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- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, and EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell in Kyiv.
- The UN General Assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the UN Human Rights Council, citing concerns over human rights abuses in Ukraine.
- Russia has responded by saying the move is illegal and politically motivated.
- The US Congress votes to ban Russian oil imports and suspend Russia’s “most favoured nation” trade status.
- The European Union has agreed to ban coal imports from Russia, an official says.
- The Kremlin has acknowledged suffering “significant” troop losses in Ukraine.
Here are all the latest updates:
Pink Floyd members reunite to record song for Ukraine
British rock band Pink Floyd will release a new song on Friday to raise money for humanitarian relief in Ukraine, featuring the vocals of a Ukrainian singer who quit an international tour to fight for his country and was wounded.
The single “Hey Hey, Rise Up” – Pink Floyd’s first original new music in almost 30 years – was recorded last week and highlights singing by Andriy Khlyvnyuk from Ukrainian band Boombox, which was taken from a instagram post.
“Then I saw this incredible video on Instagram, where he stands in a square in Kyiv with this beautiful gold-domed church and sings in the silence of a city with no traffic or background noise because of the war,” guitarist David Gilmour said on Pink Floyd’s website.
“It was a powerful moment that made me want to put it to music.”
Ukrainians arriving at Mexico-US border doubles in less
The number of Ukrainians arriving at the US-Mexico border to seek asylum in the United States has more than doubled in less than a week, officials have said.
Lying on plastic mattresses, hundreds of Ukrainians including families waited in a crowded shelter run by the local government in the Mexican border city of Tijuana this week.
Enrique Lucero, director of the Mexican city of Tijuana’s immigration services, said about 2,829 Ukrainians were waiting, more than double the 1,200 counted last Friday. Nearly two-thirds of them were in shelters, with the rest in hotels and churches, he said.
UN rights council suspension shows Russia as ‘international pariah’: Biden
Biden has welcomed the UN vote to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council as “meaningful” step that shows Moscow has become an “international pariah”.
“Russia has no place on the Human Rights Council,” Biden says in a statement. “After today’s historic vote, Russia will not be able to participate in the Council’s work or spread its disinformation there as the Council’s Commission of Inquiry investigates Russia’s violations and abuses of human rights in Ukraine.”
Russia acknowledges ‘significant’ troops losses in Ukraine
Russia has appeared to give the most damning assessment so far of its invasion, describing the “tragedy” of mounting troop losses and the economic hit it has suffered since the war began in late February.
“We have significant losses of troops,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Britain’s Sky News.
“It’s a huge tragedy for us,” he said.
EU approves embargo on Russian coal, official says
The European Union has said it approved an embargo on Russian coal as well as the closing of the bloc’s ports to Russian vessels.
An official from the French presidency of the European Council said the moves spearhead a “very substantial” fifth round of sanctions against Moscow, which will also include a ban on high-tech exports.
The coal ban should cost Russia $4.4bn (4 billion euros) a year, the EU’s executive commission said.
US Congress votes to suspend Russia trade status, enact oil ban
The US Congress has voted overwhelmingly to suspend normal trade relations with Russia and ban imports of Russian oil.
“We in Congress must do all we can to end the slaughter of innocent civilians, total destruction of cities, and assault on democracy in Ukraine,” said Representative Richard Neal.
The measures now go to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.
Read more here.
US plans to starve Russia’s ‘war machine’: Official
The United States is ramping up sanctions against Russia to deprive its “war machine” of money, US Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo has said, but added that curbing Moscow’s main source of funding – exports – will take time.
“What this means is that Russia will be deprived of the capital it needs to build up its economy, but also to invest in its war machine,” Adeyemo said in an interview with the Reuters news agency.
“Because of our ability to produce energy at home, we were able to ban the Russian import of oil to America rather quickly,” he said. “It’s going to take them more time but what they’re doing is they’re reducing their dependence over time.”
UN aid chief ‘not optimistic’ about Ukraine ceasefire
The United Nations’ humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths has said he is not optimistic about securing a ceasefire to halt the fighting in Ukraine following high-level talks in Moscow and Kyiv.
“I think it’s not going to be easy because the two sides, as I know now … have very little trust in each other,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press.
“I’m not optimistic,” he added later.
Russian Nobel laureate Muratov attacked with red paint
The Russian co-winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, Dmitry Muratov, has said that he was attacked on a train with red paint, in an apparent protest at his newspaper’s coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
“They poured oil paint with acetone all over the compartment. Eyes burning badly,” Muratov’s Novaya Gazeta investigative newspaper quoted him as saying.
Pictures posted by the newspaper on the Telegram messaging app showed Muratov with red paint on his head and clothes and around his sleeping compartment on a Moscow-Samara train.
Welcome to Al Jazeera’s continuing coverage of the war in Ukraine.
Read all the updates from Thursday, April 7 here.
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