More than 70 hospital patients and staff members from the besieged Ukrainian city have been sent to Russia against their will, officials say, a war crime under the Geneva Conventions.
Trevor Reed started his second hunger strike in Russian prison after being sent to solitary confinement instead of getting treatment for tuberculosis. His parents want to meet with President Biden.
The announcement comes a day after Russia said its military is shifting forces away from Ukraine's capital and is the latest hint that Kyiv might be heading toward some stability.
"While others in Europe looked at Russia as a business partner," the Polish prime minister said, "we saw that Russia uses gas and oil as a way to blackmail."
Russia said on Tuesday that it would significantly scale back its military activity around Kyiv and Chernihiv. Ukraine delivered a proposal for accepting a neutral and nonnuclear status.
The city, an island of relative safety surrounded by fighting, has become a hub for humanitarian aid and for people fleeing the war in the Donbas and other parts of Ukraine.
Detaining the yacht, named Phi, is "a clear and stark warning to Putin and his cronies," Britain's transport secretary said. Officials said the yacht's ownership is "deliberately well hidden."
The Feldman Ecopark in the hard-hit city of Kharkiv has lost many animals and even several staff members to Russian shelling in the past month. It's now trying to evacuate as many animals as possible.
Displaying a "Z" in Bavaria or Lower Saxony could result in a fine or up to three years in jail. People across Germany who use the letter could also be liable to prosecution, an official said Monday.
Intelligence reports warned of Russian provocations along the routes, Ukrainian officials said. Ukraine and Russia have regularly agreed to establish corridors from some of the hardest-hit cities.
In interviews promoting her new memoir, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine revealed she owns some anti-Putin merchandise — and has been giving it out for years.
Marina Ovsyannikova, who burst onto the set of a live broadcast holding a sign reading "No War," could be fined between 30,000 and 50,000 rubles when her case is heard on April 14.
International groups say Russian soldiers are threatening, detaining and even torturing Ukrainian journalists in occupied areas. One news editor says troops are holding her 75-year-old father hostage.
Thousands of Russians have left their country since their government began its invasion of Ukraine. Many have settled in Georgia, a country with a complicated history with its neighbor to the north.
