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Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda said that severing economic ties with Russia was the right move for Vilnius considering Russia’s “blackmail,” and urged other Western countries to follow their example. “You can clearly see that the policy, which was without any illusions towards Russia, has worked much better than the so-called realpolitik or realistic policy, which is now causing big headache for some Western countries,” Nauseda told LRT, Lithuanian public broadcaster.
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Wednesday, April 8
"This is the first time such plans have been documented on (the Russian) part," Deputy Presidential Office head Pavlo Palisa said.
Russia launched 176 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force said, reporting that Ukrainian air defenses intercepted 146.
The number includes 1,030 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said he has agreed to pause planned military strikes on Iran for two weeks, conditional upon the full and immediate reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
The pro-Ukrainian partisan group Atesh sabotaged a railway line in Russia's Belgorod Oblast, disrupting the transport of military cargo toward Kupiansk, the group claimed via Telegram on April 8.
The acknowledgement, which was delivered to Yaounde by Russian officials and broadcast through Cameroonian state media on April 6, marks the first time Cameroon has formally spoken of its citizens' involvement in the Ukraine war.
Wednesday, April 8
U.S. President Donald Trump praised Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban during a political rally in Budapest, where Vice President JD Vance held up his phone so Trump could address the crowd live.
Mircea Lucescu, former head coach of Ukrainian football teams Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk, has died at the age of 80, Romanian media reported on April 7.
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Washington is "certainly aware that there are elements within the Ukrainian intelligence services that try to put their thumb on the scale of American elections, on Hungarian elections," Vice President JD Vance said.
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Zelensky said Kyiv wants THAAD as part of future security guarantees, but analysts question both the system’s usefulness for Ukraine and the likelihood of it being provided.
The ship was detained in Odesa's commercial port after arriving under the flag of an African country, reportedly to load a shipment of steel pipes.
