Ukraine worked Thursday to get much-needed new supplies of weapons and ammunition from a huge U.S. aid package to its eastern front line‚ where Russia was pressing forward with its efforts to take ground from outnumbered and outgunned troops. Ukraine is also seeking to reverse the drain of potential soldiers from the country‚ announcing that men of conscription age will no longer be able to renew their passports from outside the country. The Cabinet of Ministers said Wednesday...

The Ukrainian government‚ further tightening regulations as it seeks to address a shortage of troops‚ approved rules temporarily barring military-age men from applying for passports abroad. The provisions‚ and a subsequent clarification from Ukraine's Foreign Ministry‚ were announced on Wednesday‚ a day after Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba suspended consular services for males aged 18 to 60 until May 18. He criticised those abroad for failing to serve in the 26-month-old war...

Ukraine’s foreign minister doubled down Friday on the government’s move to bolster the pool of fighting forces by cutting off consular services to conscription-age men outside the country‚ saying it was a question of “justice.” Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said the policy would ensure men in Ukraine and those who have left were both treated fairly. “It’s about justice -- justice in the relationship between Ukrainian men abroad and Ukrainian men inside of Ukraine‚” he said. Ukraine...

Alexei Navalny’s February death in an Arctic penal colony prompted a new wave of sanctions targeting Russia’s economy‚ upended delicate negotiations to exchange prisoners between Russia and the West‚ and left Russia’s limited opposition in disarray. Russian President Vladimir Putin might not have planned for it to happen when it did. U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Putin likely didn’t order Navalny to be killed at the notoriously...

Changing the mixture of insecticide used in the netting has proved effective in fight against the disease that killed 600‚000 in 2022 Source: New types of mosquito bed nets could cut malaria risk by up to half‚ trial finds Very cool.

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