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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik announced on March 31 that he had arrived in Moscow after prosecutors in Bosnia-Herzegovina requested an international arrest warrant over accusations that he flouted the Balkan country’s constitution. Dodik posted a video of himself on social media in front of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier along the wall of the Kremlin.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
Rescue teams have recovered a submerged military vehicle in Lithuania that was carrying four US soldiers who remain missing. The M88 Hercules armored vehicle was retrieved early March 31, six days after a rescue operation was launched at the Pabrade military training ground near Lithuania's border with BelarusLithuanian Defense Minister Davile Sakaliene said that the fate of the four soldiers has yet to be determined.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on March 29 pleaded for a "strong response" from Ukraine’s Western partners as deadly Russian attacks mounted, including air strikes on a Kharkiv military hospital and on the cities of Dnipro and Kryviy Rih. “Our partners should clearly understand: These strikes are not just attacks on Ukrainian civilians, but also on all international efforts -- on the very diplomacy we are trying to use to end this war," Zelenskyy said in his nightly video address.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
Police in the Netherlands said on March 29 that a man suspected of a stabbing rampage that wounded five people in Amsterdam is a Ukrainian national from the eastern Donetsk region. The 30-year-old man is suspected of using multiple knives to randomly stab five people in a busy shopping area in central Amsterdam on March 27 and is set to appear in court on April 1, police said in a statement. The motive for the attack remains unclear, and the investigation remains ongoing, police said.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
At least seven soldiers and six suspected militants were killed during a military operation in northwestern Pakistan, a Pakistani intelligence official told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaalon March 29. The deadly encounter erupted a day earlier during an operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, where Pakistani forces regularly conduct counterterrorism sweeps, an official said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak with the media.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
A Russian drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro late on March 28 killed four people and sparked a large fire in a hotel and restaurant complex and multiple private homes, the regional governor said. "According to the information we have at the moment, there are 4 deaths in Dnipro," said Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, on Telegram. Russian forces used more than 20 drones in the strike on Dnipro, which also injured 19.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Ray Furlong |Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is continuing legal action against the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM) to secure the release of congressionally appropriated funding, it said in a statement on March 28. USAGM oversees RFE/RL and other US international media.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Kian Sharifi |Margot Buff |Austin Malloy
KYIV -- The Ukrainian government said it is still considering a draft agreement from the United States on the country's minerals amid media reports Washington has changed the terms of the deal several times. Ukrainian Economy Minister Yulia Svyrydenko announced at a government meeting that Kyiv is forming its position on the agreement but lawmakers would only state their stance once there was consensus. Before then, she said, public discussion would be harmful.
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3 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Abubakar Siddique |A Thread' |Margot Buff
KYIV -- Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes overnight, as Russian forces increased the intensity of attacks on the ground. In a statement, the Ukrainian Air Force said that, on the night of March 28, Russia launched 163 drones of various types. Of the 163 drones launched overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force claimed to have shot down 89 of them. According to the air force, 51 failed to hit their targets, most likely as a result of electronic warfare countermeasures.
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4 weeks ago | 
rferl.org | Todd Prince |Abubakar Siddique |A Thread' |Margot Buff
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged Ukraine’s partners to be “at least as resilient as we are” in the face of conditions Russia has placed on the implementation of a Black Sea cease-fire agreement. Zelenskyy, speaking to journalists in Paris ahead of a meeting of European leaders on March 27, said he had agreed to proceed with cease-fire talks in Saudi Arabia to ensure a resumption of US aid and intelligence sharing.
