Biden's comments on Saturday, including a statement earlier in the day calling Putin a 'butcher,' were a sharp escalation of the US approach to Moscow over its invasion of Ukraine
During the meeting, Biden promised to achieve Ukraine's victory in the war with Russia
Russia continues to pound cities throughout Ukraine explosions rang out Saturday near the western city of Lviv, a destination for refugees that has been largely spared from major attacks
'There were three powerful explosions near Lviv from the direction of Kryvchytsy, now there is an air raid warning, so keep calm and take shelter,' said regional Governor in an online post
On Friday, a senior military official said the real objective was to "liberate" the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine
The war may also soon result in major food security challenges, particularly across the Middle East, which imports vast quantities of grain from Ukraine
A summary of the IMF report released earlier in the month said Sri Lanka faced unsustainable debt levels and needed a 'credible and coherent' strategy to restore stability
The Chief Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine's Ministry of Defence said that that the Russian budget does not have funds for further payments to the military for the ongoing war against Kiev
Last year, Russian-backed RT received an International Emmy nomination in the news category for 'Nagorno-Karabakh War: Bloodshed And Path To Ceasefire'
Last week, Erdogan had renewed his offer to bring the leaders of Russia and Ukraine together in Turkey for final decisions on these topics
Spotify said it had no choice but to leave the Russian market, citing the law that essentially outlaws independent journalism
There were a total of 71 deaths and 37 injuries as a result of these attacks, the SSA added
As Moscow's invasion of Kiev has been underway for more than a month now, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksy said that his country's forces "have dealt powerful blows to the enemy"
The CERN Council, the governing body of the Geneva-based lab with 23 member states, announced Friday that its scientists will suspend participation in all scientific committees in Russia
The United Kingdom will provide Ukraine with essential food supplies worth 2 million pounds, the UK Foreign Ministry said
Putin earlier compared recent Western criticism of Russia with efforts to cancel Rowling over her views on transgender issues
More than 3.5 million Ukrainians have fled the country since the Feb 24 invasion, including about 2.2 million to Poland, according to the United Nations
The main tasks of the first stage of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine have been completed in general, the Russian military has said.
In certain quarters it was believed in the early nineties that Russia was almost trapped into believing that it could even join NATO
The Associated Press has independently documented at least 34 assaults on Ukrainian medical facilities by Russian forces. AP journalists in Ukraine have seen firsthand the deadly results of Russian strikes on civilian targets, including the final moments of children whose bodies were shredded by shrapnel and dozens of corpses heaped into mass graves. AP journalists outside Ukraine have confirmed the details of other attacks by interviewing survivors and independently verifying war zone videos and photos posted online. The accounting is part of the War Crimes Watch Ukraine project, a broader effort by AP and PBS Frontline to track evidence of potential war crimes for the duration of the conflict. The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights confirms at least 1,035 civilians, including 90 children, have died and another 1,650 civilians have been wounded since the war started a month ago. Those numbers are certainly an undercount since scores of bodies now lie under the rubb