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☆ Ex-comic sets sights on Ukraine reconstruction after helping fund war effort
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-31 | by ( Dan Peleschuk | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Now the comedian-turned-politician's charitable foundation is setting its sights on the next big battle: post-war reconstruction. Prytula, 41, led a campaign to acquire Turkish Bayraktar drones after Russia's full-scale invasion in February last year. The foundation also raised about $9.5 million for attack drones, which he said were ordered by Kyiv's military intelligence. After the war, Prytula wants to apply his crowdfunding acumen to help rebuild war-damaged parts of Ukraine. "All of this will need to be rebuilt, and after the war we'll begin measuring everything we've lost."

Persons: Serhiy Prytula, Mariia, Oleksandr, Prytula, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Anna Gvozdiar, Gvozdiar, isn't, we've, Ivan Lyubysh, Timothy Heritage, Sharon Singleton Organizations: Reuters, Foundation, Bank, Thomson Locations: Ukraine, Kyiv, KYIV, Turkish, Finnish, Crimea, Sumy

☆ Russian forces in retreat near Bakhmut, Ukraine and Wagner say
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-18 | by ( Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +6 min

Ukrainian troops near the front line said Russia was bombarding access roads to slow the Ukrainian assault, which has shifted momentum after months of slow Russian gains in Europe's deadliest ground combat since World War Two. Ukraine's gains have been accompanied by a deepening public split within Russia's forces between Wagner, which has led the Bakhmut campaign, and the regular Russian military. The Russian defence ministry has acknowledged some withdrawals from positions near Bakhmut over the past week but denies Prigozhin's assertions that flanks are crumbling, or that it has withheld ammunition from Wagner. "Using the principle of active defence, we resort to counteroffensive actions in some directions near Bakhmut. Russia has also been experiencing attacks and explosions both in Ukrainian territory it controls and in Russian territory near the border.

It's a very effective gadget," the soldier, who uses the call sign Kakrurt, told Reuters in the central-eastern region of Dnipropetrovsk. Kakrurt fights for Ukraine's 35th Marine Brigade, which modifies commercially-available drones and uses them to attack Russian forces who are occupying swathes of Ukraine's east and south. The brigade shared two video clips with Reuters showing its drones flying into what they said were Russian trenches before detonating. Drones have been used extensively by both Moscow and Kyiv's forces since Russia invaded Ukraine in February last year. That's why the Ukrainian Armed Forces are developing very, very quickly in this direction," he said.

"In three days of counter-offensive activity, the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Bakhmut sector have liberated 17.3 sq. miles) of territory," Serhiy Cherevatyi, spokesman for the "east" group of Ukrainian forces, said on the Telegram messaging app. Ukrainian servicemen ride atop of a tank on a road to the frontline town of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Donetsk region, Ukraine May 12, 2023. Prigozhin, whose fighters have been battling to push Ukrainian forces out of Bakhmut's Western outskirts, has said the north and south flanks, guarded by regular Russian troops, were crumbling. Prigozhin called that deceptive and said the Bakhmut advances amounted to the start of Kyiv's campaign.

[1/4] A load of corn is poured into a truck, at a grain storage facility in the village of Bilohiria, Khmelnytskyi region, Ukraine April 19, 2023. REUTERS/Gleb GaranichBILOHIRIA, Ukraine, April 19 (Reuters) - Volodymyr Bondaruk takes little comfort from Poland's decision to lift a ban on the transit of Ukrainian grain. His mixed dairy and arable farm in western Ukraine has already lost a Polish contract and he doubts it will ever be renewed. With uncertainty growing over the future of a Black Sea Grain Initiative that allows safe grain exports from three ports in southern Ukraine, Bondaruk said the outlook for exports appeared increasingly bleak. He called for European help for Ukrainian farmers seeking to export grain, saying that he, unlike "some in Europe", did not want subsidies, just an even playing field.

