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The Gymnastics Ethics Foundation barred Irina Viner from coaching or officiating at any competitions in international gymnastics for two years

Intense Russian shelling targeted the city in the Donetsk region and nearby villages as Moscow deployed more resources to try to finish off Bakhmut’s resistance

They also offer decoy versions of US-made HIMARS rocket systems, that were among the billions of dollars in Western military aid that has helped Ukraine’s war effort

The initial results mean the Reform Party is in a remarkably strong position to take a leading role in forming Estonia’s next government

The occupied city’s de jure leader puts the civilian death toll from the siege at 22,000 and says they were not prepared for the scale of the assault: ‘We did not know the Russians were advancing towards us’

National security in the wake of neighboring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and socio-economic issues, particularly the rising cost of living, were main campaign themes

Two civilians were killed over the past day in Bakhmut, Donetsk province Governor Pavlo Kyrylenko said

The president of Ukraine met with US Attorney General Merrick Garland. ‘The main issue of all these meetings and the Lviv conference is accountability,’ he said

Governments and human rights organizations around the world, including the head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, have called for the release of the opposition activist

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Western allies would support Ukraine for “as long as it takes”

Moscow has been intensifying attacks to encircle Kyiv’s troops as Volodymyr Zelenskiy considers retreat to a new defensive line. Drone units have become vital for detecting Russian artillery and infantry movements

The testimony of a neighbor led to the bodies and personal belongings of three men who died in Borodianka and that he himself buried before fleeing the war

Washington has issued a warning against any attempt by Beijing to provide military support to Moscow while the FBI assesses coronavirus originated in a ‘potential lab incident in Wuhan’

Blinken, according to remarks released by the State Department, spent much of his time describing U.S. efforts to bolster energy and food security

Kyiv urgently requires ammunition as the Kremlin seeks a breakthrough on the eastern front, where Moscow is sending waves of infantry to deplete the defenders’ stocks of heavy shells

Seagal was a vocal supporter of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea

Russia’s suspension of its arms control treaty with the US augurs a new period of military deterrence, arms races and instability

The Russian invasion “has unleashed widespread death, destruction and displacement,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said

As both sides prepare for battlefield offensives, NATO is seeking to provide security guarantees while Moscow strengthens its alliances to gain military and diplomatic traction

The European Commission expects an agreement during the Spanish presidency of the EU, in the second half of the year

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a challenge to the world order that has precipitated military, geopolitical, economic and human consequences on a planetary scale

‘The pressure on Russian aggressor must increase,’ the Ukrainian president tweeted in English

Germany is the exception and has displayed unusual transparency by releasing weekly lists of the weapons it is sending to Kyiv

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned council members that they “should not fall into the false equivalency of calling on both sides to stop fighting”

President Xi Jinping’s government is reiterating his country’s claim to being neutral, despite blocking efforts at the United Nations to condemn the invasion

The action seeks to punish 250 people and firms and puts financial blocks on banks, arms dealers and technology companies tied to weapons production

The Donetsk and Luhansk front line has barely moved in recent weeks with Russian and Ukrainian forces locked in static 20th-century-style battles