On April 28, 1945, hungry American soldiers unintendedly stole then 13-year-old Meri Mion’s birthday cake from a windowsill as they entered the village of San Pietro to fight one of the final battles of World War II in Italy. Some 77 years later, soldiers from U.S. Army Garrison Italy righted that w.
• Kyiv destroys monument symbolizing Russia-Ukraine friendship: Kyiv authorities dismantled a statue of two workers representing the reunification of Ukraine and Russia, two months after the beginning of Vladimir Putin’s invasion. Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said that in the capital city alone, 60.