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Russian President Vladimir Putin’s administration has recommended placing people inside ministries, government agencies, and state-owned companies to spread the Kremlin's political agenda among employees -- a move that harks back to Soviet times -- amid concern over fraying support.

More than 60 percent of the towns in Ukraine's southeastern Zaporizhzhya region are controlled by the Russian military. But the Ukrainian military governor of the region says the front lines are holding even as fighting has grown more intense in recent days.

Along the front lines amid the war with Russia, in the capital, Kyiv, and in nearby countries where people have sought refuge, Ukrainians celebrated Orthodox Easter on April 24.

Ukrainian officials and human rights monitors are documenting allegations of murder, torture, abduction, rape, looting, and other crimes by Russian forces occupying southern and eastern regions of the country, even as fighting intensifies.

Ukrainians are marking Orthodox Easter with prayers for those fighting on the front lines and others trapped beyond them in places like Mariupol, while President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed in an Easter message that no "wickedness" will destroy the country.

The head of Russia's space agency has said the country plans to deploy its first military unit armed with the nuclear-capable Sarmat, a new intercontinental ballistic missile, within months.

Hundreds of people from Latvia's Russian-speaking community participated in a protest in the streets of the capital, Riga, against Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine.

Kherson's mayor discusses the lists and selective raids that have become part of life under Russian occupation as officials in Kyiv warn about a potential staged vote meant to carve off parts of Ukraine's south.

After quite a long three-year hiatus, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research has renewed its work with the LHC targeting a four-year-long research roadmap.

Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov has said that Ukraine is expecting an invitation to a NATO summit next week in Germany initiated by the United States.