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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the only way out of the war will be through diplomacy — in addition to a Kyiv win on the battlefield — as his ...

The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. The city appears to be the war’s next major battlefield as Russia tries to gain control of the Donbas region and as weeks of fighting in Mariupol come to an end. Russian forces had sought to encircle the city of Kharkiv, the second-largest in Ukraine, but have been forced to retreat after Ukrainian troops mounted a successful counteroffensive. The visit is Duda’s third to Ukraine so far this year. Ukraine has also accused Russian forces of stealing grain and transporting it to Russia. So we turn to our partners with inquiries about the relevant weapons.” He explained how his position has changed over nearly three months of fighting: “I really thought we could end it only through dialogue — in that dialogue could be found answers to many questions, and many decisions from the Russian side. Zelensky did not specify what he wants Russia to return. “And this is what it will be in the end.” Legal residence, employment, education, health care and social benefits,” Zelensky said, according to a text of the speech posted by an official from the presidential office. Ukrainian authorities have put three captured Russian soldiers on trial for war crimes, and the Biden administration is supporting steps by the Ukrainian prosecutor general to investigate Russia’s actions in the war. Russia is likely to have deployed its only operational company of BMP-T “Terminator” tank support vehicles to Severodonetsk, a key focus for its operations in Donbas, Britain’s Defense Ministry said.

More than 1000 Ukrainian educational institutions have been destroyed by Russia since the start of the war, says President Volodymyr Zelensky.

- Lithuania cuts Russian energy imports: Lithuania will have completely cut imports of Russian energy supplies including oil, electricity and natural gas from Sunday. The country’s Ministry of Energy said in a statement on Friday that the pan-European power exchange Nord Pool had decided to stop trading Russian electricity with its only importer in the Baltic States, Russian utility Inter RAO – meaning the country would no longer be importing any Russian energy. Under the restrictions introduced Saturday, cars and passengers entering the city need single-use passes issued by a Russian commandant in Manhush or Vynohradne, towns to the west and east of the occupied city, Andrushchenko said. "Not only it is an extremely important milestone for Lithuania in its journey towards energy independence, but it is also an expression of our solidarity with Ukraine,” Lithuanian Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys said. - EU membership for Ukraine would take “15 or 20 years,” French minister says: Ukraine’s bid to join the European Union would take at least “15 or 20 years" to complete, France’s European Affairs Minister Clement Beaune said on Sunday, while promoting President Emmanuel Macron’s alternative proposal of creating a new “European political community” including Ukraine. “If we say that Ukraine will join the European Union in 6 months, one year, two years, we are lying. A Ukrainian businessman, working with WEF, has turned the venue into an exhibition depicting the devastation and destruction of the war in Ukraine. Organized by the Victor Pinchuk Foundation and PinchukArtCentre, an international centre for contemporary art based in Kyiv, “the exhibition aims to inform about the main facts, share faces, names and dates and provide at least some of the victims a platform from which to tell their real story,” the foundation said in a press release. The Zhytomyr region sits to the west of Kyiv.

Kyiv says it will not agree to a ceasefire that involves handing territory to Russia; Ukrainian president says up to 100 Ukrainians dying every day on ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said 50 to 100 Ukrainians were dying every day on the war’s eastern front in what appeared to be a reference to military casualties. Intelligence officers say more than 50 specialists have been in Russia for several weeks working alongside officials from president Vladimir Putin’s military. A bid by Ukraine to join the European Union would not be finalised for “15 or 20 years”, France’s Europe minister said. “It’s probably in 15 or 20 years. Ukraine has said it will not agree to any ceasefire deal that would involve handing over territory to Russia, as Moscow intensified its attack in the eastern Donbas region. The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, spoke with Zelenskiy on Sunday evening about Russia’s blockade of Odesa, Ukraine’s largest shipping port.

Russia pressed its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday as Poland's president travelled to Kyiv to support the country's European Union aspirations, ...

