Live updates: Ukrainian mayor no longer in Russian custody

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Lower-level interactions between two sides have been ongoing, with the embassies in Moscow and Washington passing messages, much as they do with their missions at the United Nations.
52% : The men have asked for protection from the Romanian state and have applied for asylum, authorities said.
46% : The Investigative Committee, a law enforcement agency, listed three suspects, including Veronika Belotserkovskaya, who is a Russian-language cookbook author and popular blogger living abroad.
45% :Albania has joined the European Union in the hard-hitting sanctions against Russian top officials and institutions.
43% : Kosovo has condemned Ukraine's invasion by Russia and has joined the European Union and the U.S. with sanctions on Russia "over the unjustified and unprovoked aggression toward Ukraine."___TIRANA, Albania -- Albania has sheltered the first group of Ukrainians who have left the country after Russia's invasion.

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