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Sean Penn calls for Academy Awards boycott if Zelensky is not invited to speak.

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The Oscar-winning U.S. actor, who is making a documentary about Russia's war and helping Ukrainian refugees in Poland through his CORE foundation, told CNN that if the Oscars refuse to let President Volodymyr Zelensky speak about Russian aggression at the March 28 award ceremony it would be "the most obscene moment in all of Hollywood history."

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

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