Humanity will prevail," Zelenskiy said, leading a ceremony at which the Ukrainian flag was raised in Bucha. Zelenskiy described Bucha as a "symbol of the atrocities" of Russian occupying forces. Fighting rages on in the east and south of Ukraine, where Russian forces hold swathes of territory captured after they invaded on Feb. 24, 2022. Ukrainian forces have dug in and held out for now in the city of Bakhmut and are expected to launch a counteroffensive soon. This is part of Russia's planned strategy to destroy Ukraine as a state and Ukrainians as a nation," he said.

☆ Ukraine fencers unite behind federation's boycott call
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-30 | by ( Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

[1/3] Members of Ukraine's fencing team attend a training session at the Olympic training base, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine March 28, 2023. REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoMarch 30 (Reuters) - Ukraine's fencers have welcomed their federation's decision to boycott international competitions featuring Russians and Belarusians, amid a row over whether athletes from the two latter countries should be allowed at next year's Olympics. The move prompted Ukraine's fencing federation (NFFU) to say it would boycott all events in which Russians and Belarusians were included, a message reinforced this week by NFFU president Mykhailo Illiashev. "We aren't giving up," said Ukrainian fencing coach and former Olympian Olha Leleiko. And, along with our friends, we will look for competitions in which Russian athletes do not participate."

☆ Ukrainian police rescue six-year-old girl from besieged Bakhmut
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/5] A mother Halyna, 24, hugs her daughter Arina, 6, after her evacuation from front line city of Bakhmut, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Sloviansk, Donetsk region, Ukraine January 31, 2023. REUTERS/Oleksandr RatushniakBAKHMUT, Ukraine, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Ukrainian police staged a risky rescue mission in the besieged eastern city of Bakhmut this week to evacuate a six-year-old girl who had become separated from her pregnant mother. Young Arina was found living with her grandparents in a run-down apartment building in Bakhmut, which has been pummelled by Russian forces in heavy fighting. Arina, clutching a large white teddy bear, told her mother after they hugged. He had to gently coax Arina into leaving Bakhmut, calmly explaining the dangers of remaining.

Ukraine's military said it shot down 47 of 59 Russian missiles - some fired from Tu-95 strategic bombers in the Russian Arctic. Russia responded with fury to news on Wednesday that Germany and the United States would send dozens of modern tanks to Ukraine. [1/11] A local resident carry home staff from a house of his neighbour damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine January 26, 2023. After being promised modern tanks, Ukraine is now seeking Western fourth-generation fighter jets such as the U.S. F-16, an adviser to Ukraine's defence minister said. The United States on Thursday formally designated Russian private military company the Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization, freezing its U.S. assets for helping Russia's military in the Ukraine war.

Ukraine said it had shot down all 24 drones sent overnight by Russia, including 15 around the capital, and 47 of 55 Russian missiles - some fired from Tu-95 strategic bombers in the Russian Arctic. Eleven people were killed and 11 wounded in the drone and missile strikes, which spanned 11 regions and also damaged 35 buildings, a State Emergency Service spokesperson said. Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said electricity substations had been hit as Russia continued to target energy facilities. [1/7] Local residents remove debris from a house of their neighbour damaged by a Russian military strike, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Hlevakha, outside Kyiv, Ukraine January 26, 2023. Both Moscow and Kyiv, which have so far relied on Soviet-era T-72 tanks, are expected to mount new ground offensives in spring.

☆ Factbox: Who are the officials swept out in Ukraine's biggest shake-up of the war?
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-24 | by ( Max Hunder | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERSKYIV, Jan 24 (Reuters) - A slew of high-level officials resigned or were dismissed from their posts on Tuesday in Ukraine's biggest internal shake-up since it was invaded by Russia on Feb. 24 last year. GOVERNOR OF DNIPROPETROVSK REGIONValentyn Reznichenko had served since 2015 as governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, the main wartime logistical and medical hub for Ukraine's eastern battlefront. He had already once been dismissed from the role by Zelenskiy in 2019 but reappointed in December 2020. TWO DEPUTY MINISTERS OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTIvan Lukeria and Vyacheslav Nehoda were dismissed as deputy ministers of regional development. DEPUTY MINISTER FOR SOCIAL POLICYVitaliy Muzychenko was dismissed from his role as deputy minister for social policy.

