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The Latvian Office of Citizenship and Migration Affairs and a Latvian court have refused to grant asylum to a Russian citizen who claimed that the Russian authorities wanted to forcibly send him to fight in Ukraine.
Last year, the Iraqi parliament passed legislation criminalizing any form of "normalization" with Israel.
Decision by Ireland’s privacy regulator will set record for breach of EU’s data protection rules
Russia has already lost more than 100,000 of its troops in the battle for Bakhmut, U.S. President Joe Biden said during a press conference on May 21 after the G7 summit in Japan.
Russia and Ukraine gave conflicting accounts of the situation in Bakhmut, with Kyiv saying it controlled a small part of the city while Moscow congratulated the Wagner private army and Russian troops for "liberating" it.
The Ukrainian president said the devastation in the destroyed Donbas city reminded him of pictures he had seen of Hiroshima after the nuclear attack.
Hanna Maliar, Ukraine’s Deputy Defence Minister, has said that Ukrainian defenders have semi-encircled the city of Bakhmut, enabling them to effectively destroy the Russian army in that area.
Joe Biden, President of the United States, said he had received a “flat assurance” from Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukrainian troops would not use Western-provided F-16 fighter jets to invade Russian territory.
U.S. President Joe Biden announced a new $375 million package of military aid to Ukraine on Sunday and told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that the United States was doing all it could to strengthen Ukraine's defense for the war with Russia.
Joe Biden says US doing everything possible to strengthen Ukraine’s defences in war with Russia
The eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been the site of fierce fighting between Ukrainian and Russian forces for months. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian president, however, said the city had not yet fallen to Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday congratulated the Wagner mercenary force and the Russian army for what he called the "liberation" of the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which Russia calls by its Soviet-era name of Artyomovsk.
"We ate food with no caloric value," one soldier said. He lost 65 pounds while imprisoned.
"It's a pity, it's a tragedy, but for today Bakhmut is only in our hearts," Ukraine's president says.
Public attitudes are mixed, with majority support for various coercive methods but only 1 per cent wanting war right now, survey finds.