It intensified efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk, the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province, which together with Donetsk province makes up the Donbas. The Ukrainian military said on Sunday that Russian forces had mounted an unsuccessful attack on Oleksandrivka, a village outside of Sievierodonetsk. gave Putin a badly wanted victory in the war he began nearly three months ago, on Feb. 24. “This is really a historic opportunity not to lose such strong relations, built through blood, through Russian aggression,” Zelensky said. “We have to be honest,” he said. Only Ukraine has the right to decide for itself.” “I want to say clearly: Only Ukraine has the right to decide about its future.

Kyiv rules out ceasefire or territorial concessions as Moscow hits military targets in Ukraine's east and south.

They have been widely used, particularly on Russian military vehicles and equipment, to promote the aims of the conflict. Russian forces likely seek to push further west toward Bakhmut and north to support the encirclement of Severodonetsk. “From a historical perspective, it is the eastward expansion advanced by the US and NATO that provoked Russia’s resistance. Russian forces have secured advances to the north and west of Popasna since at least May 20. “There will be other public speeches during the week, including an address to the Stanford University community. “The war must end with the complete restoration of Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty,” Andriy Yermak, Ukraine’s presidential chief of staff said in a Twitter post. Johnson resolved to redouble efforts to provide vital food and humanitarian aid to the people of Ukraine and ensure the country was able to export to the rest of the world, the spokesperson added. “I have introduced a special honorary title of ‘rescuer city’ for the partner cities of our state, which today do the impossible to help us, to help our people, to help our army,” Zelenskyy said in parliament during a visit from Poland’s President Andrzej Duda. Ukraine’s finance ministry said that now “all income of residents of the Russian Federation received from sources in Ukraine will be subject to a general tax rate of 15% established by the Tax Code of Ukraine,” instead of preferential rates established by the double taxation agreement. Ukraine and Poland have agreed to establish a joint border customs control and work on a shared railway company to ease the movement of people and increase Ukraine’s export potential. “The US-Japan alliance has long been the cornerstone of peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific, and the United States remains fully committed to Japan’s defence,” Biden said at the beginning of talks with Kishida at the Akasaka Palace in central Tokyo. The war in Ukraine is expected to be a prominent topic in this year’s Davos discussions to which Russian companies and representatives have not received invitations.

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Russian authorities have threatened to investigate some of the steel mill's defenders for war crimes and put them on trial, branding them "Nazis" and criminals. It has found immense reservoirs of national resolve, and support from the West. But whether that will be enough to achieve its objectives is not clear. And Russia will feel the weight of every missile, every bomb, every shell which it has fired at us," he said. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy proposed a formal deal with the country's allies to secure Russian compensation for the damage its forces have caused during the war. The unidentified woman tore off her clothes during the film's red carpet procession to reveal the message “Stop raping us” written across her torso next to the blue and yellow colours of the Ukraine flag. “The road is extremely important because it's the only connection to other regions of the country,” he said via email. Last week, Ukraine's Kalush Orchestra rode a wave of popular support to win the Eurovision Song Contest, giving their compatriots a much-needed morale boost. There was no immediate confirmation from Ukraine. (Here’s why the loss of the Mariupol steel plant is significant) Ukraine has successfully defended Kyiv, and Russia has refocused its offensive on the country’s east, but American officials warn of the potential for a prolonged conflict. The scale of the challenge ahead of us shows that we need to create a very significant European financial instrument and bring other international donors on board pic.twitter.com/C00L4tgsHF Russia claimed to have captured Mariupol Friday in what would be its biggest victory yet in its war with Ukraine, after a nearly three-month siege that reduced much of the strategic port city to a smoking ruin, with over 20,000 civilians feared dead. Russia Ukraine War Live, Mariupol Fall to Russia: President Biden on Saturday signed legislation to support Ukraine with another USD 40 billion in U.S. assistance as the Russian invasion approaches its fourth month.

To Ukrainians it was clear from the very start of Russia's invasion that this was no "special operation" to liberate the Donbas region, as Vladimir Putin ...

