Ukraine live briefing: Russia takes U.N. Security Council presidency; calls mount for release of U.S. reporter

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Ukraine live briefing: Russia takes U.N. Security Council presidency; calls mount for release of U.S. reporter
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The White House said Russia has 'no place on the U.N. Security Council.” Calls are growing for the release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich.

for Gershkovich’s release and said there was no indication he was “doing anything other than legitimate investigative reporting.”Sergiy Kyslytsya, Ukraine’s permanent representative at the United Nations, likened the decision to an April Fool’s Day joke. Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said “an entity that wages an aggressive war, violates the norms of humanitarian & criminal law, destroys the UN Charter, neglects nuclear safety can’t head the world’s key security body.

that the four-year program “will support economic growth, strengthen good governance and anti-corruption efforts, and set the foundation for longer-term reconstruction.”its Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Saturday, Reuters reported. “The volume of supplies of the most demanded ammunition has been determined. Necessary measures are being taken to increase them,” he said. Shoigu has faced criticism from Russian mercenary group Wagner for a lack of support and supplies to front-line troops.

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