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  • Zelensky visits troops as Ukraine claims gained ground near key city

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday he had visited troops fending off Russian advances near the embattled city of Kupiansk that Moscow claimed to have captured last month, which Kyiv denies. Ukraine said earlier its army had retaken two settlements in the northern Kharkiv region and pushed Russian troops back in Kupiansk – a strategically important city and a key railway hub.

  • France to vaccinate cattle against lumpy skin disease as farmers protest mass culling policy

    France’s agriculture ministry said on Saturday that one million head of cattle would be vaccinated against lumpy skin disease in the coming weeks, as farmers blocked roads to protest mass culling measures ordered after multiple outbreaks of the virus.