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Most of the Russian troops who occupied the Chernobyl nuclear power station after invading Ukraine have left the decommissioned plant, Ukraine's state nuclear company Energoatom said on March 31.

The United States has slapped sanctions on several Russian technology firms, including its largest chipmaker, and people associated with them over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Leaders from Armenia and Azerbaijan have agreed to meet in Brussels on April 6 as tensions rise over the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh.

The British government has announced sanctions on more than a dozen Russian media personalities and organizations that it accuses of spreading propaganda and disinformation about Moscow's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.

EU antitrust investigators have raided the German offices of Russia's state-owned energy giant Gazprom on suspicion that it had illegally pushed up prices in Europe, according to several news reports.

The West has voiced skepticism about Moscow's announcement that it would voluntarily reduce some military activity in Ukraine amid negotiations with Kyiv, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that Ukrainians "are not naive" as fighting continued to rage around Mariupol and other hot spots.

The United States has imposed sanctions on an Iran-based procurement agent and his network of companies for providing assistance to Iran's ballistic-missile program, the Treasury Department has said.

The Kremlin has downplayed talk of progress in peace talks with Ukraine to end Moscow's attack on its neighbor, saying there was nothing "too promising" in the results of a round of discussions in Istanbul.

The United Nations says more than four million Ukrainians have now left their country to flee Russia's unprovoked invasion.

In an interview with Current Time on March 29, U.S. Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland said Russia's negotiating position with Ukraine in Istanbul has been: "Capitulate and then maybe we'll talk." Ukraine, meanwhile, is willing to talk about neutrality and long-term leasing in Crimea, among other concessions, she adds. Even as Russia repositions its forces around Kyiv, Nuland says, the invading army has been "absolutely unwilling to have a full c...