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Russia accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately attacking a hospital in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine in what it called a war crime that killed 14 people and wounded 24 patients and medical staff. There was no immediate response to the allegations from Ukraine.
\nA Russian attack killed three people in a residential district of the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka, the region\u2019s governor said.
\nUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the situation at the front as \u201cextremely acute\u201d, particularly in the eastern Donetsk region where Russia is stepping up an offensive.
\nZelenskyy reported significant battles for Vuhledar, to the southwest of Donetsk\u2019s regional capital, and Bakhmut, to the northeast.<\/p>\n
Weapons<\/strong><\/p>\n German arms maker Rheinmetall is ready to significantly boost its output of tank and artillery munitions to satisfy strong demand in Ukraine and the West, and may start producing HIMARS multiple rocket launchers in Germany, CEO Armin Papperger told the Reuters news agency. Diplomacy<\/strong><\/p>\n North Korea has again criticised a US decision to send tanks to Ukraine, calling it an \u201cunethical crime\u201d aimed at perpetuating an unstable international situation. Sanctions<\/strong><\/p>\n Ukraine imposed sanctions on 182 Russian and Belarusian companies, and three individuals, in the latest of a series of steps by Zelenskyy to block their links to his country. Russia accused the Ukrainian military of deliberately attacking a hospital in a Russian-held area of eastern Ukraine in what it called a war crime that killed 14 people and wounded 24 patients and medical staff. There was no immediate response to the allegations from Ukraine. A Russian attack killed three people in a residential district […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":184171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10221280388112155_325455220908133":"","twitter_917774835383787521_917774835383787521":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184170"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184173,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184170\/revisions\/184173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wardoon.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTalks are under way among Ukraine and its allies about Kyiv\u2019s requests for long-range missiles that it says are needed to prevent Russia from destroying its cities, a top aide to Zelenskyy said.
\nUkraine has been promised 321 heavy tanks by several countries, its ambassador to France said.
\nPoland will send an additional 60 tanks to Ukraine on top of the 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks it has pledged, the Polish prime minister said in an interview with Canadian television.<\/p>\n
\nRussia\u2019s deputy foreign minister, Sergei Ryabkov, will hold a meeting with Lynne Tracy, the new US ambassador to Moscow, early next week, the RIA news agency reported.
\nZelenskyy condemned the idea of neutrality in sports at a time when his country\u2019s athletes fight and die in war, while their Russian counterparts might be allowed to compete.<\/p>\n
\nThe US Department of the Treasury\u2019s top sanctions official on a trip to Turkey and the Middle East next week will warn countries and businesses that they could lose US market access if they do business with entities subject to US curbs as Washington cracks down on Russian attempts to evade sanctions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"