Live updates | Zelenskyy says Russia hopes for famine crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Zelenskyy's office says he and Colonna discussed sanctions, weapons supplies and Ukrainian aspirations to join the European Union.
53% : Scholz told German lawmakers three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started that the country would commit 100 billion euros ($107 billion) to a special fund for its military and raise its defense spending above 2% of GDP -- a measure on which it had long lagged.
50% : The city has served as the administrative center for the Luhansk region, which makes up Donbas together with the neighboring Donetsk region. ___ BERLIN -- Germany's governing parties and the main opposition party have reached a deal to move ahead with a big increase in defense spending that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced three months ago.
47% : And he said that "there is no need for a further explanation." ___ BRUSSELS -- Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is welcoming a proposal for the European Union to slap an embargo on Russian oil transported by ship and to exempt oil pumped overland through Ukraine to his country.
39% : But the United Nations is warning that the price hikes are coming as many parts of Africa are facing drought and hunger.
34% : Follow AP's coverage of the war in Ukraine at https://apnews.com/hub/russia-ukraine BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders reached a compromise Monday to impose a partial oil embargo on Russia at a summit focused on helping Ukraine with a long-delayed package of sanctions that was blocked by Hungary.

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