Ukraine
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A protracted conflict can plunge 9 out of 10 Ukrainians into poverty or close to poverty and jeopardize the level of development achieved in nearly two decades.
This is estimated by the UN development program (UNPD), which takes stock of the situation in Ukraine in an analysis published on its website, highlighting that "the deep social and economic scars will last for generations".
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The toll of children killed since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine rises to 229.
This was reported by the Ukrainian Public Prosecutor's Office on Telegram, specifying that 421 minors were injured.
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US support for Ukraine's "sovereignty and security needs" is "unshakable".
The head of the Pentagon, Lloyd Austin, told Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov during a conversation on the situation on the battlefield.
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- The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky says that negotiations are underway to get people out of Mariupol, including Ukrainian fighters barricaded in the Azovstal steel plant.
Zelensky announced this in a video message, Ukrinform reports.
"We are pursuing very difficult and delicate negotiations to save our people from Mariupol, from Azovstal. We deal with this on a daily basis. And the main thing is that the agreements are respected," said the president.
