re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Hard to understand how people can dislike Orban mate

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Ukraine carries out massive drone attack on multiple oil refineries in at least 6 Russian oblasts

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Wtf the little globohomo Marxist is not letting up

Probsbly the only thing he's ever been right about

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ROME — Pope Francis said that NATO “barking” at Russia’s door may have led to Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine — and said he has offered to meet the Russian president in Moscow.

In an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, Francis reflected on Russia’s lethal aggression toward its neighbor and said while he might not go as far as saying NATO’s presence in nearby countries “provoked” Moscow, it “perhaps facilitated” the invasion.

Francis also condemned the “brutality” of the war and compared it to Rwanda’s civil war in the 1990s, which resulted in a genocide of the Tutsi minority.

The Holy See has been asking since mid-March for a meeting between Francis and Putin in Moscow, the pope said. “Of course we needed the leader of the Kremlin to allocate a window of time. We haven’t yet had any response, and we are still trying, even if I fear that Putin can’t and doesn’t want to have this meeting at this time.”

In the interview, Francis ruled out going to Kyiv for now: “First I have to go to Moscow, first I have to meet Putin.”

Francis said he had canceled a meeting with Patriarch Kirill, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church and a key backer of Putin who has justified the war, as they both thought it would look “ambiguous” — but in a phone call said he warned Kirill not to “turn himself into Putin’s altar boy.”

Since the invasion of Ukraine, Francis has repeatedly criticized the invasion, while avoiding naming Putin explicitly, in line with the Vatican’s foreign policy of keeping the door open for possible dialogue.

The Russian embassy to the Holy See did not immediately respond to phone calls or an emailed request for comment. A spokesman for the Vatican did not respond to request for comment

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Jesus. Somebody has attacked Navalny's former chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, outside his home, bashing his car, spraying him in the face with tear gas, and beating him with a hammer. He has reportedly survived but his condition is unclear.

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At the current rate, it will take at least two years to clear the right bank of Kherson region of mines.

This was stated by Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration.

"A third of the liberated territories have been surveyed. On this area alone, explosive experts have found and destroyed more than 155,000 mines, tripwires, unexploded shells and other explosives," noted Prokudin.

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ruSSians running from the Tetkino settlement.

"The village of Tetkino, Kursk Oblast, is completely under the control of the Russian liberation forces,"- Legion of Freedom of Russia

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?Ukraine and the European Union have signed a loan agreement and a memorandum on transitional financing for Ukraine under the Ukraine Facility.

The total amount of concessional funds provided for March-April of this year is €6 billion, the press service of the Ministry of Finance reported.

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In evening address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy commented on the Russian attack on Kryvyi Rih.

"We will inflict losses on the Russian state in response - quite rightly. They in the Kremlin must get used to the fact that terror does not go unpunished for them. Nothing will cure these patients of evil, but they will feel the losses," he said.

In his evening address, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that the number of border troops would increase.

"We will increase the number of border troops - both in view of the current tasks of defense against Russian aggression and in anticipation of the long-term protection of the borders of our state after this war," the president said.

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Zelenskyy did not lift a finger to help Trump.

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Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced additional security assistance as an extraordinary measure to address some of Ukraine's most pressing security and defense needs. This announcement is the Biden Administration's fifty-fifth tranche of equipment to be provided from DoD inventories for Ukraine since August 2021. This Presidential Drawdown Authority (PDA) package is valued at up to $300 million and includes capabilities to support Ukraine's immediate air defense, artillery, and anti-tank requirements.

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