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Russian troops remained some 30 kilometers (18 miles) outside of Kyiv, the official said, while stressing that battlefield situations were actively changing.

Russian forces have made thrusts into the Ukrainian capital Kyiv before falling back to the outskirts, facing tough resistance on day three of the invasion ordered by President Vladimir Putin.

Belgium will also support the Ukrainian forces with 2,000 machine guns and 3,800 tons of fuel, according to Prime Minister Alexander De Croo.

An adviser to Ukraine's interior minister said no one was killed in the incident, while videos of the attack went viral on social media.

Zelensky said that the world must come together to stop Putin.

Trump continued to flatter Russian president Putin despite facing criticism earlier for siding with Russia and abandoning the US.

The union minister of defence said that India wants a peaceful resolution to the conflict

It is still unclear as to how much losses were incurred by the Felicity Ace, aboard which this cargo was being transported from Germany to the US

A Honduran man linked by U.S. prosecutors to former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez and other top officials plans to appeal his 2021 conviction on drug trafficking and related weapons charges, a court filing showed on Thursday.

The safehaven Japanese yen and Swiss franc climbed to twoweek peaks against the U.S. dollar on Thursday, on worries about escalating RussiaUkraine tensions that could have economic repercussions worldwide.

State-run television showed columns of military hardware crossing a recently-constructed bridge connecting the peninsula to the Russian mainland.

A US official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the Biden administration confirmed that 'Russia has increased its troop presence along the Ukrainian border by as many as 7,000 troops'.

Oil and gold rose on Wednesday after NATO and the United States said Russia was increasing its troop buildup near Ukraine, while a dovish reading of minutes from the last Federal Reserve meeting helped stocks close mostly flat on Wall Street.

Russian aircraft came close to three U.S. Navy planes in the Mediterranean Sea over the weekend, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries over Russia's military buildup along its border with Ukraine.

Ottawa's police chief resigned on Tuesday after criticism that he did not do enough to stop COVID19 protests that have paralyzed Canada's capital city and forced Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to invoke emergency powers.

Three Turkish journalists were released on Tuesday, hours after being jailed over their coverage of the deaths of Turkish intelligence officers in Libya in 2020, a lawyer and opposition member said.