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A woman walks through the site of an explosion in Kiev, Ukraine on Friday, April 29, 2022
POLISH anti-war activists have voiced opposition to their government’s plans to send arms to Ukraine as Russia intensified its bombing of the latter’s capital Kiev.
Two people, including Vera Gyrych, a journalist for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, were killed during Russian air strikes on Kiev that supposedly targeted a rocket factory — but took place as UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres was visiting the city in a bid to promote peace talks.
Russia announced the surrender of a British volunteer fighting with the Ukrainians in Mykolaiv region, while Ukraine said it had a plan aimed at evacuating civilians holed up in the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol, the port city otherwise under Russian control.
Poland’s anger over Ukraine’s celebration of the Nazi collaborationist UPA reflects more than historical grievance, says KENNY COYLE
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys