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Joe Biden meets Ukraine's Foreign, Defense Ministers in Poland

They discussed 'further efforts to help Ukraine defend its territory' and the US and its allies' ongoing actions towards Russia, the White House said in statement

Biden says Putin 'cannot remain in power' in a fiery speech in Warsaw

Biden's comments on Saturday, including a statement earlier in the day calling Putin a 'butcher,' were a sharp escalation of the US approach to Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine

LIVE: Three powerful explosions heard near Ukraine's Lviv, says governor

'There were three powerful explosions near Lviv from the direction of Kryvchytsy, now there is an air raid warning, so keep calm and take shelter,' said regional Governor in an online post

Chernihiv: Shelled city in north Ukraine fears becoming 'next Mariupol'

Surrounded by Russian forces and under constant bombardment, the northern city known for its eclectic monasteries has no electricity, heating or running water

'Russian budget doesn't have funds for military in war against Ukraine'

The Chief Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said that that the Russian budget does not have funds for further payments to the military for the ongoing war against Kiev

International Emmy Awards to bar Russian programmes from competition

Last year, Russian-backed RT received an International Emmy nomination in the news category for 'Nagorno-Karabakh War: Bloodshed And Path To Ceasefire'

No consensus with Russia on four points mentioned by Erdogan: Ukraine

Last week, Erdogan had renewed his offer to bring the leaders of Russia and Ukraine together in Turkey for final decisions on these topics

Russians shift focus from Ukraine's Kyiv scaling back goals in war?

Russian forces in Ukraine seem to have shifted their focus from a ground offensive aimed at Kyiv, the capital, to instead prioritizing what Moscow calls liberation of the contested Donbas region

Ukraine crisis: Music streaming giant Spotify suspends service in Russia

Spotify said it had no choice but to leave the Russian market, citing the law that essentially outlaws independent journalism

Ukraine war: Over 400 firms stopped operations in Russia after US sanctions

More than 400 firms have stopped their business activities in Russia, as a result of the severe US sanctions on the country for its invasion of Ukraine, founder of Bobby Balachandran said

72 attacks on Ukrainian healthcare facilities since February 24: WHO

There were a total of 71 deaths and 37 injuries as a result of these attacks, the SSA added

Ukrainian forces have dealt powerful blows to enemy: President Zelenskyy

As Moscow's invasion of Kiev has been underway for more than a month now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy said that his country's forces "have dealt powerful blows to the enemy"

Atom-smashing CERN lab ratchets up measures against Russia, Belarus

The CERN Council, the governing body of the Geneva-based lab with 23 member states, announced Friday that its scientists will suspend participation in all scientific committees in Russia

China, Russia cool to US aim for more N Korea sanctions after missile test

North Korea's test of a big new ICBM prompted the United States to press Friday for stiffer UN sanctions, but China and Russia showed little appetite for tightening restrictions

Ukraine war: J K Rowling slams Vladimir Putin's 'cancel culture' remark

Putin earlier compared recent Western criticism of Russia with efforts to cancel Rowling over her views on transgender issues

Russia restricts flow of funds to 'unfriendly' countries, regions

Russia has imposed restrictions on the movement of funds that could be transferred to "unfriendly" countries and regions, its central bank has said.

Less than 100 kms from Ukraine, Joe Biden sees refugee crisis in Poland

More than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Feb 24 invasion, including about 2.2 million to Poland, according to the United Nations

Russia had its own problems and fault lines in handling 'NATO expansion'

In certain quarters it was believed in the early nineties that Russia was almost trapped into believing that it could even join NATO

Russia carried out 30 attacks on Ukrainian medical facilities: Report

The Associated Press has independently documented at least 34 assaults on Ukrainian medical facilities by Russian forces. AP journalists in Ukraine have seen firsthand the deadly results of Russian strikes on civilian targets, including the final moments of children whose bodies were shredded by shrapnel and dozens of corpses heaped into mass graves. AP journalists outside Ukraine have confirmed the details of other attacks by interviewing survivors and independently verifying war zone videos and photos posted online. The accounting is part of the War Crimes Watch Ukraine project, a broader effort by AP and PBS Frontline to track evidence of potential war crimes for the duration of the conflict. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirms at least 1,035 civilians, including 90 children, have died and another 1,650 civilians have been wounded since the war started a month ago. Those numbers are certainly an undercount since scores of bodies now lie under the rubb

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