Washington is concerned about global fuel prices, Defense Secretary Austin has said Ukraine should go after military objectives, as strikes on Russian refineries could raise global oil prices, US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin told a Senate panel on Tuesday.
The death toll in Türkiye following two historic earthquakes has risen to 1,762, the country’s disaster response agency announced on Monday. Some 12,068 people were injured, and hundreds of deaths were reported in neighboring Syria.
Leo Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ and other works that supposedly glorify the Russian military will no longer be taught in Ukrainian schools, Kiev’s ministry of education announced on Tuesday. Tolstoy’s internationally recognized masterpiece joins other classic Russian books banned in Ukraine long before the current conflict.