"Let the Russian people come and see what they did to us!" "I used to ask myself: 'Is my work effective to stop the war?' Now I see that it makes sense." "Fear and horror," she repeats. Fear and horror," Alina Petrovna tells me, as her son nails tarpaulin over the holes left in their roof by the shockwaves of heavy shelling. I see the law for what it is," the journalist says. "It doesn't matter which law they use against you, it's just to make you shut up." She feels a sense of responsibility for that, although the odds were stacked impossibly against her. "Truth is the regime's main enemy," says Evgenia Kara-Murza, Vladimir's wife, from Washington DC, where she lives for safety reasons. "I couldn't sleep, because people started to die… A Russian soldier has admitted in court to shooting a civilian. A month after his speech, Mr Kara-Murza was picked up by police in Moscow and later charged with "spreading false information" about Russia's military. They face up to 15 years behind bars for challenging the official line on Russia's invasion or criticising the military.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a "historic" joint customs control with Poland that he described as "the beginning of our integration into ...

Johnson said, "every country has a duty to help Ukraine in their struggle for freedom, both now and in the long-term." During a phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Johnson spoke about the "despicable" blockade of the key port city of Odesa, according to the statement. The Ukrainian leader also said he spoke with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and "discussed ways to increase the volume of our exports, especially agricultural products. "It will be the right gesture to pass such a law in Ukraine," Zelensky said. But it is also the beginning of our integration into the common customs space of the European Union. That is a truly historic process." The number has also been propelled by "new waves of violence" or conflict in Ethiopia, Burkina Faso, Myanmar, Nigeria, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Cruise-missile attack: At least one person was killed Sunday in a Russian missile attack on Malyn, in the Zhytomyr region, west of Kyiv, according to the Ukrainian military. At least 1,200 bodies of civilians have been discovered in the region since Russian troops withdrew from there, according to the Kyiv region police. At least 290 of them were found in Irpin, according to the city's mayor. The war in Ukraine has displaced 8 million within the country, and more than 6 million refugee movements from Ukraine have been registered, it said. All of the people CNN spoke to have described facing threats and humiliation during the process. CNN spoke to a number of Ukrainians who have gone through the filtration process over the last two months.

President Volodymyr Zelensky will address the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as Severodonetsk becomes a focal point in the war.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. Russia is attempting to gain control of the Donbas region, which includes Donetsk and Luhansk. A loss would be “devastating to their morale and strategic position.” Even a win could come with costly troop casualties and equipment losses. “All wars have to end.” He said he was encouraged that some communication channels with the Russians appear to be reopening. Mullen said it was significant that Finland and Sweden applied to join NATO, given their decades-long history of military nonalignment. It’s going to be visible. They “condemned Russia’s actions, and called for Russia to be held accountable for its atrocities.” Putin has called the invasion “a special military operation” and has denied that Russia is responsible for war crimes. Russia has denied committing war crimes during its invasion of Ukraine. Its representatives were not invited to this year’s gathering. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that fighting in eastern Ukraine is becoming increasingly bloody, with up to 100 Ukrainian soldiers killed each day.

Speaking to the World Economic Forum, President Volodymyr Zelensky called for tougher sanctions against Moscow and safe corridors for Ukrainian grain ...

An American delegation is scheduled to hold talks in The Hague this week on “responses to atrocities committed in Ukraine,” the State Department said. “Chinese planners must take the possibility of Japan getting involved into account when they plan and when they decide whether or not to attack Taiwan,” Mr. Michishita said. Wrapping up the event, Mr. Biden ignored shouted questions about what a military intervention in Taiwan would look like and whether he was prepared to put American troops on the ground. Mr. Biden had ignored the practiced imprecision of his predecessors with regard to China and Taiwan before in his presidency. President Biden said he would use military force to defend Taiwan if it were ever attacked by China, dispensing with the “strategic ambiguity” of past presidents. “My wish would actually be to keep the Druzhba pipeline out of the embargo entirely,” said another employee, who identified herself as the mother of three young children. Flattened by the Soviet Union at the end of World War II, the arrival of the oil pipeline — its name, Druzhba, means friendship in Russian — and refinery in the late 1960s drew thousands of workers and their families, lured by secure jobs. The PCK refinery — the name is a nod to its East German roots as the state-owned “Petrolchemisches Kombinat,” or Petrochemical Combine — is owned by Rosneft, the Russian state-owned oil company. The defendant sat in a glass cage, wearing the same blue-and-gray hoodie he has worn for every trial appearance, his head bowed as an interpreter whispered to him in Russian through an opening in the glass. This time it is a war that is already affecting the price of global food and oil supplies and contributing to surging inflation. “But we do not have many opportunities to protect his interests on the spot.” Sergeant Shishimarin, who had pleaded guilty at the start of the trial last week, was sentenced to life in prison.

