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“It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made,” one European leader wrote after arriving in Ukraine’s battered capital.

The Ukrainian president’s emotional speech to Canadian lawmakers underscored how he has increasingly cast himself as a spokesman for liberal democracy.

With a crisis rocking Europe, the left is shelving demands for defense cuts and a swift end to fossil fuels, while on the right, Trump-era foreign policy and criticism of Ukraine are fading.

Russian missiles hit a military base being used to train foreign volunteers who want to help Ukraine repel the invasion, killing a reported 35 people just 11 miles from the Polish border.

Residents of a town near Poland’s border awoke to frightful sounds and an awareness they were no longer safe.

The country’s leaders think it can shield itself from economic and diplomatic fallout and eventually be seen as a pillar of stability.

Attempts at diplomacy have hit a stone wall as President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia refuses to engage in any serious negotiation, but his endgame is unclear.

With civilian areas coming under fire and an estimated half the population having fled, the avenues of the Ukrainian capital, under siege by Russian forces, are almost deserted.

Russian missiles hit a military base being used to train foreign volunteers who want to help Ukraine repel the invasion, killing a reported 35 people just 11 miles from the Polish border.

Plus China’s effort to contain its biggest coronavirus outbreak since Wuhan.