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🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: Russian strikes on railway infrastructure in central Ukraine kill 5, injure 18 - Kyiv

https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-iskps-uzbekistan-directed-attack-bolsters-rhetoric-with-deeds

🇮🇱🇵🇸The New Arab: Three Palestinian farmers were wounded Saturday when Israeli settlers fired at them in the southern occupied West Bank, local media reported. The settlers, who were armed with rifles, opened fire at the Palestinians while they were tending to their land outside the town of Surif, northwest of Hebron, the Palestinian Authority's WAFA news agency reported citing local witnesses.

AFP - Military spending reaches record levels: report. Despite the economic fallout of the Covid pandemic, countries around the world increased their arsenals, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦Times of Israel: In the highest-level American visit to the capital since Russia invaded in late February, top envoy Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Ukraine’s president, Volodomyr Zelenskyy, and his advisers that the US would provide more than $300 million in foreign military financing and had approved a $165 million sale of ammunition.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Fires reported in Russia’s Bryansk

🇷🇺🇺🇦Financial Times: Officials in Kyiv are concerned Putin may go further than Russia’s stated goal of capturing the eastern Donbas border region and instead try to seize the whole of the south-east, cutting Ukraine off from the sea, according to people involved in trying to end the war.

🇸🇩AFP: A Darfur aid group said that at least 160 people were killed Sunday in violent clashes between rival groups The violence first erupted on Friday and is still ongoing in the Krink region of West Darfur, the group said

🇫🇷AFP: A police source tells AFP that a vehicle in central Paris was driving against traffic and sped towards officers who opened fire, killing two

🇷🇺🇺🇦AFP: An advisor to Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said he met with top US officials in Kyiv on Sunday, as Mariupol's defences were "already on the brink of collapse" and Ukraine was in dire need of offensive weapons

🇷🇺🇺🇦French Defence Ministry assessment of Ukraine - April 24

🇷🇺🇺🇦ISW/CT maps of Ukraine for April 24