The battlefield focus now shifts to the neighbouring Donetsk region, where Kyiv still controls swathes of territory.

Ukraine says Russia is seizing grain and other goods from locals and exporting them to fund its war effort.

The foreign minister of Belarus added that it’s the West that’s at fault this time

Pakistan aspired to attend the BRICS outreach event for emerging economies that was joined by Algeria, Argentina, Cambodia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Fiji, Indonesia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Uzbekistan, Malaysia and Thailand. However, India through swift and deft diplomacy blocked Pakistan from the event. Reportedly, China being the chair of the event, agreed to India in keeping its ‘all-weather ally’ out from the event.

After attending the G7 summit from Sunday to Tuesday, Biden will fly to Madrid for a summit of the NATO military alliance next week.

It said Fogel committed "large-scale drugs smuggling" by crossing the Russian border, as well as "large-scale illegal storage of drugs without a commercial purpose".

The French leader has been criticised by Ukraine and eastern European allies for what they perceived as his ambiguous backing for Ukraine in the war against Russia.

The EU took 61 percent of Russia's fossil fuel exports during the war's first 100 days

Zelenskyy says: 'I don’t really understand… humiliating Russia. For 8 years, they have been killing us. What are we talking about here?'

Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova threatened at the end of May to expel Western media if YouTube continued to block the department's weekly briefings.

Moscow has blamed Ukraine and the West for the resulting disruption of Ukrainian grain exports.

World Bank stated that the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war could bring a global recession as food, energy, and fertilizer the prices go higher