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Arman Soldin walks in a village after a shelling in Ukraine on March 3, 2022. Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty Images A French journalist working for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) was killed by rocket fire near the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Arman Soldin, 32, was…

CNN  —  A French journalist working for the international news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) was killed by rocket fire near the embattled city of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday. Arman Soldin, 32, was AFP’s video coordinator in Ukraine and was killed in a rocket attack on the outskirts of…

CNN  —  Spanish police have arrested 26 people in recent months for an alleged scheme to use water from illegal wells to grow subtropical fruit, as the country grapples with damaging heat and drought. A Spanish Civil Guard statement said a four-year investigation had uncovered 250 illegal wells and ponds…

CNN  —  For Russian President Vladimir Putin, this year’s Victory Day parade in Red Square was a chance to continue his war on history. He succeeded only in underscoring his geopolitical isolation. In a speech before the assembled troops, Putin drew a direct line between his invasion of Ukraine and…

CNN  —  A Polish mayor died after falling from a fourth-floor window of a hotel in Sardinia, Italy, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported on Tuesday. The mayor was not named by PAP or the spokesman for Fabrizio Mustaro, the investigator of the Cagliari police. Mustaro’s spokesperson said the man…

It’s Victory Day in Russia, but several regions — especially near the Ukraine border — are scaling back celebrations due to security concerns and a lack of military equipment to display. Follow here for live updates. Source link

CNN  —  Thousands of people will line the streets of Moscow’s Red Square on Tuesday as part of Russia’s annual Victory Day parade, when the Kremlin will display a front of military might and grandeur contrasting with its faltering military campaign on the frontlines in Ukraine. But several regions in…

Mala Tokmachka, Ukraine CNN  —  In this vacant and damaged village, news of Russia’s evacuation of occupied towns along the southern front cannot come soon enough. Ukrainian-held Mala Tokmachka, just over a mile (2 kilometers) from Russian-held territory in the Zaporizhzhia region, has been left ghostly and battered by shelling,…

CNN  —  The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog has raised concerns as to the safety of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, describing it as “increasingly unpredictable,” after Moscow ordered the evacuation of residents from Russian-occupied areas close to the facility. More than 1,600 people, including 660 children, have been evacuated from…

CNN  —  A cargo train loaded with tanks chugs along under the crisp, spring sun. “Wow,” a woman says, pointing her camera phone at the convoy. “This is the second train, there was one like it just before.” The video, seemingly filmed in late March, shows old Soviet tanks being…

The US has high confidence in the accuracy of Ukraine’s claim that it used an American-made Patriot air defense system to intercept a Russian hypersonic missile, according to a source familiar with the matter.   While the Patriot system has been successful in countering ballistic missiles, its ability to stop air-launched hypersonic missiles was…

CNN  —  Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner mercenary group, has apparently backtracked on a threat to withdraw his forces from the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, after Russia’s Ministry of Defense promised to provide more ammunition to his troops. In an explosive, expletive-laden rant this week, Prigozhin appeared in…

CNN  —  Ukraine’s assertion that a US Patriot defense battery took out one of Russia’s most modern ballistic missiles is a notable moment in the conflict, now in its 15th month, Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Russian military have touted the Kinzhal, or Kh-47, as an example of Russia’s…

A car explosion wounded a Russian military blogger and left his driver dead Saturday, according to state media. It marked the second recent blast involving one of the country’s nationalist writers, drawing further attention to the role they play in Moscow’s propaganda machine. The blogger wounded Saturday is Zakhar Prilepin,…

Paris CNN  —  France’s finance minister is in the spotlight. But it’s not the country’s downgraded credit rating, nor the government’s hated retirement age hike that’s got people talking. His work “Fugue Americaine” – which includes a scene with an unforgettable phrase about an anus – has brought mockery, even…

CNN  —  Russian-appointed authorities in Crimea reported on Sunday that their air defense forces and electronic warfare units had fended off at least three Ukranian drone attacks in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol. The Russian-back governor of the city, Mikhail Razvozhaev said that “more than ten drones” were sent…

CNN  —  Russia has blamed the “Kyiv regime” and several Western nations for the bombing of military blogger Zakhar Prilepin’s car on Saturday. The claim was made by a spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, but she provided no proof for the allegation. In reaction, the Security Service of Ukraine…

Rome, Italy CNN  —  A group of climate activists in Italy have poured what they described as “a charcoal-based black liquid” into the water of Rome’s famous Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) – to “sound the alarm about the black future that awaits humanity.” “Our future…

CNN  —  Dutch police arrested 154 football supporters in Amsterdam on Saturday due to the singing of antisemitic chants, a police statement said. According to the statement, the football fans were warned several times to stop singing as they made their way to the Johan Cruijff Arena on the subway.…