Russian Defense Minister Shoigu says 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East are ready to fight with Russian-backed forces in Ukraine, Reuters reports.
, a move they called a"war crime" and one of the Kremlin's"gross violations of norms and principles of international law."
According to a statement from Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian military kidnapped Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the city of approximately 150,000, after"cynically accusing" him of"terrorism.
It called on the international community"to respond immediately to the abduction of Ivan Fedorov and other civilians, and to increase pressure on Russia to end its barbaric war against the Ukrainian people."5h ago / 9:34 PM UTCRussian state-funded media, citing community guidelines that prohibit content that denies, minimizes or trivializes well-documents violent events.
"We are now removing content about Russia’s invasion in Ukraine that violates this policy," the company, which is owned by Google,The video-sharing platform said it had also recently paused all YouTube ads in Russia."We’ve now extended this to all of the ways to monetize on our platform in Russia," YouTube added.
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