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Ukraine's embattled frontline town of Avdiivka is in danger of being captured by Russian forces, the White House says, urging the US House to pass vital military aid for Kyiv. "Avdiivka is at risk of falling into Russian control," National Security Council spokesman John Kirby tells reporters during a White House briefing. SOUNDBITE
Images show Ukrainian heavy T72B3 tanks and BMP-2 infantry vehicles on the road heading to the frontline in eastern Ukraine. IMAGES
Ukrainian police officers open fire at what the Ukrainian presidency claims are "kamikaze drones" swooping low across the skies of Kyiv, with smoke rising from where the drones struck. IMAGES
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visits the frontline in eastern Ukraine near Avdiivka, a day before the military announced that two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes with Russian-backed separatists, testing a ceasefire brokered last year that had brought relative calm to the simmering trench conflict. IMAGES
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the country, it created a critical shortage of face masks. To help protect workers in essential services across the country, GM launched a rapid-response project to produce masks at scale on 20 March. Seven days later, the team had produced its first sample on the new production line. By next week, GM expects to deliver its first 20,000 masks to frontline workers.
Meet Katja Kostjunina, an aspiring professional referee who has been generating a lot of buzz in her home town of Krasnoyarsk. She uploaded some of her amateur modeling photos on Instagram and they received attention from all over the world, bringing Katja job offers and fame, which caught her totally off guard. Although she looks like a regular girl when she's on the pitch, she looks completely different in the studio.