Turkey has agreed to support Finnish and Swedish NATO membership applications, the Turkish government confirmed on Tuesday.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the UN Security Council on Tuesday, a day after a deadly attack on a shopping mall in Ukraine, calling for Russia to be removed as a permanent member of the group.
The attack in Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, sparked international outrage.
Zelensky called it "one of the most challenging terrorist acts in European history."
Russia has defaulted on its foreign debt for the first time in more than a century.
While Moscow denies being in non-compliance, the United States says it has shown the power of Western sanctions against Moscow.
