Russia unleashed another night of attacks against the Ukrainian port cities of Mykolaiv and Odesa on Thursday, a day after warning that all ships headed to those ports could be treated as hostile, Ukrainian officials said.
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Russia's invasion has helped develop pediatric cancer care in Ukraine, experts say, thanks to more international cooperation. But patients and their families are facing the dual agonies of life-threatening illness and a country engulfed by war.
Ukraine is allowing soldiers who were driven from their hometowns after Russia invaded last year to request to take part in the fight to liberate them.
"I want to see my parents, the faster the better," one soldier said.