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Ukraine continues to hit targets within Russia, which maintains the initiative at the front

Ukraine continues to hit targets within the Russian Federation and managed to damage several fuel tanks in the Rostov region last night with a drone attack, but the Russian forces maintain the initiative on the battlefield and continue to gain ground on the eastern front.

According to the Russian authorities, the attack has caused a fire in the aforementioned infrastructures in the southern Russian city of Azov.

Anonymous sources from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have claimed the attack in statements to several Ukrainian media. According to these sources, the attacked infrastructures belong to two different oil product companies. One of them has up to 22 fuel tanks.

According to Russian Telegram channels, Azov’s neighbors heard explosions near the port and the train station, where oil facilities are located. Those same Telegram channels have published a video of a large column of fire and smoke rising towards the sky of the city of Azov.

In recent months, Kiev has attacked numerous refineries and other oil infrastructures within the Russian Federation with its own-made drones, in an attempt to decimate the Russian war economy and deprive the Russian Army fighting in Ukraine of some of the fuel it needs.

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The United States has publicly expressed its disagreement with these attacks for fear of Russian reprisals and that they will destabilize the international oil market.

Meanwhile, the Ukrainian General Staff has reported that the axis of the Pokrovsk front, in the eastern region of Donetsk, remains the hottest area in the entire contact zone due to constant Russian attacks.

In the middle of the day, “the Russian occupants” had tried to “15 times improve their positions” in the direction of the city of Pokrovsk, which is still in the hands of Ukraine.

According to the influential Ukrainian Telegram channel DeepState, which reports daily on the course of the war, Russian forces advanced in the last few hours along with the towns of Umanske, Arjangelske and Sokol, all of them in the Donetsk region.

In their report on Tuesday’s war, British military intelligence talks about the “probable” conquest by Russian troops of the town of Novooleksandrivka, 20 kilometers north of the occupied Avdivka (Donetsk).

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“The area has experienced intense fighting throughout 2024 and Russia has gradually advanced since the capture of Avdivka in February 2024,” the British report reads.

According to London’s military intelligence, the capture of Novooleksandrivka brings Russia closer to a vital road for the supply of Ukrainian forces in the east.

The Russian authorities have been reporting in recent days and weeks of the improvement of positions and the seizure of several villages by their troops.

Ukraine lost the initiative at the front in September last year after having exhausted its counter-offensive with modest advances that in some cases have been reversed by Russia.

After almost half a year with hardly any supplies from the United States, Kiev began to receive new military aid from Washington financed with the expected package of more than 60 billion dollars approved by Congress in April, the ratification of which was delayed for more than six months due to the resistance of a part of the Republican Party.

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Despite the arrival of new weapons and quantities of ammunition for artillery vital to correct the dramatic disadvantage that Ukraine suffered in this chapter for months, Kiev has not been able for the moment to stop enemy advances or recover the initiative.

For his part, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, expressed his concern about the deterioration of the situation in Ukraine after two and a half years of conflict and particularly denounced the situation in Kharkov, where the recent Russian land offensive “has destroyed entire communities.”

Kharkov, the second largest city in Ukraine, is located in the east of the country, close to the Russian-occupied regions of Donetsk and Lugansk, in the Donbas.

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Deportation flight lands in Venezuela; government denies criminal gang links

A flight carrying 175 Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States arrived in Caracas on Sunday. This marks the third group to return since repatriation flights resumed a week ago, and among them is an alleged member of a criminal organization, according to Venezuelan authorities.

Unlike previous flights operated by the Venezuelan state airline Conviasa, this time, an aircraft from the U.S. airline Eastern landed at Maiquetía Airport, on the outskirts of Caracas, shortly after 2:00 p.m. with the deportees.

Interior Minister Diosdado Cabello, who welcomed the returnees at the airport, stated that the 175 repatriated individuals were coming back “after being subjected, like all Venezuelans, to persecution” and dismissed claims that they belonged to the criminal organization El Tren de Aragua.

However, Cabello confirmed that “for the first time in these flights we have been carrying out, someone of significance wanted by Venezuelan justice has arrived, and he is not from El Tren de Aragua.” Instead, he belongs to a gang operating in the state of Trujillo. The minister did not disclose the individual’s identity or provide details on where he would be taken.

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Son of journalist José Rubén Zamora condemns father’s return to prison as “illegal”

Guatemalan court decides Wednesday whether to convict journalist José Rubén Zamora

The son of renowned journalist José Rubén Zamora Marroquín, José Carlos Zamora, has denounced as “illegal” the court order that sent his father back to a Guatemalan prison on March 3, after already spending 819 days behind barsover a highly irregular money laundering case.

“My father’s return to prison was based on an arbitrary and illegal ruling. It is also alarming that the judge who had granted him house arrest received threats,” José Carlos Zamora told EFE in an interview on Saturday.

The 67-year-old journalist was sent back to prison inside the Mariscal Zavala military barracks on March 3, when Judge Erick García upheld a Court of Appeals ruling that overturned the house arrest granted to him in October. Zamora had already spent 819 days in prison over an alleged money laundering case.

His son condemned the situation as “unacceptable”, stating that the judge handling the case “cannot do his job in accordance with the law due to threats against his life.”

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Miyazaki’s style goes viral with AI but at what cost?

This week, you may have noticed that everything—from historical photos and classic movie scenes to internet memes and recent political moments—has been reimagined on social media as Studio Ghibli-style portraits. The trend quickly went viral thanks to ChatGPT and the latest update of OpenAI’s chatbot, released on Tuesday, March 25.

The newest addition to GPT-4o has allowed users to replicate the distinctive artistic style of the legendary Japanese filmmaker and Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away). “Today is a great day on the internet,” one user declared while sharing popular memes in Ghibli format.

While the trend has captivated users worldwide, it has also highlighted ethical concerns about AI tools trained on copyrighted creative works—and what this means for the livelihoods of human artists.

Not that this concerns OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, which has actively encouraged the “Ghiblification”experiments. Its CEO, Sam Altman, even changed his profile picture on the social media platform X to a Ghibli-style portrait.

Miyazaki, now 84 years old, is known for his hand-drawn animation approach and whimsical storytelling. He has long expressed skepticism about AI’s role in animation. His past remarks on AI-generated animation have resurfaced and gone viral again, particularly when he once said he was “utterly disgusted” by an AI demonstration.

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