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Valery Gergiev was fired as chief conductor of the Munich Philharmonic for supporting Putin and not rejecting the invasion of Ukraine, officials said.
Ukraine's delegation arrived on the border with Belarus for scheduled talks with Russia, as Western sanctions put pressure on the country's economy.
The European Union is closing its airspace to Russian airlines, and spending hundreds of millions of dollars to supply weapons to Ukraine.
While some tried fleeing by car or train, others traveled miles by foot toward border crossings, hoping for safe refuge.
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Scott Pace, the former head of the National Space Council, said the space station “has been largely isolated” from political events.
Some airlines have canceled flights to the capital of Ukraine and troops there have unloaded fresh shipments of weapons from NATO members.
Moscow has denied it is planning an assault, despite sending an estimated 100,000 troops near Ukraine in recent weeks.
The administration believes Russia is also laying the groundwork by framing Ukraine as an aggressor that has been preparing an imminent attack against Russian forces.
At least 200 U.S. businesses were hit, according to a cybersecurity firm that believes Russians are behind the attack.
Leonid Sviridov insists he never acted as an agent for Russia