World

(Reuters) – A Texas software developer and a cook in British Columbia are among dozens of Americans and Canadians answering Ukraine’s call for foreign volunteers to fight Russia’s invasion.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Shell SHEL.L will exit all its Russian operations, including a major liquefied natural gas plant, it said today, becoming the latest major Western energy company to quit the oil-rich country following Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

HELSINKI,  (Reuters) – Finland will send weapons and ammunition to Ukraine, Prime Minister Sanna Marin said today, in a shift of policy.

FRANKFURT/VIENNA/SARAJEVO, (Reuters) – The European arm of Sberbank SBER.MM, Russia’s biggest lender, faces failure, the European Central Bank (ECB) warned today, after a run on its deposits sparked by the backlash from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

KYIV/MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian artillery bombarded residential districts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv today, with Moscow facing increasing international isolation as talks to resolve the conflict failed to make a breakthrough.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain said today it was taking further measures against Russia in concert with the United States and European Union, effectively cutting off Moscow’s major financial institutions from Western financial markets.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Russian billionaire businessman Roman Abramovich, who owns Premier League club Chelsea, has accepted a Ukrainian request to help negotiate an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, his spokeswoman said.

KYIV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert yesterday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia’s assault on Ukraine a “war” on Sunday and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to do: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt.

OSLO, (Reuters) – Norwegian energy group Equinor EQNR.OL said today it will start the process of divesting from its joint ventures in Russia amid Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

LONDON, (Reuters) – BP BP.L is abandoning its 19.75% stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft ROSN.MM

LONDON, (Reuters) – Two Russian billionaires, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska, called for an end to the conflict triggered by President Vladimir Putin’s assault on Ukraine, with Fridman calling it a tragedy for both countries’ people.

KYIV/MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin put Russia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert yesterday in the face of a barrage of Western reprisals for his war on Ukraine, which said it had repelled Russian ground forces attacking its biggest cities.

PRAGUE,  (Reuters) – The Czech government on Sunday increased military aid to Ukraine as it battles Russian troops, backing an additional package worth 400 million crowns ($18.23 million), while Slovakia also approved a second aid shipment in as many days.

TOKYO,  (Reuters) – Japan will join the United States and other Western countries in blocking certain Russian banks’ access to the SWIFT international payment system, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said today, following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – Turkey called Russia’s invasion of Ukraine a “war” today in a rhetorical shift that could pave the way for the NATO member nation to enact an international pact limiting Russian naval passage to the Black Sea.

KYIV, (Reuters) – Western allies announced sweeping new sanctions against Moscow yesterday, including kicking some Russian banks off the main global payments system, as a defiant President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukrainian forces were repelling Russian troops advancing on Kyiv.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Ukraine will create an “IT army” to fight against Russia’s digital intrusions, Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Germany will supply Ukraine with defensive anti-tank weapons, surface-to-air missiles and ammunition, the government said yesterday, in a shift of policy as Russia’s forces continued to pound Kyiv and other cities on day three of its campaign.