A U.S. think tank assessed this week that the Kremlin was acknowledging Russian defeats in Ukraine to shift blame away from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The Disrupted Ukrainian Scholars and Students initiative, created in the wake of Russia's attack on Ukraine, has already distributed about $600,000 and helped more than 30 students and scholars
The death toll from a Russian rocket attack as Ukraine observed its Independence Day has risen to 25, including an 11-year-old boy found under the rubble of a house and a six-year-old killed in a car fire near a train station that was the target, a Ukrainian official said Thursday.