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Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 14.
Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires.
A Russian barrage of drones and missiles left at least three people dead in Ukraine’s capital, while industrial sites in Russia were set ablaze by Ukrainian strikes.
Russian officials say more than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down, sparking a wildfire and setting an apartment block alight in one of the largest barrages over Russian skies.
As Russians seized parts of eastern and southern Ukraine in the opening stages of the war, mayors, civilian administrators and others, including nuclear power plant workers, say they have been abducted, threatened or beaten to force their cooperation.
Pope Francis invoked “gestures of peace in these days marked by the horror of war” in an Easter vigil homily in St. Peter’s Basilica attended by the mayor of the occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol and three Ukrainian lawmakers.
