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Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has unexpectedly turned over the "stewardship and care" of the British Premier League soccer team to its charitable foundation trustees, the Russian billionaire announced.

Iran’s foreign minister said his country is studying a rough draft of a deal to revive the landmark 2015 nuclear deal after the sides hammered out details in Vienna on February 26.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has accused some Western countries, and Germany in particular, for allowing their "unyielding egoism" to keep them from pushing for the "crushing" sanctions needed against Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Two RFE/RL Russian Service correspondents and two journalists from the independent newspaper Novaya gazeta were detained by police in the western Russian city of Belgorod on February 26.

The German government says it will supply 1,000 antitank and 500 Stinger antiaircraft missiles to bolster Ukraine’s defenses in the face of an unprovoked onslaught by Russian forces, in a significant shift in Berlin’s policy regarding the war.

Lashing Out At West, Former Russian President Calls For ‘Nationalizing’ Foreign Assets, Ending Diplomacy

French President Emmanuel Macron has told the presidents of Georgia and Moldova – each facing Russia-backed separatist regions in their own country -- that France would support them "against any tension or destabilization attempt."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he welcomes offers by Azerbaijan and Turkey to organize talks with Moscow as Russian troops continue their invasion of Ukraine and drive on toward the capital, Kyiv.

Welcome to our live briefing -- updated throughout the day -- on Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how Kyiv and the West are reacting. For all of our c

Ukrainian soldiers whom Current Time caught up with on February 23 in the Donetsk city of Horlivka -- a town on the front line with Russia-backed separatists -- said they have noticed a change since Russian President Vladimir Putin recognized the separatist entities as independent states. Although separatist fighters have so far not attempted to move the line of contact itself, the intensity of the shelling has increased and it has become qualitatively better, they say. In the words of one Ukrai...