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CBC: Canada to extend a $1.7 billion loan to Ukraine. Canada will extend a $2.4 billion Canadian dollars ($1.7 billion US) loan to Ukraine in the coming budget year to help prop up Ukraine's finances. The measure is identified in the latest federal budget.

Wednesday, March 29

2:31 AM

Ministry confirms deportation of over 19,000 Ukrainian children to Russia. Russian forces have unlawfully transferred or deported 19,514 Ukrainian children to Russia, violating the Geneva Conventions, the Reintegration Ministry reported on March 28.

1:40 AM

Russia fires at Sumy Oblast at least 100 times. Russian forces shelled four communities in Sumy Oblast on March 28, regional military administration reported on Telegram.

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Ukraine’s state defense conglomerate UkrOboronProm transformed into stock company.

11:53 PM

CNN: Military action increases around Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, says IAEA head. Fighting has intensified near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Grossi told CNN on March 28. Grossi and his team are on their way to visit the nuclear power plant for a second time to assess the situation firsthand.

11:21 PM

Ukraine's sports minister: As Russia kills our athletes, it's not the time to allow Russians back to international sports.

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Intelligence: Russia’s Wagner Group behind attack on Olenivka penal colony

by The Kyiv Independent news desk July 29, 2022 6:54 PM 1 min read

According to Ukraine’s Defense Ministry Intelligence Directorate, the explosion in a penal colony in Russian-occupied Olenivka, Donetsk Oblast, was ordered by the owner of the Russian-controlled private military Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and was not coordinated with the Russian Defense Ministry.

However, Ukraine’s General Staff earlier said that Russia attacked the colony to destroy the evidence of torturing and killing Ukrainian POWs.

According to the Prosecutor General's Office, around 40 Ukrainian prisoners of war were killed, and 130 were injured in the Russian attack on the Olenivka penal colony, where Russian proxies held the defenders of Mariupol who were supposed to be exchanged.

The Kyiv Independent news desk

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