俄罗斯总统弗拉基米尔·普京对邻国乌克兰的“特殊军事行动”始于2月24日，俄罗斯军队从北部的白俄罗斯和东部的俄罗斯入侵。据美国官员称，乌克兰军队进行了“顽强抵抗”。
此后，俄罗斯军队在乌克兰东部有争议的顿巴斯地区发动了全面地面进攻，占领了战略港口城市马里乌波尔，并确保了通往莫斯科吞并的克里米亚半岛的沿海走廊。
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布林肯宣布第一船乌克兰谷物抵达遭受旱灾的非洲之角
美国国务卿安东尼·布林肯周二庆祝第一批乌克兰谷物抵达美国非洲之角——一个面临严重饥饿的地区-自从俄罗斯入侵开始。
“美国欢迎23300公吨乌克兰谷物由“勇敢的指挥官”号轮船运抵吉布提。布林肯在一份声明中说:“这些粮食将在埃塞俄比亚和索马里分发，这两个国家在经历了四年的干旱后处于危险的粮食不安全状态。”。
自联合国斡旋达成协议，允许船只再次离开乌克兰港口以来，这是第一批抵达该地区的船只。
据乌克兰官员称，最近几周，数十艘船只已经能够安全通过黑海。但美国国务院官员声称，俄罗斯的盟友，如叙利亚，不公平地从最近的出口中受益，这不利于世界粮食计划署确定面临更大需求的国家。
欧盟先发制人捐赠550万片碘化钾片保护乌克兰人免受潜在的辐射
欧盟委员会(European Commission)表示，周五收到了乌克兰政府的一项请求，要求提供碘化钾片，作为一种预防性安全措施，以提高扎波日日亚核电站周围的防护水平。欧洲应急协调中心通过欧盟乌克兰平民保护机制迅速调集了550万片碘化钾片，包括来自rescEU紧急储备的500万片和来自奥地利的50万片。
“任何核电站都不应该被用作战场，”欧盟危机管理专员雅奈兹·雷纳奇说。“平民生命受到威胁是不可接受的。Zaporizhzhia核电站周围的所有军事行动必须立即停止。”
参议员克洛布查尔、波特曼在乌克兰会见泽伦斯基
明尼苏达州民主党参议员艾米·克洛布查尔(Amy Klobuchar)和俄亥俄州共和党参议员罗布·波特曼(Rob Portman)在访问这个饱受战争蹂躏的国家时，会见了乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)和国防部长奥莱克西·列兹尼科夫(Oleksii Reznikov)。
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参议员艾米·克洛布查尔和罗布·波特曼参观圣迈克尔大教堂的广场.
“美国给予的支持一直是强有力的两党支持，我们希望这种支持继续下去，”Klobuchar告诉美国广播公司新闻。
波特曼注意到乌克兰现在在赫尔松取得进展的心理优势，赫尔松是六个月前俄罗斯人占领的第一个州。
他说，这表明“即使俄罗斯人在那个地区挖了壕沟，乌克兰人也能在进攻中取得进展”。“我的希望是，我们将继续看到，俄罗斯人最终会来到谈判桌前，停止这场非法的、完全无端的乌克兰战争。”
乌克兰称，俄罗斯军队炮击通往核电站的走廊
乌克兰总统弗拉基米尔·泽伦斯基(Volodymyr Zelenskyy)的高级顾问米哈伊洛·波多利亚克(Mykhailo Podolyak)表示，俄罗斯军队正在炮击国际原子能机构(International Atomic Energy Agency)代表团将前往乌克兰东南部扎波日希亚(Zaporizhzhia)电厂的走廊。
Podolyak说，俄罗斯军队可能正在炮击这条道路，以确保国际原子能机构的任务通过俄罗斯控制的领土到达工厂。
Russia-Ukraine live updates: Russian forces shelling corridors leading to nuclear plant, Ukraine says
Russian President Vladimir Putin's "special military operation" into neighboring Ukraine began on Feb. 24, with Russian forces invading from Belarus, to the north, and Russia, to the east. Ukrainian troops have offered "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The Russian military has since launched a full-scale ground offensive in eastern Ukraine's disputed Donbas region, capturing the strategic port city of Mariupol and securing a coastal corridor to the Moscow-annexed Crimean Peninsula.
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Blinken heralds arrival of first shipload of Ukrainian grain to drought-stricken Horn of Africa
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday celebrated the first shipment of Ukrainian grain to arrive in theHorn of Africa -- a region facing dire hunger-- since Russia’s invasion began.
"The United States welcomes the arrival in Djibouti of 23,300 metric tons of Ukrainian grain aboard the ship Brave Commander. This grain will be distributed within Ethiopia and Somalia, countries that are dangerously food insecure after four years of drought," Blinken said in a statement.
This is the first shipload to reach the region since a United Nations-brokered deal that allowed ships to leave Ukraine’s ports again.
According to Ukrainian officials, dozens of ships have been able to safely navigate the Black Sea in recent weeks. But State Department officials have claimed Russian allies, like Syria, have unfairly benefitted from recent exports, proving detrimental to countries the World Food Programme has determined are facing a greater level of need.
EU preemptively donates 5.5 million potassium iodide tablets to protect Ukrainians from potential radiation exposure
The European Commission said it received a request from the Ukrainian government on Friday for potassium iodide tablets as a preventative safety measure to increase the level of protection around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. The European Response Coordination Centre quickly mobilized 5.5 million potassium iodide tablets through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism for Ukraine, including 5 million from the rescEU emergency reserves and 500,000 from Austria.
“No nuclear power plant should ever be used as a war theatre," EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič said. "It is unacceptable that civilian lives are put in danger. All military action around the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant must stop immediately."
Sens. Klobuchar, Portman meet with Zelenskyy in Ukraine
Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Rob Portman, R-Ohio, met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov on a visit to the war-torn country.
"The support that the U.S. has given has been strongly bipartisan and we want that to continue," Klobuchar told ABC News.
Portman noted the psychological advantage of Ukraine now making advances in Kherson, which was the first oblast taken by the Russians six months ago.
It shows that "even when the Russians are dug in, as they are in that region, that Ukrainians can make progress in an offensive,” he said. "And my hope is that we will continue to see that to the point that the Russians will finally come to the bargaining table and stop this illegal, totally unprovoked war on Ukraine."
Russian forces shelling corridors leading to nuclear plant, Ukraine says
Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russian forces are shelling corridors the International Atomic Energy Agency mission would take to reach the Zaporizhzhia power plant in southeastern Ukraine.
Podolyak said Russian forces are probably shelling the path to ensure the IAEA mission pass through Russian-controlled territory to reach the plant.
