Intense Fighting Continues in Bakhmut as Russia-Ukraine War Enters Day 418

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Russia's Wagner Group released over 100 Ukrainian prisoners of war for Orthodox Easter, while continuing to capture city blocks in Bakhmut. The death toll from a missile attack on Sloviansk has risen to 11, and Russian shelling in Kherson killed two women. Diplomatically, the EU criticized Poland and Hungary's bans on Ukrainian food imports, while Brazil's President called for a group of non-involved countries to broker peace. Ukrainian ice hockey players have been forced to train with air raid sirens interrupting practice.
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- Battle for Ukraine's Bakhmut Reaches Highest Intensity Yet The Wall Street Journal
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- Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 417 of the invasion The Guardian
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