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A car carrying containers of flammable substances crashed into the Russian Embassy in Romania, bursting into flames and killing the driver.

One European minister is set to demand that the public turn down their thermostats and have shorter showers to save money before hiking carbon tax.

German supermarkets are raising prices by as much as 50% on some goods such as cooking oils, meat, and cheese due to the war in Ukraine. 

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has toured the town of Bucha, near Kyiv (Kiev), where retreating Russian forces are alleged to have left murdered civilians in their wake.

VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) – Lithuania on Monday announced that it will expel Russia’s ambassador and recall its envoy in Moscow in reaction to increasing signs that Russian forces may have committed war crimes in Ukraine.

MOSCOW (AP) – The Kremlin has strongly rejected the accusations that Russian troops committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine and pushed for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

Hungary’s national conservative prime minister, Viktor Orbán, has won a fourth consecutive term of office, matching Germany’s Angela Merkel — despite the establishment left, far left, and even the far right teaming up to oust him at the ballot box.

CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) – Authorities in the tiny breakaway region of Transnistria in Moldova denied “absolutely untrue” claims Saturday by Ukraine that Russian troops based there are massing to conduct “provocations” along Ukraine’s border.

A Russian government official has threatened that Russia will limit its vital food exports to only nations it considers “friendly”.

Ukrainian forces have found bodies littering the streets of Bucha, a key town near Kyiv (Kiev), after Russia’s retreat from the region. (Warning: graphic images.)

LVIV, Ukraine (AP) — A series of blasts has torn through the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar nearby the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant. Ukraine’s state nuclear agency reported about Saturday’s attacks on its official Telegram channel.

French military intelligence chief General Eric Vidaud is to lose his job over the failure to predict Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, in a rare example of Western high officials facing real consequences for institutional failure.

A leading economist has declared that economic globalisation is now ‘over’ as a result of the Ukraine war.

British regulators announced the nations two fracking sites will not have to be covered in concrete for the next year to conduct research.

Despite facing a chronic energy crisis, Germany has continued its Green crusade of shutting down hydrocarbon-fueled power plants.

The left-wing party Labour Party has called for post-Brexit Britain to sign onto a security pact with the EU, citing the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s leading English-language state media outlet has traduced Germany’s political class, including Angela Merkel and the sitting Chancellor and President, as bearing “collective responsibility” for having “effectively encouraged” Russian aggression.

Pro-migrant activists have expressed frustration as Poland continues to welcome refugees from Ukraine but turns away illegal immigrants.

Ireland’s open borders are being used by refugees to sneak into the UK, the country’s Local Government Association believes.

Up to 35,000 new homes need to be built in Ireland for Ukrainian refugees, many of which may never leave the country, the govt said.

EU Interior Ministers have agreed to a ten-point plan to help settle the millions of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the Russian invasion.

Germany’s addiction to Russian gas has come to backfire on the European state, with one minister saying that the country is now suffering ‘in the most brutal way’ thanks to the policymaking of previous administrations.

There are difficult months ahead for Eurozone nations, with the head of Europe’s ECB warning that the ongoing Ukraine Crisis poses ‘significant’ dangers to the currency union.

Economy Minister Robert Habeck has declared an early warning level over Russian gas supplies that has seen speculation of coming rationing.

Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party is maintaining a significant lead over its leftist rivals, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán remains significantly popular with active voters.

The Russian Defense Ministry accused President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday of using a Ukrainian synagogue “as gathering and transfer points for weapons and Nazis to participate in hostilities.”

Ukrainians said they “have faith” their homeland will “beat the evil” and that they can return to their country to rebuild after the war.

The U.N. refugee agency said Wednesday more than 4 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its war.

Ukraine’s ‘Democratic’ government has demanded that all countries across the world ‘criminalize’ the use of Russia’s ‘Z’ symbol.

Germany saw the price of imported energy more than double in February of last year, primarily as a result of the rising cost of Russian gas.

The Spanish government has announced it will be aiming to reduce petrol prices by 20 cents per litre in an effort to combat rising energy prices affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez announced a

Fifty percent of likely voters believe Joe Biden is making a colossal mistake by using the Ukraine war to “bleed Russia dry [and] topple [Vladimir] Putin,” according to a poll by Rasmussen Reports released Monday.

Russia has said that it is looking to Asia as a potential market for oil as Germany commits itself to wean itself off of Moscow’s supply.

BEIJING (AP) – China’s ambassador to the U.S. says that of all parties concerned in the Ukraine, only China has Russia’s ear.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) – Dutch brewing giant Heineken says it is pulling out of Russia amid Moscow’s ongoing war against Ukraine.

U.S. President Joe Biden has earned a rebuke from the once-admiring British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for his “dangerous” remarks on Russian regime change.