granting American access to Ukraine’s vast mineral resources, finalizing a deal months in the making that could enable continued military aid to Kyiv amid concerns that President Donald Trump might scale back support in ongoing peace negotiations with Russia.
Doctors say they’re also worried about prospects for long term care for burn patients. Many need reconstructive surgery, butin Gaza. Israel has increasingly rejected entry for international medical staff in recent weeks, aid workers say, though some continue to have access.
At the end of April, 10-year-old Mira al-Khazandar was severely burned on her arms and chest when a strike hit near her tent. Worried that she will have permanent scars, her mother combs pharmacies looking for ointments for her.Mira’s been able to return to the family’s tent to recover, but she suffers from the sand and mosquitos there, said her mother Haneen al-Khazandar. She has to go regularly to the hospital, which risks infecting her burns and causes her pain, standing under the sun waiting for transport.“She is slowly recovering because there is no treatment and no medicines and no food,” she said. “She is tired, she can’t sleep all night because of the pain, even after I give her medicine, it doesn’t help.”
Associated Press writers Wafaa Shurafa in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut, Lebanon contributed.Attacks by Ukrainian long-range drones caused flight disruption at Moscow’s main airports
on Wednesday as Russia prepared to receive the
for the annual Victory Day military parade in Red Square.There was no direct response from the Kremlin, meanwhile, to Ukrainian President Volodymyr
for Russian leader Vladimir Putin to meet him for face-to-face peace talks in Turkey on Thursday.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to say who might travel to Istanbul from the Russian side.
“Overall, we’re determined to seriously look for ways to achieve a long-term peaceful settlement. That is all,” Peskov said.The United States and European governments are making a concerted push to stop the fighting, which has killed tens of thousands of soldiers on both sides, as well as more than 10,000 Ukrainian civilians. Russia’s invading forces have taken around one-fifth of Ukraine in Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.