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The United States and the European Union have announced new shipments of military aid to Ukraine.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin says he welcomes China's willingness to help resolve the one-year-plus-long conflict in Ukraine as his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping says Bejing’s proposal on how to solve the crisis reflects global views.
The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says US drone flights over the Black Sea are a sign of direct US involvement in the Ukraine war.
As Russian troops extend territorial gains in Bakhmut following months of intense fighting with Ukrainian troops, the NATO military alliance chief says the strategically important city could fall "in coming days."
Protesters have taken to the streets in Austria and Germany calling for an end to the protracted war in Ukraine that completed one year recently amid a growing anti-war chorus in Europe.
An American Democratic politician says “intellectually bankrupt” politicians of the United States have made a nuclear war with Russia a realistic possibility.
At a G20 meeting, Russia and China have denounced the West for imposing what they called its unilateral approaches by means of “blackmail and threats” against other countries.
Finland has edged closer to joining NATO after its parliament overwhelmingly passed legislation necessary for allowing the country to be a member of the transatlantic military alliance and Hungary’s ruling party said it would support the bid.
The Russian Foreign Ministry has warned that any action by Ukraine or its Western allies that poses a threat to Russian peacekeepers or Russian nationals in the region separated from Moldova in Transnistria will be considered an attack on Russia.
The United States has announced sweeping sanctions aimed at increasing economic pressure on Russia and reducing Moscow's access to critical technologies such as semiconductors, as the war in Ukraine enters its second year.