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Reuters: Russia's drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets early on Wednesday, killing nine people in wave of attacks that targeted civilian infrastructure in east, south and central Ukraine, officials said.
Sky News: The top diplomats from the UK, US, France, Germany and Ukraine have postponed a plan to meet in London on Wednesday for high-level talks on how to end Russia's war.
Axios: The U.S. expects Ukraine's response Wednesday to a peace framework that includes U.S. recognition of Crimea as part of Russia and unofficial recognition of Russian control of nearly all areas occupied since the 2022 invasion.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Chinese citizens were working at a drone production site in Russia and suggested that Moscow may have "stolen" drone technology from China.
The Kyiv Independent: A Russian court in the occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Oblast sentenced two residents to 14 years in a general regime penal colony, for alleged “treason” over fund transfers to the Ukrainian military.
ISW: Russian forces continue to innovate their long-range drone strike tactics in order to offset the effectiveness of Ukrainian mobile defense units.
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AFP: The European Union will never recognize the Russian-occupied Crimean peninsula as legally Russian, the bloc's top diplomat Kaja Kallas told AFP on April 22.
Reuters: President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday that Ukraine would be ready to hold talks with Russia in any format once a ceasefire deal is in place and the fighting has stopped.
Reuters: Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with Trump, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
AFP: US envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg will take part in talks in London among Kyiv's allies Wednesday, the State Department announced. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will not attend the talks.
The Moscow Times: Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff will visit Russia later this week, an aide to Putin told the Interfax news agency on Tuesday.
Reuters: The European Commission is assessing whether it could legislate to forbid firms in the European Union from signing new contracts for Russian fossil fuels, a senior EU official said on Tuesday.
Reuters: Russia has cut its forecast for 2025-2027 oil and gas export revenues, a key source of funding for the state budget, due to weaker oil prices, seeing the proceeds falling by 15% this year.
NBC News: Russia is increasing its hybrid attacks aimed at undermining society in the Netherlands and its European allies, and Russian hackers have already targeted the Dutch public service, Dutch military intelligence agency MIVD said Tuesday.
The Moscow Times: A powerful explosion rocked central Russia’s Vladimir region on Tuesday, local authorities said, while the military stated that the blast erupted at an ammunition depot due to human error.
Reuters: Major Russian banks have set up a netting payments system dubbed "The China Track" for transactions with China, aiming to reduce their visibility to Western regulators and mitigate the risk of secondary sanctions.
The Kyiv Independent: Russian forces in the Lyman sector of Donetsk Oblast violated the one-day Easter ceasefire, used it to regroup, and launched a large-scale infantry assault shortly after its end, the spokesperson for Ukraine's 66th Separate Mechanized Brigade said on April 22.
Bloomberg: Switzerland adopted further Russia sanctions imposed by the European Union including widening an advertising ban on media organizations, the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs said in a statement (archive).
RFI: France has responded with marked scepticism to Putin’s recent call for an Easter truce in Ukraine, branding it a superficial gesture aimed more at appeasing Washington than paving the way for genuine peace.
Reuters: European powers told the United States last week which aspects of a potential peace deal between Ukraine and Russia would be non-negotiable for them, ahead of a new round of discussions on Wednesday, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said.
The Kyiv Independent: Russia attacked the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia on April 22, killing at least one person and injuring 38, including five children, Governor Ivan Fedorov reported.
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