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Fighting rages on in Ukraine. View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story April 1, 2022 By Natasha Frost Writer, Briefings Good morning. We're covering mixed signals from Russia and Hungary's election. Soldiers and emergency service workers carried bodies in Irpin, Ukraine, after fighting yesterday. Daniel Berehulak for The New York Times Fighting rages on in Ukraine Facing deeper isolation by the day over the war in Ukraine, Russia seemed to slightly recalibrate its stance, allowing greater humanitarian access to the devastated port city of Mariupol and apparently retreating from a payment confrontation with European gas customers. Fighting around Kyiv, Ukraine's capital, continued unabated. Follow the latest updates . The population of Mariupol has for weeks been cut off from the outside world by heavy Russian bombardment and intense fighting. Thousands of civilians are believed to have died. Survivors have been trapped in basements without hea

And Russians seem to be leaving Chernobyl, plus the wonders of Wikipedia View in browser | nytimes.com Continue reading the main story March 31, 2022 By Nancy Wartik and Jonathan Wolfe Good evening. Here's the latest at the end of Thursday. President Biden spoke today from the White House about actions his administration was taking to reduce surging gas costs. Leigh Vogel for The New York Times 1. President Biden announced the release of a million barrels of oil per day , over 180 days, from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It's the largest release since the reserve was established 50 years ago. One million barrels a day represents roughly 5 percent of American demand — and 1 percent of global demand — at a time when Russian oil exports are down about three million barrels a day globally. Biden is under growing pressure to push gas prices down . "The price effect is likely to be short-term," said a former senior State Department official, who added that it