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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced this weekend that he had held a video conversation with American late night comedian Jimmy Fallon to discuss “options for cooperation” to bring awareness to Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian rocket and artillery strikes hit areas across the Dnieper River from Europe’s largest nuclear power plant, Ukrainian officials said Sunday, as fears persisted that fighting in the vicinity could damage the plant and cause a radiation leak.

The Latvian government has gone ahead with the demolition of a Soviet-era war memorial in the capital city of Riga this week, the latest Soviet monument to be destroyed since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The economic powerhouses of the European Union, France and Germany, both set records on Friday for electricity prices, as the West’s sanctions war with Russia continues to bite.

UK residents will see an 80 per cent increase in their annual household energy bills, the country’s energy regulator announced Friday, following a record 54 per cent spike in April. That will bring costs for the average customer from 1,971 pounds ($2,332) a year to 3,549 pounds.

As politicians in the country brace themselves for possible riots over the winter months due to ongoing gas chaos, Germany’s leftist Chancellor has insisted that the country’s “hearts and borders” will nevertheless “remain open”.

A report from the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) has claimed that around 300,000 non-Ukrainian migrants have arrived in the EU among those supposedly fleeing the conflict in Ukraine.

A surge in the number of migrants entering Ireland has resulted in it seeing its highest population growth since the 2008 banking crash.

Boris Johnson said the UK taxpayer should bear the cost of funding the war in Ukraine, as the Ukrainian people are “paying with their blood”.

President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the French public may react poorly to what he calls the “end of abundance” in France and Europe, as multiple crises brought about largely by political management wreak havoc on the continent.

President Zelensky vowed that Ukraine will resist Russia “until the end” without “any concession”, as the nation marks its Independence Day.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has decided to show Britain’s solidarity with Ukraine by saying it with flowers on Tuesday.

NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which hits the half-year mark this week, has already killed some 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers, a general said, and the fighting Monday showed no signs that the war is abating.

MOSCOW (AP) – Russia’s top counter-intelligence agency on Monday blamed Ukrainian spy services for organizing the killing of the daughter of a leading Russian nationalist ideologue in a car bombing just outside Moscow.

NIKOPOL, Ukraine (AP) – Only hours after the latest international pleas to spare the area around Ukraine’s main nuclear plant from attacks, there were new claims of Russian shelling close to the Zaporizhzhya facilities early Monday.

With Joe Biden having failed entirely to free WNBA star Brittney Griner from her Russian cell, the Biden administration has given the okay to former NBA player Dennis Rodman to head to Russia and try to win her release.

Darya Dugina, daughter of the Russian nationalist philospher Alexander Dugin, sometimes described as “Putin’s brain”, has died after a car her father was due to travel in exploded. 

Ukrainian boxer Oleksandr Usyk has retained his heavyweight championship belts by winning his rematch with Anthony Joshua in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, causing the latter to have a meltdown in the ring.

Crop losses of up to 50 per cent are now expected in parts of Germany due to drought, farmers in affected regions have claimed.

GENEVA (AP) – Europe’s embrace of millions of Ukrainians who fled Russia’s invasion showed that it’s possible to welcome large numbers of asylum seekers, and the approach should be replicated to receive those fleeing other nations, the head of the UN refugee agency said.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Russian military said Thursday that it has deployed warplanes armed with state-of-the-art hypersonic missiles to the country’s westernmost Baltic region, a move that comes amid soaring tensions with the West over Moscow’s action in Ukraine.

Those taking the German government to task over the ongoing gas crisis have been branded as the “new enemies of the state” by one minister in the country.

Estonia’s government said Tuesday it has decided to remove a Soviet-era monument from public space in an eastern border town.

The left-wing leader of a rail union in Britain has cited EU influence in Ukraine, as well as the country’s alleged use of “Nazi imagery”, as leading to Russia’s invasion.

On Monday, Russian attorneys for WNBA star Brittney Griner filed an appeal of her nine-year sentence for possession of illegal drugs.

Lt. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Russian warplanes have struck Ukrainian army positions in the southern Kherson region and in the Donetsk region. He added that the Russian air force also hit a facility in the Kharkiv region, killing at least 100 and wounding 50 “mercenaries” from the West.

The Irish government’s decision to spend around €1 billion on migrants in 2022 is “outrageous”, a populist leader within the country has said.

(AP) – Russia’s envoy to international organizations based in Vienna, Mikhail Ulyanov, called on Ukraine to stop attacking the plant in order to allow an inspection mission from the International Atomic Energy Agency.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia’s military pounded residential areas across Ukraine overnight, claiming gains, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counteroffensive to try to take back an occupied southern region, striking the last working bridge over a river in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, Ukrainian authorities said Saturday.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – On a day of give and take, Western nations made more pledges to send arms to Ukraine while the European Union’s full ban on Russian coal imports kicked in Thursday, adding to the sanctions against Moscow that intelligence claims are hurting its defence exports.

BERLIN (AP) – Latvia’s parliament on Thursday declared Russia a “state sponsor of terrorism” for attacks on civilians during the war in Ukraine and urged other countries to follow suit.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Estonia decided Thursday to bar people from neighbouring Russia with tourist visas from entering the northernmost Baltic country as a consequence of the war in Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukraine said Wednesday that nine Russian warplanes were destroyed in a deadly string of explosions at an air base in Crimea that appeared to be the result of a Ukrainian attack, which would represent a significant escalation in the war.

Germany’s dependence on China — now its largest trading partner — makes it incredibly vulnerable to a future east-west trade war.

Germany’s Antifa-linked Interior Minister has threatened the public with consequences should they decide to like posts she disapproves of on social media.

As average Americans worry about record inflation, the price of gas, and soaring crime at home, Hollywood wants to remind you yet again that what you should really care about is Ukraine.