Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine

[ad_1] Olesya Krivtsova speaks to CNN in Vilnius, Lithuania. (CNN) Olesya Krivtsova thinks it’s because she was neither the first, nor the last, to criticize the war in Ukraine that she scared Russian authorities as much as she did. Her social media posts were neither particularly strident nor unusual, she told CNN, reflecting those of…

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Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine

[ad_1] A delegation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church branch loyal to Moscow, in Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 20. (Valentyn Ogirenko/Reuters) Wednesday marks the deadline for clergy from the pro-Russian Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) to leave a historic cave monastery complex in Kyiv. The Kyiv Pechersk Lavra is home to the UOC, a branch of Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine that has…

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Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine

[ad_1] Ukrainian officials say Russian forces have kept up their bombardments across the Donetsk region, with more than 200 strikes against the Bakhmut area alone in the past 24 hours — but they claim the Russians are losing hundreds of men a day across the front lines. The eastern city of Bakhmut remains “the focus of…

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Live updates: Russia’s war in Ukraine

[ad_1] Rescuers work at a site of a residential building damaged by a Russian missile strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on March 22. (Stringer/Reuters) Russia unleashed a wave of deadly attacks on towns and cities across Ukraine on Wednesday as Chinese leader Xi Jinping departed from Moscow following talks with President Vladimir Putin. Xi left Russia’s capital pledging to deepen ties with…

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