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UN chief calls for 4-day Easter 'pause' in Russia's war against Ukraine.

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While denouncing Russia's renewed assault on Ukraine's eastern Donbas region, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged for a truce from Holy Thursday until Easter Sunday on April 24 that would allow safe passage for civilians to flee the war zone, as well as deliver humanitarian aid to the hardest-hit areas.

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The Kyiv Independent's Nick Allard and Asami Terajima travel to Kharkiv Oblast to meet reconnaissance soldiers from Ukraine's 60th Mechanized Brigade, part of the 3rd Army Corps, and witness the training required to perform one of the army's most dangerous roles.

Among its provisions, the law requires the president to impose tariffs of up to 100% on goods from countries that continue buying Russian crude oil or natural gas and were among the five largest importers of Russian energy by volume over the previous 12 months.

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