Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has traveled to France, his second foreign destination in a single day after the United Kingdom, where he met with French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, pressing them for more weaponry, fighter jets in particular, amid the ongoing war with Russia.

Germany has approved sending 178 of its Leopard 1 tanks to Ukraine, a report says, almost two weeks after Berlin agreed to send several of its state-of-the-art Leopard 2 tanks to the ex-Soviet republic following intense pressure from allies.

“Putin has been and remains open to contacts,” the Kremlin says.

Russia's energy giant Gazprom says the sanctions imposed by the West against Moscow have made it impossible for the company to receive a turbine needed to keep gas flowing to Europe.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Germans to "stick together" amid the rising cost of living.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz says NATO will continue to supply Ukraine with weapons in the war against Russia for "as long as necessary".

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has reaffirmed his country’s policy on Ukraine, saying Berlin will help Kiev but won't give in to every demand, as the conflict rages on in eastern Ukraine.