The Russian military finally secured control over Mariupol in mid-May, when the last Ukrainian forces surrendered after a valiant resistance. Weeks of ...

That also means ratcheting up sanctions to accelerate the havoc coming to the Russian economy due to Putin’s disastrous decisions. That means continuing to provide the Ukrainians the means to defend their country and drive back the invading Russian army. Moreover, NATO could well decide to make the presence of alliance forces on its eastern flank (e.g., in the Baltic states and Poland) permanent rather than rotating. In that case, some of the advantages that favor the defense would accrue to the Russian military. Barring a total collapse of the Russian military (not to be excluded, but unlikely), it is difficult to see how Ukraine can muster the necessary leverage to regain Crimea. A senior Ukrainian official privately said in September 2014 that perhaps Kyiv should let the then-occupied part of Donbas go — “they don’t think like we do” — but he quickly added that no serious Ukrainian official could say that publicly and expect to survive. (This could also become a tragedy for countries around the world that depend on Ukrainian food exports that are now blockaded.) The West should support that position and reject the Kremlin’s attempt to redraw international borders by force of arms. Western countries will have to decide what to do about sanctions on Russia; some may wish to maintain sanctions even after a settlement, though the West should be sensitive to sanctions-easing if Kyiv says that is necessary to secure an otherwise acceptable deal. The multiple axes of attack suggested that the Russian military aimed to quickly capture the capital of Kyiv, depose the democratically-elected government, and occupy perhaps as much as the eastern two-thirds of Ukraine. U.S. officials see Russian President Vladimir Putin stubbornly digging in, discern no negotiating path in the near term, and expect a war of attrition, with the sides slugging it out but neither able to score a convincing victory. However the war concludes, an independent and sovereign Ukrainian state will remain on the map of Europe. The Kremlin has now focused on taking full control of the Donbas, a substantially downsized goal from its original invasion aims.

Vladimir Putin survived an assassination attempt at the start of the war in Ukraine, a Ukrainian intelligence chief has revealed.

The coast around the Black Sea city of Odesa remains braced for invasion, with air raid sirens and missile attacks. "Compassion is alive and we need a similar mobilisation for all crises around the world. It has intensified efforts to capture Sievierodonetsk, the main city under Ukrainian control in Luhansk province – which, together with Donetsk province, makes up the Donbas. "There should not be any trade with Russia," he told the gathering of the world's political and business elites. UNHCR said the number around the world rose towards 90 million by the end of 2021. Russia on Friday said the last Ukrainian fighters defending Azovstal had surrendered. Ukrainian authorities had said last week that eight people were killed in the strike. So we've got some two weeks of work ahead of us," said a Russian soldier who gave only his nom de guerre Babai. There is a military barracks and training base near the town. I think the thing that we'd have to rule out is any sense that this could be done without Russia's permission. "Clearly the Russians are dominating that area. The Kremlin has not reported any such incidents in recent months.

A diplomat at Russia's mission to the United Nations in Geneva has resigned over the war in Ukraine, writing that he has never been “so ashamed” of his ...

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. The latest: President Biden signed a $40 billion package of new military and humanitarian assistance to Ukraine on Saturday while visiting South Korea, amid signs that the United States and its allies are preparing for a drawn-out conflict. “The Ministry has become my home and family. An online directory for the United Nations in Geneva lists Bondarev as counselor at the Russian Federation’s mission. Russian President Vladimir Putin has made it clear that dissent won’t be tolerated, saying in March that the Russian people can distinguish between “true patriots from scum and traitors.” “Thousands of Russians and Ukrainians have already died just for this.”