In what's looking like a hugely significant first sign that Russia could be pulling back on the scope of its Ukraine operations, Bloomberg reports Friday that the Kremlin may be limiting its key military objectives to taking full control over the Donbas region.
Ukrainian President Zelensky's Thursday address stated in no uncertain terms that their lack of entrance into NATO had nothing to do with the status of their army.
"The names of Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Rachmaninov are being removed from playbills, Russian writers and their books are being banned," said the Russian president.
"We will not deploy troops on the ground in Ukraine, because the only way to do that is to be prepared to engage in a full conflict with Russian troops," said NATO's Stoltenberg.
Ukraine's digital identification system, known as Diia, is being used by the government to distribute money to Ukrainians displaced and unemployed by the war with Russia.
Russia's ministry of defense is accusing the United States Pentagon, CDC for Ukrainian Biolabs, as well as Hunter Biden and liberal philanthropist George Soros.
The United States plans to accept up to 100,000 Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion and is pledging $1 billion in new humanitarian aid, the Biden administration said on Thursday after a month of bombardments touched off Europe's fastest-moving refugee crisis since the end of World War Two.
