civilians to the city of Zaporizhia failed on Saturday. Moscow and Kyiv blamed each other for these mistakes. Almost 100,000 civilians are still stuck in the ruined city, which has been under siege since the beginning of March. According to the mayor, 20,000 people are said to have died there. President Zelenskyy suggested that Russia hold “a special meeting with talks right next to the Azovstal site,” the last nest of Ukrainian resistance, and indicated that he was “waiting for the Russian response.”
• At least eight people, including a baby, were killed in Russian attacks on the port city on SaturdayOdesa, according to a report by the Ukrainian Presidency. For its part, the Russian army claimed to have used “high-precision missiles” to attack a logistics terminal at the military airfield near Odessa, which houses weapons supplied to the Ukrainian armed forces by the United States and European countries.
• In the basin of Donbass, Russian troops have “intensified their offensives” in three directions, according to the Ukrainian General Staff. In the region of Luhansk Six civilians were killed, victims of Russian attacks near the village of Girské. Vicinity Donetsk, five civilians were killed on Sunday. HAS Koroviy Iar, a town in northern Donbass, fighting broke out at the entrance to the village, AFP noted. Ukrainian tanks and tanks reinforced the counteroffensive, covering an attempt to evacuate 30 civilians.
• For its part, the Russian army said Sunday it carried them out missile attacks against nine Ukrainian military targets, including four ammunition depots south of the Kharkiv region. Moscow also said it carried out airstrikes against 26 targets and 423 artillery strikes, without giving locations.
• The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said it was “extremely concerned” by the arrest of four members of its 2014 ceasefire monitoring mission in the pro-Russian separatist areas of eastern Ukraine, set up after the conflict between those regions and Kyiv following Russia’s annexation of Crimea. She called for her “immediate release”.
• In Russia, every voice provokes war suffocate again and again. Popular chess site Chess.com has been banned there at the request of the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office after two articles about Ukraine that it described as “false information” were published.
• The Secretary General of United NationsAntonio Guterres, a key mediator in the conflict in Ukraine, will travel to Turkey on Monday before heading to Moscow and Kyiv, the UN said in a statement.
• number of refugees According to the United Nations, nearly 5.2 million people are fleeing the Russian invasion. More than 7.7 million people have left their homes but are still in Ukraine.

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