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The German Chancellor Friedrich Merz asked the Chinese President Xi Jinping to support the achievement of an armistice in the war in Ukraine, said Merz 'spokesman after the two leaders held a call on Friday.

“The Federal Chancellor reported on the joint efforts of Europe and the United States to achieve an early ceasefire. He demanded support for these efforts,” said the spokesman in a statement.

Top civil servants from the seven richest democracies in the world raised strong differences in the US tariffs and agreed to counteract the worldwide “economic imbalances” of China.

In a communiqué that was published on Thursday, the group of seven financial ministers and governors of the Central Bank in the Canadian Rockies spent their traditional defense of free trade and weakened their references to the War of Russia in Ukraine compared to last year. However, they agreed that further sanctions against Russia could be imposed if the two countries did not reach an armistice.

It is reported that the first day in a three -day exchange of prisoners of war between Ukraine and Russia is underway.

US President Donald Trump jumped the gun when he used to publish on social media that the exchange of 2,000 prisoners of war was completed. Since then, Ukrainian officials have said that the exchange is far from being finished. Earlier swaps were derailed after the start.

Accordingly The timesThe exchange is expected to take place around 2 p.m. local time, with prisoners and some civilians cross the Belarusian border to a location near the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.

Russia's top diplomat has claimed the peace talks with Ukraine not to prevent and be taught in the Vaticans due to religious differences.

The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced a conference in Moscow that the Vatican was “not very pleasant” to organize the talks between the two Orthodox Christian countries.

“It is not entirely elegant for orthodox conditions to discuss topics in connection with the extermination of causes [of the conflict] In a Catholic place, ”said Lavrov.

He repeated propaganda claims that Ukraine tries to eliminate the Orthodox Church, and added that the Vatican is “not very pleasant to accommodate delegations from two Orthodox countries”.

Last summer, Ukraine banned the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (UOC) after being accused of distributing pro-Russian propaganda in times of the war and of living spies that contested it.

The popularity of the UOC, which is closely linked to the Russian Orthodox Church, whose head referred to the invasion of Vladimir Putin's Ukraine as a “Holy War”, declined in Ukraine as a result of the Russian aggression.

Previously, we reported that US President Donald Trump claimed that a great prisoner of war between Ukraine and Russia had just taken place.

It is extremely unusual that an official outside Ukraine and Russia announces such an exchange, although the agreement for the exchange of 2,000 prisoners of war in Istanbul, some of the Trump administration, was arranged during the past week.

The Financial times, Coating on civil servants now reports that the exchange agreed in Turkey will take place in three days in three days. It seems that the first stage of the exchange has started.

Soldiers were trained in southeastern Ukraine.

The recruits complete military training for the 65th separate mechanized brigade.

Ukraine has tried to recruit enough soldiers to continue to defend themselves against the penetrating armed forces in Russia.

While Moscow, according to European secret services The economist At the beginning of this year they want to employ another 4,000 soldiers every month.

High Russian victims reduce the importance of this inequality, but the lack of workers in Ukraine remains one of the most urgent problems in the country.

US President Donald Trump said on Friday that a large prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine had just been completed.

“A great exchange of the prisoners was just completed between Russia and Ukraine. It will come into force shortly. Congratulations on both sides at this negotiation,” he wrote on social media.

“That could lead to something great ???”

Neither Ukraine nor Russia confirmed that a swap had taken place, although both sides said they had agreed to the prisoners of war yesterday.

Below you will find the latest map of the full invasion of Russia in Ukraine.

The card was provided by the British Ministry of Defense, which published regular information on the war against Ukraine.

Let's take it away from the war in Ukraine for a moment to bring you news from Afghanistan.

The Taliban government told Reuters That they are in advanced talks with Russia for banks from both economies of sanctions to settle trading transactions worth hundreds of millions of dollars in their local currencies.

The incumbent Minister of Commerce in Afghanistan, Haji Nooruddin Azizi, said that the proposal with Russia was processed by technical teams from both countries.

The step comes when Moscow focuses on using national currencies to avert the trust from the dollar and, as Afghanistan, is exposed to a severe decline in the US currency to the country due to auxiliary cuts. Both countries were hit hard by sanctions.

“We are currently involved with special discussions on this matter, since the regional and global economic perspectives, sanctions and the challenges with which Afghanistan is currently confronted with, as well as those Russia. Technical discussions are underway,” said Azizi in an interview in Kabul.

The Afghan government made China similar proposals, said the minister, and discussions were held with the Chinese embassy in Kabul.

A suburb of the capital of Ukraine was hit by a Russian drone attack that damaged several houses.

The state emergency services of Ukraine have published photos that showed the destruction in the Obukhiv district south of Kyiv.