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An embattled Ukraine moved to solidify its bond with the West on Monday by signing an application to join the European Union, while the first round of Ukraine-Russia talks aimed at ending the fighting concluded with no immediate agreements.

Iran is studying a rough draft of a deal to revive a 2015 nuclear agreement with major powers hammered out during talks in Vienna, its foreign minister said Saturday.

Amid relentless attacks by Russian forces, negotiators for Kyiv and Moscow have begun ceasefire talks in Belarus. But expectations were not high as the Russian invasion of Ukraine entered its 5th day.

As the war further escalated in Ukraine, Belarus cleared the way for the country to host Russian nuclear weapons.

More than 400 Russian mercenaries are reportedly in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv with orders from the Kremlin to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelensky and his government and prepare the ground for Moscow to take control.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has turned down an offer by the United States to be evacuated from Kyiv despite Russian forces encircling the capital.

The United States and Western allies sought to cripple Russia’s banking sector and currency Saturday with an extraordinary set of sanctions punishing Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

The European Union plans to take the unprecedented step of funding weapons purchases for Ukraine, EU officials said on February 27 as the bloc announced a raft of new sanctions in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The world came a step closer to nuclear warfare Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin ordering the military to put units that also possess nuclear weapons on high alert.

Ukraine says Russian troops have entered the country’s second-largest city of Kharkiv, where a gas pipeline was earlier attacked, and there was concern about nuclear radiation.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán rushed to his nation’s border with war-torn Ukraine Saturday after warning that as many as 600,000 people may seek refuge in Hungary.

Hungary’s foreign minister says Budapest wants to host peace talks between neighboring Ukraine and Russia.

Undeterred by international sanctions and condemnation, Russia sought Friday to topple Ukraine’s democratically elected government. The announcement came as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the world had abandoned Ukraine as the nation faced a full-scale Russian invasion.

Ukraine’s democratically elected president warned his nation Friday that the world abandoned it and that he may soon be eliminated as Russian forces entered the capital Kyiv as part of a massive Russian invasion.

Thousands of Hungarians have protested in Budapest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine decades after Russian forces overran their nation.

With the world watching but not interfering, some 200,000 Russian troops attacked and invaded Ukraine on Thursday, and the death toll reportedly rose to at least 137 people.

President Biden on Thursday ordered an additional 7,000 Army troops to Europe to bolster NATO allies while vowing to implement “devastating” economic sanctions on Russia for its brazen invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

Protests against the Russian invasion of Ukraine took place all across Russia on Thursday, and over 1,000 protestors have been arrested.

European Union leaders have agreed to impose sanctions against Russia that they say will have “massive and severe consequences” in response to President Vladimir Putin’s “barbaric” invasion of Ukraine.

The Chernobyl nuclear power plant and the exclusion zone around it has been captured by Russian forces, Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said on February 24.