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WNBA star Brittney Griner has been one of the league’s most outspoken players when it comes to protesting the national anthem, even as she makes patriotic appeals for the U.S. to arrange her release from a Russian prison sentence.

The coach of WNBA star Brittney Griner blasted Joe Biden’s White House for doing next to nothing to help get the player out of a Russian jail.

The EU Commission vowed to create a new emergency plan to reduce or remove Russian energy products, including pushing for more renewables.

Britain’s ministry of defence has predicted that Ukrainian food exports will fall by nearly two-thirds this year.

A potential cutting-off of Russian gas would lead to recession and “chaotic conditions”, various German officials are now warning.

Slovyansk is a city of splintered loyalties. With a large retired population, it is not uncommon to hear older residents express sympathy towards Russia or nostalgia for their Soviet past. There is also distrust of the Ukrainian army and government.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russian forces are pounding the city of Lysychansk and its surroundings in an all-out attempt to seize the last stronghold of resistance in eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk province, the governor said Saturday.

While the German government prevaricates around its self-imposed energy crisis, citizens are taking matters into their own hands to keep themselves warm this coming winter with sales of cheap, reliable wood burners soaring in Europe.

Boris Johnson’s government has confirmed that hundreds of Ukrainian soliders are being trained in Britain and pledged an additional £1 billion ($1,213,635,000) in militray aid to the country.

Britain plans to cut mainland Europe off from its supply of North Sea gas should severe supply shortages emerge due to ongoing hostilities with Russia.

Boris Johnson has claimed the Ukraine invasion represents Putin’s “toxic masculinity” and that it would not have happened if he was a woman.

The UK is facing a “1937 moment” in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and therefore must “mobilise” its military, General Sanders said.

Germany is in danger of seeing its economy lose nearly €200 billion should the Kremlin decide to end its supply of Russian gas.

The European Union law enforcement agency Europol has announced that it has identified several trafficking schemes directed toward vulnerable refugee women from Ukraine leading to sexual and labour exploitation. The police agency was able to identify various trafficking schemes online,

After a warning from the head of three power companies, France’s government has announced that it will restart a coal-fired plant this winter.

Those struggling with the ongoing cost of living crisis may be paid not to use energy in the hopes of averting rolling blackouts.

U.S. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada are reportedly blocking a British plan to fight food shortages and inflation by cutting back on biofuels in favour of edible crops, claiming it endangers their “net zero” ambitions.  

Energy companies in France have told the public that they must “immediately” reduce their energy usage as a result of Europe’s sanction war with Russia.

Boris Johnson pledged hundreds of millions of more to the Ukrain despite Britain being cash strapped amid the cost of living crisis.

Russia attacked the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Sunday morning, striking at least two residential buildings, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Ireland’s Prime Minister has told the public that they are in for a “difficult” winter as energy supplies across Europe begin to dwindle

Non-Ukrainians who fled in the wake of Russia’s invasion should go home rather than claim refugee status in France, the country said.

While the vast majority of Europeans support sanctions, less than half do if they mean price rises, which experience suggests they are.

Nike has decided to fully exit Russia three months after suspending operations in the country due to its invasion of Ukraine, the sportswear giant announced Thursday.

Germany has moved one step closer to rationing gas after the country triggered its second bout of emergency powers over the ongoing crisis.

Germany’s Finance Minister has called for the country to keep using nuclear power to ease the ongoing energy crisis, despite one energy tsar in the country labelling it “backwards”.

Russian doubles tennis player Natela Dzalamidze found a simple solution to widespread bans against Russian players in international sports after the invasion of Ukraine: she changed her nationality to Georgian and will therefore be allowed to play at Wimbledon with her Serbian doubles partner, Aleksandra Krunic.

Comedian Ben Stiller met fellow actor and current president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Monday to return attention to the ongoing, eight-year-old war between that country and Russia on the occasion of World Refugee Day.

Russia threatened action after Lithuania began to block sanctioned goods from travelling into the exclave of Kaliningrad.

The European Central Bank has suggested that the massive influx of Ukrainian refugees into the EU could be used to ease the bloc’s labour shortages.

The incoming commander of the British Army has told his troops to prepare to fight a land war in Europe, citing Russia as a significant threat to peace on the continent.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said the G7 that UKraine can expect to receive the support it needs “for as long as necessary.”

A plan proposed by U.S. President Joe Biden to see grain exported from Ukraine has had holes poked in it by Poland.

France will reportedly call for the creation of yet another globalist European institution, which could include both Ukraine and the UK.

A ruling by a Russian judge may conceivably be the reason the UK was forced to ground a plane scheduled to take illegal migrants to Rwanda.

Struggling under a massive wave of migrant arrivals, officials in open borders Ireland are now partly blaming a 600 per cent increase in asylum claims on the UK’s plans to send illegals to Rwanda