The United Nations said relief convoys have so far failed to reach Mariupol after the port city has been devastated by weeks of shelling by Russian forces, but aid including food and medicine arrived in the northeastern city of Sumy.
Direct talks between Russia and Ukraine were set to resume Friday, according to a top Ukrainian official. Russia agreed to hand back control of the Chernobyl nuclear plant to Ukraine, the International Atomic Energy Agency said, citing Ukrainian officials, after Moscow’s forces gained control of the highly contaminated area still suffering from the effects of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters.
