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US authorities estimate that 20 thousand Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine over the past five months. The assesment comes as Kiyv gears up to launch its spring counter-offensive. The US intelligence community hasn't detailed how it derived the figure, but says the battle for Bakhmut in the east has seen the highest number of casualties and is in line with some of the fiercest periods of fighting during World War II. FRANCE 24's Yinka Oyetade tells us more.
Russia's defence ministry says that more than a thousand Ukrainian soldiers have surrendered in Mariupol, a strategic port city in eastern Ukraine that has been besieged by Moscow's troops for over a month.
All the latest developments from the Israel Hamas war.
Over 200,000 minors are estimated to have been sexually abused in Spain by the Roman Catholic clergy since 1940, according to an independent commission published Friday. The report did not give a specific figure but said a poll of over 8,000 people found that 0.6 percent of Spain's adult population of around 39 million people said they had suffered sexual abuse by members of the clergy when they were still children. FRANCE 24's Sarah Morris reports from Madrid, Spain.
Firefighters put out the remains of a fire after a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rig, President Volodymyr Zelensky's hometown. The missile attack hit a police building killing at least one policeman, and injured dozens of other people. The attack is part of a new wave of Russian air strikes in the centre and east of Ukraine.
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