Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and three other Republican senators met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine, becoming the latest set of top U.S. lawmakers to travel to Kyiv, The Hill reports.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said French President Emmanuel Macron asked Ukraine to make concessions on its sovereignty to help Russian leader Vladimir Putin save face, Politico reports.

But the Ukraine leader said he would never recognize Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

Said Zelensky: “We won’t help Putin save face by paying with our territory. That would be unjust.”

“North Korea reported a significant surge in suspected coronavirus infections and deaths on Saturday as it struggled to contain its first reported outbreak, which the country’s leader, Kim Jong-un, said could be one of the greatest crises in the country’s history,” the New York Times reports.

“State media said an additional 174,400 people had symptoms, like fever, that could be due to Covid-19, nearly a tenfold jump from the 18,000 such cases reported on Friday.”

Russian President Putin is “very ill with blood cancer,” an oligarch close to the Kremlin is reported to have said, the Times of London reports.

“The unnamed oligarch was recorded discussing Putin’s health with a Western venture capitalist in mid-March in a recording obtained by New Lines, a US magazine.”

“The Russian says in the recording that Putin had surgery on his back linked to his blood cancer shortly before ordering the invasion of Ukraine. He complains that the president has gone ‘crazy.’”

In an interview with Sky News, Ukraine Major General Kyrylo Budanov also said a coup to remove Putin is already under way in Russia and the Russian leader is seriously ill with cancer.

“The glimpse of a possible Picasso in the home of Imelda Marcos seen during a visit by her son, Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr, after his election win has set off a flurry of speculation in the Philippines, where the family that once plundered billions is set to return to power,” The Guardian reports.

“North Korea appears to have resumed construction at a long-dormant nuclear reactor in recent weeks that, if completed, would dramatically increase its capacity to produce plutonium for nuclear weapons,” CNN reports.