Air France Flight 447 crashed en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris in 2009, resulting in 228 deaths—one of the deadliest aviation disasters in history.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has written to US President Donald Trump and Congress asking for more American-made air defence ammunition to counter intensifying Russian ballistic missile attacks, Kyiv said Wednesday. The move came after a recent escalation in aerial attacks by both sides in the more than four-year war that followed Russia’s all-out invasion of its neighbor. FRANCE 24's International Affairs Commentator Douglas Herbert tells us more.