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A former fighter from the Wagner mercenary group, who was recruited from prison to fight in Ukraine, was sentenced to 17 years in prison on February 28 after a court in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk found him guilty of sexually assaulting two schoolgirls last year.

Ukraine´s president pleaded Wednesday for more ammunition to repel Russian advances as he co-hosted a summit with Albania's government.

Security has been beefed up at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Moscow, where opposition politician Aleksei Navalny, who died in a remote Arctic prison almost two weeks ago, is expected to be buried on March 1.

EU Enlargement Commissioner Oliver Varhelyi on February 29 told a summit of Western Balkan leaders in Tirana that the bloc's six billion euro ($6.5 billion) development plan for the region could double their countries' economic output over the next decade if timely reforms are implemented. 

Opinion | Russia's most prominent opposition politician, Alexei Navalny, was murdered in a Russian prison on Feb. 16. As Navalny's team, along with his family, prepares to bid farewell to the politician, the rest of the anti-war Russian-speaking world is mourning a man described as last departed hope for a free Russia.

ONE 166: Qatar Preview and Predictions

Ukraine’s president has co-hosted a summit with Albania’s government on Wednesday that’s meant to encourage further support for Kyiv by southeastern European countries as signs of fatigue grow two years after Russia’s invasion. Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday said he would discuss defense and political issues with host Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and support to Ukraine's war against Russia the Peace Formula and organizing a global summit in Switzerland. Not all...

- Focus on 2nd reading of US Q4 GDP data. - RBNZ kept its policy steady and softened its previous threat to lift rates even further.

Albania is the latest stop in an international tour that saw the Ukrainian President push for a peace plan and the return of prisoners of war from Russia

Serbia opened its borders in recent years to tens of thousands of Russians fleeing the government of President Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine.