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Ukraine national security chief meets with NATO envoy; Alleged Russian collaborator connected to Shariya detained near Odesa; Veterans hotline goes online to provide services

The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman and Pyotr Aven should not have been included on a sanctions list for the period of February 2022 to March 2023.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British Foreign Secretary David Cameron urged Congress on April 9 to approve new military aid for Ukraine, saying the stalled funding was critical for U.S., European, and world security.

Russian anti-war activist Aleksandr Demidenko, whose death in custody last week was announced to his family by his lawyer on April 8, committed suicide while in pretrial detention, Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service said.

A court in the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk on April 10 sentenced a 20-year-old man to nine years in prison for attempting to join the so-called Russian Volunteers' Corps (RDK) that has fought alongside Ukraine's armed forces against occupying Russian troops.

S Jaishankar affirmed that Russian artillery firing stopped in Kharkiv on the route that Indians were taking. 

The Ukrainian Red Cross Society (URCS) continues to help residents of the five-kilometer border zone of Sumy region.

Judge Aizhan Qulbaeva on April 10 banned journalists from the high-profile murder trial of former cabinet member Quandyq Bishimbaev after several members of the jury were shown on a television program a day earlier.

A court in the Russian city of Perm on April 10 issued an arrest warrant for Robert Latypov, the self-exiled former chief of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial human right group's branch in the city.

The top U.S. general in Europe has warned that Ukraine cannot sustain its fight against Russia alone as a major spending bill languishes in the House of Representatives, blocked by a small number of Republicans who believe domestic matters should take priority.