Kyiv, Russia and Ukraine
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Russia and Ukraine held a second round of peace talks where they agreed to exchange more prisoners and to return the bodies of 12,000 dead soldiers.
A planned exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war failed to take place on Saturday, with Moscow accusing Kyiv of postponing the swap at the last minute, which Ukrainian officials dismissed as more “dirty games” from the Kremlin.
Donald Trump says Vladimir Putin told him Moscow would have to respond to Ukraine's attacks on Russian airfields. Meanwhile, the US president's NATO ambassador has demanded that countries agree to increase defence spending by 5% "now".
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Russia launches its largest airstrike on Ukraine and hits Kiev, where at least three people have diedUkrainian air defense units shot down 406 out of 452 Russian drones and missiles during a nighttime attack on Friday against the capital, Kiev, and other regions. Far from reaching an agreement for a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine,
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Russian ballistic missiles have been launched toward Ukraine from multiple directions, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Telegram Friday.
Air defense has been activated in Kyiv amid reports of airstrikes targeting Chernihiv, a city in northern Ukraine, ABC News confirmed.
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Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that its forces had carried out a massive and successful strike on military and military-related targets in Ukraine overnight in response to what it called Ukrainian "terrorist acts" against Russia.
The European Union is set to reinstate tariffs on Ukrainian agricultural exports on June 6. This is the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion that the EU will not renew an agreement suspending trade barriers between Ukraine and Europe.