The White House is denying that US intelligence provided targeting information to the Ukrainians so they could sink Russia's warship, the Moskva, in the waters of the Black Sea last month.
The Biden administration also described as "irresponsible" published claims that the US provided Kyiv with information leading to the killing of a dozen Russian army generals.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki says intelligence IS shared with Ukraine in real time, but not with the kind of specificity the media reports have claimed.
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In Ukraine itself, about another 50 civilians have been evacuated from the besieged Avostal steel plant in the Black Sea port of Mariupol.
It’s part of an effort by the UN and the Red Cross to rescue people who have spent weeks living in tunnels beneath the factory.
Father Vitaliy Novak of the charity DePaul Ukraine has been delivering humanitarian aid to communities all over the country.
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