After a grinding winter in which Russian forces failed to regain battlefield momentum, both Moscow and Kyiv are girding for a new Ukrainian counteroffensive that officials have signaled is imminent. When it comes, it's likely to be a major turning point in the 14-month-old invasion.
A large fire broke out in Sosva, a village in Russia's Sverdlovsk region, killing one person and destroying 90 buildings, the Emergency Situations Ministry reported.
Russian Deputy Prosecutor-General Anatoly Razinkin said on April 26 that 15,000 cases of men being called up to the military illegally had been registered.
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