Member states are racing to meet their pledge to supply 1 million artillery shells to Kiev by next year The EU has authorized at least €27 billion in direct military assistance to Ukraine since last year, the bloc’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, said, touting the aid as the “highest figure ever reached.”

Supplies must be sent to poor countries and not to wealthy Western states, the Russian finance minister told RT Russia supports the extension of the grain transport deal but only under strict compliance with the UN-backed agreement, Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told RT at the G20 summit on Wednesday.

A thoroughfare in Melitopol will soon be called after Darya Dugina, a Russian civic body has reported The city of Melitopol in Russia’s Zaporozhye Region will rename one of its streets after journalist Darya Dugina, a state advisory body has announced. Dugina was killed last year by a car bomb, which investigators alleged was planted by…