
Ukraine brings home 193 POWs from Russian captivity
President Volodymyr Zelensky said those brought back to Ukraine include individuals against whom Russian authorities have opened criminal cases, as well as wounded soldiers.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said those brought back to Ukraine include individuals against whom Russian authorities have opened criminal cases, as well as wounded soldiers.
Russia launched a drone attack on Odesa overnight on April 27, striking residential infrastructure in the city, officials reported.

Russia launched 94 drones at Ukraine overnight, the Air Force said, adding that air defenses intercepted 74.

Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in St. Petersburg after visiting Pakistan and Oman as part of diplomatic efforts to reinvigorate ceasefire talks between Tehran and Washington.

The number includes 810 casualties that Russian forces suffered over the past day.

Russian independent media outlet Mediazona, in collaboration with the BBC Russian service, has confirmed the identities of 213,858 Russian military personnel killed in Ukraine.

Mali's defense minister, Sadio Camara, who had close ties to the Kremlin, was killed in an insurgent attack, a government spokesperson said April 26, as Russia's Africa Corps withdrew from a northern Malian town after clashes with rebels.

A Western-funded classified program supported a "non-violent resistance" initiative inside Russian-occupied Ukraine for more than three years that encouraged civilians to engage in "suicidal" activities despite credible reports of the deaths, torture, and imprisonment of activists, the Kyiv Independent can reveal. Russian-occupied Ukraine is one of the most heavily surveilled and most repressive territories in the world, and some of the activities Yellow Ribbon and its sister initiative Zla Mav