Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said his country's support for Ukraine was unwavering during a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on April 3, the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz authorities to repeal a controversial "foreign representatives" law that the Central Asian nation’s President Sadyr Japarov signed on April 2, saying it is a replica of a repressive Russian law on "foreign agents."
Ukraine's fifth president, Petro Poroshenko, told Al-Jazeera television on April 2 that he plans to run for president again after Russia's ongoing invasion of his country is over.
Police in St. Petersburg have opened a probe into the disappearance of a Chechen woman whose whereabouts have been unknown since August when she was sent back to Chechnya, where rights defenders say she may have been the victim of a so-called honor killing.