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Our top stories. President Vlodemmy Zelensky said that America's silence and the silence of others in the world

only encourages Putin after Russia mounted its biggest drone and missile onslaught of the war so far on Ukrainian cities.

At least 14 people were killed and dozens injured in the second consecutive

night of attacks. Earlier, Ukraine said that almost all of the citizens returned to it by Russia

as part of a swap of 1,000 prisoners of war had been tortured, deprived of food and brainwashed.

The two rival candidates in Poland's run-off presidential election on June 1st held big rallies

in Warsaw. The capital's mayor, Rufald Chavskowski, a social liberal, led what he called

a march of patriots, his foe, the hard-right Carol Novrodsky, that a self-styled march for Poland.

The two are neck-a-neck in the polls.

Syria's new government promised to help America find and return its citizens who went

missing during the Syrian Civil War, which started in 2011, or their remains. It is another

sign of thawing relations between the two countries.

On Saturday, America formally lifted economic sanctions imposed during the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad.

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