Time magazine named President Volodymyr Zelensky as well as "the spirit of Ukraine" as its 2022 person of the year on Wednesday, for the resistance the country has shown in the face of Russia's invasion.

Calling Zelensky's decision to remain in Kyiv and rally his country amid the ongoing war "fateful," Time editor-in-chief Edward Felsenthal said

The Kremlin has urged members of the presidential Human Rights Council “not to upset” Russian leader Vladimir Putin with thorny questions about the war in Ukraine when they meet Wednesday, independent media reported, citing unnamed sources close to the council.

According to the investigative news website Vyorstka, HRC chairman Valery Fadeyev

The Russian embassy in Berlin on Wednesday denied maintaining links to far-right terror groups in Germany after a Russian woman was among 25 people arrested in a series of police raids over a suspected plot to overthrow the government.

"The Russian Embassy in Germany would like to make clear that Russian diplomatic and consular offices in Germany

Western airlines should prepare to return to Russian airspace when the war in Ukraine has ended, the head of the global airline trade groupsaid Tuesday.

Flights between Russia and the West came to a virtual standstill following mutual airspace bans in the wake of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February. The closures limited Russian-owned and