☆ 'Where are the kids?' Ukrainian mother recounts helicopter crash horror
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

The young mother ran to the burning nursery but could not see her daughter. Some kids were in ambulances," she said on Thursday, a day after the crash in the town of Brovary outside Kyiv. She said it was too early to say what caused the crash, but Ukrainian officials have not blamed it on Russia. [1/4] A relative looks at the site of a helicopter crash, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in the town of Brovary, outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2023. But thank God, Sofiika fell ill, so we weren't there," the mother said at the vigil, her daughter beside her.

☆ Murray grinds down Kokkinakis in late-night epic
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-19 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +4 min

Murray, back with coach Ivan Lendl who guided him to his Grand Slam titles and to world number one in 2016, has not gone past the third round of a Grand Slam since 2017 when his hip condition first surfaced. Kokkinakis tightened with the finishing line in sight and the venom gradually went out of his shots as Murray threw caution to the wind and locked on to his target. Relentlessly Murray ground his way back into the contest to set up a deciding fifth set, sealing the fourth set with a second-serve ace. There was pandemonium when he saved four break points at 3-3 and Kokkinakis was within two points of victory when Murray served at 4-5 in the decider. "Thanks for staying, but now I think we should all get off to bed," Murray said.

☆ Ukrainians bid farewell to fallen ballet dancer
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

REUTERS/Valentyn OgirenkoKYIV, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Mournful Ukrainians said their final goodbyes on Thursday to a 26-year-old ballet dancer who was killed fighting Russian troops in eastern Ukraine. Fellow performers and staff members carried his coffin into the theatre, where visitors lined up to tearfully bid farewell. As Khlupianets' coffin was carried away, they erupted into one last round of applause. Ukrainian forces have succeeded in expelling Russian troops from large portions of eastern and southern Ukraine in recent weeks. Reporting by Ivan Lyubysh-Kirdey and Anna Dabrowska; Writing by Dan Peleschuk Editing by Tomasz JanowskiOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

New Delhi CNN Business —Foxconn, one of Apple’s largest suppliers, is wrestling with major disruption at its biggest iPhone assembly factory in China, as anxious workers reportedly flee the facility, according to social media videos. “[We] fully understand your eagerness to go back home,” Foxconn told its employees over the weekend, according to a post on Zhengzhou government’s official WeChat account. The Zhengzhou campus is the world’s biggest iPhone factory and typically accounts for as much as 85% of iPhone assembly capacity, according to Lam’s estimates. State media has said that many Foxconn workers are among those walking miles to escape the city. While these disruptions will impact iPhone production in the near term, analysts say it may not dent Apple’s iPhone shipments in the key holiday season.

☆ Ivanka Trump accepts Czech state award on behalf of late mother Ivana
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-29 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/4] Ivanka Trump accepts a state award on behalf of her late mother Ivana Trump, first wife of former U.S. President Donald Trump, from Czech President Milos Zeman, with her brother Donald Trump Jr., during an award ceremony at Prague Castle, in Prague, Czech Republic, October 28, 2022. REUTERS/Bundas EnglerPRAGUE, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka has accepted a Czech state award honouring her late mother Ivana who emigrated to the United States in the 1970s but kept close ties to her native country. Born Ivana Marie Zelnickova Czechoslovakia, Ivana Trump grew up in Zlin some 300 km (186 miles) from Prague. She met Donald Trump on a modelling trip to New York in 1976 and became his first wife when they married nine months later. Ivana Trump told CBS television in 2017 that Trump offered her the role of ambassador to the Czech Republic but that she turned it down.

