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Leaders of the two countries on Monday will address Turkey’s objections over their bids to join the bloc. In Ukraine, Russia made gains in the Donbas region.

The European Commission is expected to recommend that the country be granted candidate status, the first formal step in a process that normally takes more than a decade.

The leaders traveled to Ukraine and will also meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky as his forces struggle to stop Russia. A day after the U.S. pledged $1 billion in additional military aid to Ukraine, NATO defense ministers are meeting to discuss the alliance’s future direction.

Seeking to overcome tensions with Kyiv, President Emmanuel Macron of France and Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany backed away from Moscow diplomacy, at least for now.

In their first wartime visit to Kyiv, the leaders of France and Germany countered doubts about their commitment to Ukraine defeating Russia, but did not promise the weapons Ukrainians have called for.

Western officials prepare to meet in Brussels this week amid growing European concerns about the costs and risks of the war in Ukraine.

The last bridge to the city of Sievierodonetsk fell as street battles raged, and some Western officials questioned Ukraine’s ability to keep resisting the Russian onslaught.

A day after Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to attack new targets if Western nations supplied Ukraine with long-range missile systems, Britain announced Monday that it would join the United States in providing the advanced weapons to help Ukraine hold off Russia's assault in the east.

The monks and nuns cloistered in a monastery complex in eastern Ukraine absorb daily bombardments from Russian artillery. And yet they remain loyal to the Russian Orthodox Church.

Soldiers desperate for advanced arms to match their Russian enemies have resorted to Google Translate to decipher the instructions for their sophisticated new tools.