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WHILE the International Criminal Court has started investigating alleged war crimes in the Ukraine, the Pilecki Institute in Berlin, which is dedicated to researching 20th century history including Nazi crimes, is collecting testimonies from refugees about possible war crimes in Ukraine.

The institute, named after a Polish cavalry officer who risked his life to document the situation in the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII, said it had started its own initiative to interview refugees.

More than 369 000 people fleeing the war in Ukraine have been registered in Germany, data showed on Friday. | Reuters

Ukraine

A RUSSIAN official has said that the ruble will be introduced in areas of Ukraine under Moscow’s control, despite Russia earlier insisting it was not seeking to occupy captured territory.

A civilian and military administrator of the Russian-controlled region of Kherson in southern Ukraine said Moscow would introduce its currency in the region.

“Beginning May 1, we will move to the ruble zone,” Kirill Stremousov, was quoted as saying by Russia’s state-run news agency RIA Novosti.

He said there would be a four-month period of grace when Ukraine’s currency, the hryvnia, would also be used.

“Then we will completely switch to settlements in rubles.” | AFP

US DIRECTOR and actress Olivia

Wilde was handed a mysterious envelope on stage midway through her presentation introducing footage from her coming thriller Don’t Worry Darling at CinemaCon, the annual movie industry gathering at Caesars Palace in Las

Vegas, this week. Many in the audience assumed it was the set-up for an elaborate joke. Instead, she was getting served legal papers from her ex-partner, Jason Sudeikis. “This is for me, right?” asked Wilde. “Very mysterious,” she said, opening the envelope marked “Personal and Confidential” after it was slid calmly on to the stage by an unknown person. Glancing at its contents, she asked “Is this a script? Okay, got it. Thank you,” before returning to her presentation, hardly missing a beat. | AFP

Technology

A 5G-CONNECTED ambulance that can transform health care and save lives in emergency situations made its debut in Bengaluru, India, on Thursday.

Bharti Airtel partnered with Apollo Hospitals and Cisco to build the state-ofthe-art ambulance, which is equipped with the latest medical equipment, patientmonitoring applications, and telemetry devices that transmit the patient’s health data to the hospital in real time.

The ambulance also has onboard cameras, and head and body cams for paramedics. It will be further enabled with Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality, to help the ambulance act as an extension of the emergency room by remaining always connected to the hospital. This may also help transport doctors virtually to the ambulance to help save lives. | IANS