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🇷🇺🇺🇦Maps of Ukraine - April 22

🇦🇫AFP: At least 33 killed in Afghanistan mosque blast - Taliban spokesman

🇫🇷🇷🇺🇺🇦French volunteer allegedly fighting for the Russia-aligned DPR

🇷🇺🇺🇦Statista: Where military aid to Ukraine comes from

🇺🇸🇸🇴US Department of State offers $6 million USD for leader of Al-Qaeda affiliated Al-Shabaab group

🇷🇺🇺🇦French Defence Ministry assessment of Ukraine

🇷🇺🇺🇦AP: The U.N. migration agency says the number of people displaced within Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began has risen to 7.7 million. The Geneva-based International Organization for Migration said Thursday that more than 600,000 additional people were displaced within the country in the first 17 days of April. The figures from the IOM came a day after the U.N. refugee agency said the number of people who have fled Ukraine since the war began on Feb. 24 has risen to more than 5 million.

🇷🇺🇺🇦AP: Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, two Western officials said Russia might be able to surround and destroy the bulk of Ukraine’s forces and make territorial gains. An aim of taking all of the Donbas and securing a land bridge to Crimea is “potentially within reach” for Russia’s forces.

🇺🇸🇷🇺🇺🇦AP: - $3.4 billion of US security assistance provided since Russia began its invasion Feb. 24. - A senior U.S. defense official said the first of the 72 howitzers are expected to begin moving to Europe by this weekend. Of 18 other 155mm howitzers that Biden approved last week for shipment to Ukraine, an unspecified number already are in Europe, and U.S. howitzer training for Ukrainian personnel began Wednesday in an undisclosed country outside of Ukraine.

🇭🇳🇺🇸AFP: Former Honduran president Juan Orlando Hernandez was extradited to the United States Thursday to stand trial for allegedly aiding the smuggling of hundreds of tons of cocaine to America and receiving millions of dollars in bribes

🇷🇺🇺🇦New York Times: The U.S. will outfit five artillery battalions for Ukraine and provide new drones that explode on impact.

🇷🇺🇺🇦Foreign Policy reporter Jack Detsch: Zelensky tonight said Russian troops in Ukraine’s Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions are collecting information on residents, including passport data, and asking them to fill out questionnaires under the guise of a census to prepare a trumped-up independence referendum.