A former Norwegian lawmaker fought Russian forces in Ukraine, a Ukrainian official said.
Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to the interior minister, said Sandra Andersen Aira arrived about a week after the war began.
“She had never been to Ukraine before and went to Kiev, enlisting as a fight in the International Legion,” he added.
McDonald’s has begun the process of promoting its restaurants in Russia after more than 30 years in the country.
The Chicago burger giant said Alexander Govor, which operates 25 restaurants in Siberia, agreed to buy 850 Russian restaurants from McDonald’s and give them a new name.
McDonald’s disclosed the sale price.
The company said on Monday it would leave Russia after the invasion of Ukraine.
The sale deal is subject to regulatory approval and is expected to do so in a few weeks, McDonald’s said.
Govor, who has been fired since 2015, also agreed to keep McDonald’s 62,000 Russian workers for at least two years under conditions.
He also agreed to pay the wages of McDonald’s workers until the sale closed.
A Ukrainian doctor managed to record his stay in the besieged city of Mariupol on a bullet-sized data card.
Yuliia Paievska smuggled it into a tampon and used it to record her team’s frantic efforts for two weeks.
He passed the harrowing clips to the Associated Press as they departed in a rare humanitarian convoy.
The next day, the 53-year-old woman was captured by Russian soldiers, who described her as a candidate for the nationalist Azov battalion.
The army hospital where he led the evacuations of the wounded is affiliated with Azov and the video that recorded the show trying to save the wounded Russian infantrymen along with Ukrainian civilians.
On the first day of the war, Yuliia chronicled efforts to heal the wound on the open head of a Ukrainian soldier.
Later that night, two young men, a brother and a sister, arrive seriously wounded in a shooting at a checkpoint.
His parents died. At the end of the night, despite Yuliia’s efforts, so did the boy.
A March 10 clip shows two Russian infantrymen brutally pulled out of an ambulance by a Ukrainian soldier. One is in a wheelchair. The other is on his knees, his hands tied behind his back, with an apparent wound on his leg.
He asks, “Are you going to treat the Russians?”
“They probably wouldn’t be that nice to us,” she replies. “But I couldn’t do anything else. They are prisoners of war. “
Yuliia, whose name is Taira, 53, is now a prisoner of the Russians, along with many local officials, journalists and other prominent Ukrainians who have been kidnapped or captured.
The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine recorded 204 cases of enforced disappearances, claiming that some of the victims were possibly tortured and that five were later found dead.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has raised “significant concerns” with the Ukrainian president about the emerging cargo of food through the Russian invasion.
In a call Thursday morning, the two men show up to “open critical sea and land routes of origin for Ukraine’s grain reserves” and pledged to ask their groups to “urgently paint on next steps,” Downing Street said.
The prime minister also expressed his “unwavering admiration for the brave defenders of Mariupol” and suggested that Russia treat all prisoners of war with dignity and respect, No. 10 said.
This follows a UN call for Russia to open its ports due to the starvation point in the global achievement of a “new peak. “
Earlier, Moscow said the lifting of sanctions will have to be to open its access to Ukrainian ports, Interfax reported.
A Kharkiv cat that raised thousands of dollars for Ukrainian animal shelters, his Instagram account won a foreign award for his efforts.
Stepan, who has more than a million followers, won the World Influencers and Bloggers award.
First it went viral for the photos and videos in which he appeared sitting next to a glass of wine with disco lights in the background, very unimpressed.
CNN reported that Stepan and his landlord Anna were evacuated from the northeastern Ukrainian city shortly after the Russian invasion of the country began.