State Division spokesman Ned Worth stated U.S. Embassy officers in Russia had been lastly granted consular entry to Brittney Griner and that the WNBA star was in “good situation.” Griner, who additionally performs professionally in Russia, has been in custody since final month after Russian officers accused her of making an attempt to enter the nation with vape cartridges containing cannabis oil. A conviction might maintain her in a Russian jail for 10 years. Griner has been ordered held in pre-trial detention till Could 19.
‘Persons are being killed day and evening,’ refugee from Kharkiv says
The Russian assault on Kharkiv has left the northeastern metropolis with Ukraine’s second-largest inhabitants in a “horrible” state of affairs. That is the evaluation of Natalia Savchenko, 37, a Ukrainian who left the town and sought refuge in Medyka, Poland.
“Persons are being killed day and evening,” Savchenko stated. “They’re taking pictures with the whole lot they’ve. There may be virtually nobody left in Kharkiv. There isn’t any electrical energy, water. Town is sort of empty. They don’t provide youngsters with medication and meals. They’re simply killing folks.”
Savchenko stated the navy helped her escape by prepare.
“It’s horrible, so horrible,” she stated. “We left, however within the district the place we lived, my grandmother stayed, my mother and my husband. Immediately our district was bombed, Shevchenkivsky district. We’re working away.”
