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Fighting raged Saturday for Ukraine’s strategic Lysychansk, as Kyiv denied a claim by Moscow-backed separatists that they had encircled the eastern city.
Clashes have been intense in Lysychansk, the last major city in the Luhansk region of the Donbas still in Ukrainian hands, located across the river from neighbouring Severodonetsk seized by Russia last week.
Although the Ethiopian federal government repeatedly stated its readiness to resolve the situation in the northern part of the country, the TPLF has continued belligerence and beating drums of war, state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) quoted Legesse Tulu, Ethiopian government spokesperson, as saying.
He said the rebel group is mobilizing the people of Tigray for another devastating war, and eventually disrupt the upcoming agricultural work that will ultimately cause another round of disaster to the East African country.
Nationalist monks have been forming militias in the resistance stronghold of Sagaing Region to counter people’s defense forces (PDFs) fighting Myanmar’s regime, according to residents.
Led by influential monk U Wasawa from the ultranationalist Association for Protection of Race and Religion (APRR), better known by its Burmese acronym Ma Ba Tha, monks have been rallying villagers to support military rule.
Two police officers have been killed and another wounded in a rebel attack on a police station in northwest Benin, local media and police sources said, in what appears to be a spillover effect of unrest in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Niger.
Fighters descended on the Dassari police station at about 2am local time (01:00 GMT) on Sunday and opened fire, killing two officers before they were pushed back, a police officer who did not wish to be named told Reuters news agency.
Chisinau doing everything possible not to allow unrecognized Transnistria to threaten Moldova, Ukraine.
This was stated by President of Moldova Maia Sandu, who spoke at a joint press conference with President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv, Ukrinform reports.