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Zelenskyy visits Belgrade as Russia attacks Kyiv region, by Jovana Gec and Volodymyr Yurchuk | AP  BELGRADE — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky denounced Russia’s latest deadly attacks on Kyiv on Saturday as he visited Serbia, one of the few European countries that has maintained friendly relations with Moscow throughout its invasion of Ukraine. Click HERE for report including photos. Click HERE for most of same AP report in Spanish, and HERE for others

Ukraine strikes oil refinery in Russia’s Krasnodar region in drone attack. From Reuters. A fire at the Ilsky oil refinery in Russia‘s southern Krasnodar region has been extinguished, local authorities said today, adding that it had been caused by debris from a Ukrainian drone. READ MORE . . .

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