• Direct witness The Chechen battalion fighting for Ukraine: "We love to fight during Ramadan, we have more options to go to paradise"

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday promised a total victory against the "evil" embodied by Russia, on the first anniversary of the liberation of Bucha, a city turned into a symbol of the atrocities attributed to the invading troops.

"We'll win, it's for sure. The Russian evil will fall, precisely here in Ukraine and it will no longer be able to rise," Zelenskiy said in Bucha alongside the prime ministers of Croatia, Slovakia and Slovenia and the president of Moldova.

In Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree validating a new foreign policy doctrine, which Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said emphasizes "the existential nature of Western threats" against his country. Lavrov also accused the United States and its allies of waging a "hybrid war" against Moscow.

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Medvedev expresses his satisfaction with the end of the ban on Russian tennis players at Wimbledon

Russian Daniil Medvedev, a new finalist of the Miami Masters 1000, said on Friday he was "happy" about the decision of the Wimbledon tournament to allow the participation of tennis players from Russia and Belarus again.

"I'm happy to know. I've always said that if I can play Wimbledon, I'll be very happy to be there," the former world number one said after beating compatriot Karen Khachanov in the Miami semifinals on Friday.

"It's a tournament I love. It's the only Grand Slam where I haven't reached the quarter-finals yet," he recalled. "And I can't say I hate weed. I rather like it. So I'm really looking forward to doing well there. It's a beautiful tournament and I'm happy to have the opportunity to play this year."

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Russia takes over UN Security Council presidency amid complaints from Kiev

Russia assumes this Saturday the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council, a responsibility that it will occupy for a month and that is fundamentally protocolary, but that has angered the Ukrainian government and has generated calls for boycott.

During April, the Russian delegation will be in charge of managing the work agenda and chairing the meetings of the highest decision-making body of the United Nations, which is headed each month by a member state based on a rotation in alphabetical order.

One of the main benefits of the post is that the Presidency can organize special meetings on matters that it considers particularly important and which are often attended by members of the Government.

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