
World Apr 20, 2022
New surrender deadline in Mariupol as West promises Ukraine more arms
Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages were advancing in what Ukrainian officials called the Battle of the Donbas.
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Thousands of Russian troops backed by artillery and rocket barrages were advancing in what Ukrainian officials called the Battle of the Donbas.
Russian advances have been halted by small, mobile Ukrainian units wielding anti-tank weapons shipped in from abroad.
The trip to a city under siege, where Ukraine's military is fighting invading Russian forces just a few kilometers from the periphery, was hastily arranged and known only to a few people.
In a hint of a possible compromise, Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was prepared to accept security guarantees from the West that stop short of its long-term goal of joining NATO.
Sohail Ahmadi was just just 2 months old when he went missing as thousands of people rushed the Kabul airport as the country fell to the Taliban.
By the end of the century, slow-moving, deadly storms that release more rain could be 14 times more frequent, researchers have found.