☆ Cazul Navalny: SUA pregătesc noi sancțiuni împotriva Federației Ruse
▼ + stars: | 2021-06-20 | by ( Daniela Calmis | ) www.zdg.md time to read: +2 min

SUA pregătesc noi sancţiuni împotriva Moscovei, pe care o acuză că l-a otrăvit pe opozantul rus Alexei Navalny, a anunţat duminică, 20 iunie, Jake Sullivan, consilierul pentru securitate naţională al preşedintelui american Joe Biden, informează Agerpres. El a fost arestat în ianuarie şi judecat în scurt timp, după revenirea sa la Moscova, după cinci luni de convalescenţă în Germania, unde se recupera după ce a fost otrăvit. Opozantul a intrat subit în comă în august anul trecut, în Siberia. După evacuarea sa în Germania, mai multe laboratoare europene au estimat că a fost otrăvit cu ajutorul unui agent neurotoxic de concepţie sovietică, Noviciok. Putin a mai spus că Navalny s-a întors în mod deliberat în Rusia „pentru a fi arestat”.

Persons: Alexei Navalny, Jake Sullivan, Joe Biden, Vladimir Putin ., Jake Sullivan ., El, Opozantul, Vladimir Putin, Putin Organizations: Agerpres, american CNN Locations: SUA, Moscovei, american, Geneva, Rusiei, rusă, Moscova, Germania, Siberia, Rusia, ţară

☆ Palatul Sporturilor al USM, de 22 de ani carte de vizită și atelier de formare a elitei țării
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-18 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +8 min

Deschiderea festivă a edificiului a avut loc la 17 noiembrie 1998, acesta devenind parte integrantă, de bază a USM-ului. Ce înseamnă Palatul Sporturilor pentru USM? Una sunt orele de sport și cu totul altceva când e un hobby sau niște activități practicate din plăcere care contribuie și la menținerea sănătății atât a cadrelor didactice, cât și a studenților. : Putem spune că acum 22 de ani USM, capitala noastră, au primit un cadou minunat – Palatul Sporturilor? : Într-adevăr, un cadou-perspectivă, căci a reușit să fie pe parcursul anilor adevărat centru comunitar, carte de vizită a USM și a capitalei cu multe oportunități pentru publicul larg.

Persons: dna Otilia Dandara, Eduard Slobodaniuc, Ivan Luchianov, Dan Olaru, V.P, Împreună, Eduard Slobodeniuc, Viorica Organizations: Universitatea de Stat, Sporturilor, USM, Universitatea, Stat, RM, V.P, Sport, Palatului Sporturilor, al Universității de Stat Locations: Moldova, Sporturilor, Chișinău, USM, Europei, Londra, națională, Sporturilor ?, al

☆ PREMIERĂ! El Radu a lansat o nouă piesă „În Lumea Ta”
▼ + stars: | 2020-11-13 | by ( Redacția Regional | Pentru Că Știrile Contează | ) regional.md time to read: +1 min

EL Radu lansează „În lumea ta”, un single despre iubire și despre dorința de a-ți petrece timpul alături de cel care ți-a furat inima. Compusă de către artist alături de Ivan Lincovschi și Ștefan Roșcovan, „În lumea ta” este o piesă ce are la bază povestea unui îndrăgostit care simte din ce în ce mai mult că iubirea își face loc în viața sa. „«În Lumea Ta» este o piesă la care am muncit cel puțin jumătate de an și a avut mai multe variante. Mă bucur că a găsit timp să avem o colaborare exclusivă pentru proiectul «EL Radu». La aranjament a avut ceva de spus și Ștefan Roșcovan, un băiat mega talentat”, declară artistul.

Persons: Ivan Lincovschi, Ivan Linkovsky, Ștefan, . Organizations: Cat Music România Locations: Rusia, Republica Moldova

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