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Ukraine Update 37 days into the Russian move on the Ukraine

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Prisonor swaps….

Russian support for Putin….

Ukraine pulls off a strike IN Russia at a oil depot?

More Peace talks….

The Southern Ukraine Donesk area offense drive by the Russian military as the forces retreat from the Northern Ukraine……

The Russian military draft.…

NATO increase ‘s troops in Eastern Europe….

The fight in Mariupol continues….

Oil prices drop on news of more supply to ofset Russian exports….

Thousands of residents from war-ravaged Mariupol were transported to Ukrainian-held territory by Friday evening, Ukrainian officials reported, even as the Red Cross said it was unable to reach the port city, where tens of thousands remain trapped.

The International Committee of the Red Cross said it would try to reach Mariupol again this weekend after conditions Friday “made it impossible to proceed” with a major humanitarian mission. The ICRC had readied a nine-person team to help evacuate civilians as the Kremlin declared a cease-fire in the port city, where Ukrainian authorities have estimated as many as 100,000 people remained trapped in grim conditions.

Shelling destroyed much of Mariupol as a weeks-long Russian blockade severed the city from the outside world, raising alarms about dwindling resources.

Here’s what to know

  • Russia accused Ukraine on Friday of attacking a fuel depot in the Russian city of Belgorod in what appeared to be Ukraine’s first airstrike on Russian soil since the invasion.
  • European Union leaders called on China to help end Russia’s war in Ukraine during a virtual summit Friday that was meant to focus on E.U.-China relations.
  • Twenty-eight people are confirmed dead and dozens more unaccounted for after a cruise missile struck Mykolaiv’s main government building this week, a Ukrainian official said….

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Eighty-six Ukrainian service members, including 15 women, from the Zaporizhzhia region have been freed in a prisoner exchange with Russian forces, Ukrainian presidential adviser Yulia Tymoshenko and Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk announced Friday.

Neither side disclosed the number of Russian prisoners released.

Russian and Ukrainian forces for weeks have engaged in intermittent prisoner swaps, including one in mid-March where Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was freed in exchange for nine Russian conscripts. Fedorov said he was abducted by Russian troops and taken to the southeastern city of Luhansk, which is held by Russian separatists….

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