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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine accused Russian forces Wednesday of hijacking an aid mission near the besieged city of Mariupol, where one of the worst humanitarian crises of the war has unfolded amid scarce supplies of food and water and streets of buildings reduced to rubble from ceaseless shelling.

NATO nations' leaders will agree at a summit on Thursday to agree on bolstering forces on the alliance's eastern flank, with the deployment of four new battle groups in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, NATO's secretary-general said.

Boris Johnson said the West ‘should not hesitate to go further in strengthening sanctions and providing further defensive military aid to Ukraine’.

NATO countries must make up for post-Cold War cuts to military equipment to give the alliance the capacity to respond swiftly to a conflict, the commander of NATO's quick reaction force, first in line to respond to a crisis, told Reuters.

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One month of war, still defiant. With its government still standing and its outnumbered troops battling Russian forces to bloody stalemates in multiple places, Ukraine is scarred, wounded, mourning its dead but far from beaten as it braces for a second month of bombing, combat, casualties and resistance.

With Europe facing its most precarious future since World War II, President Joe Biden will huddle with key allies in Brussels and Warsaw this week as the leaders try to prevent Russia’s war on Ukraine from spiraling into an even greater catastrophe. Biden embarks Wednesday on a four-day trip that…

U.S. ratings in many countries matched or surpassed levels during the Obama years.

While China will help Russia get around sanctions, it is more focused on problems closer to home.

The Kremlin on Wednesday said any possible contact between the Russian military and NATO forces could have grave consequences, after Poland last week said peacekeepers should be sent to Ukraine.

Western allies have already clinched the most important part of what all will be looking for in three summits on Thursday held in Europe's diplomatic capital of Brussels