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The U.S. military warned that Russian troops will most likely carry out a major offensive in the east. Austria’s chancellor plans to meet President Putin in Moscow, making him the first European leader to do so since the war.

President Emmanuel Macron is expected to finish first, but polls suggest that he’s likely to face the far-right leader Marine Le Pen in the second round, in a rematch of their 2017 runoff.

Fears grew after Russia appointed a general who is accused of atrocities in Syria to lead its war effort in Ukraine. Prime Minister Boris Johnson made an unannounced visit to Kyiv and pledged to send more weapons.

Moscow denied responsibility for the missile strike in Kramatorsk that killed at least 50, but the Pentagon said Russian forces were behind it. Ukraine’s railway service said evacuations would proceed from a nearby city.

The Ax-1 mission will carry three paying passengers and a retired NASA astronaut to orbit for the company Axiom Space.

Authorities want the city’s 7.4 million residents to test themselves over three days beginning on Friday. It is part of a zero-Covid strategy dictated by Beijing. New York City and Washington are battling a rise in cases that has upended Broadway and the federal government.

Delays in producing the pickup have allowed rivals like Ford to beat Tesla to market with electric pickups.

Russian troops have been withdrawing from the north. U.S. lawmakers moved to ban Russia’s oil and gas, and the E.U. approved a phased-in ban of its coal.

Officials said that healthy adults still had significant protection against severe disease. The World Health Organization said some countries in the Americas were prematurely scaling back policies.

Judge Jackson’s elevation as the first Black woman on the Supreme Court is essentially assured, but first the Senate must take two critical steps to confirm her.