Western businesses have exited Russia in droves since the country’s invasion of Ukraine, often citing humanitarian reasons as justification — yet many continue to maintain healthy relationships with China.
Churches in countries neighboring Ukraine have opened their doors to shelter and aid refugees as the United Nations refugee agency estimated Thursday that 1 million people have fled the Eastern European nation since the beginning of Russia's invasion last week.
The National Executive Committee of the largest veterans group in the nation, the American Legion, voted to call for a peaceful resolution in Ukraine and no troop movement to the area without conditions being met.
Peace talks came to an end between the warring Russia-Ukraine delegations with the only concession being in the area of humanitarian corridors, as the United States begins sharing real-time intelligence with Kiev.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky issued an address to the Russian people on Thursday, according to state media, in which he announced that Russia would pay “reparations” and rebuild “everything” the ongoing war has destroyed in Ukraine.
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