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A firefighter works to extinguish a fire after shelling in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 13, 2022
FIGHTING continued in Ukraine today as Russia claimed that more than 1,026 troops had surrendered to its forces in the south-eastern port city of Mariupol.
President Vladimir Putin emphasised that the invasion of Ukraine would “continue until its full completion and the fulfilment of the tasks which have been set.”
Hopes that peace talks might achieve an early end to the conflict have faded as Ukraine accuses Russia of war crimes, including targeting civilians with rocket strikes and murdering others in occupied suburbs north of Kiev, from which the Russian army has since withdrawn.
Washington plays innocent bystander while pouring weapons and intelligence into Ukraine, just as it enables the Gaza genocide — but every US escalation leaves Ukraine weaker than the neutrality deal rejected in 2022, argue MEDEA BENJAMIN and NICOLAS JS DAVIES
