Ukraine urges residents of the Donbas region to leave while they still can as Russia prepares offensive on country's east. Mariupol says 5,000 civilians, including 210 children, killed during weeks of Russian bombardment and fighting.
Decrying war crimes in Ukraine, Washington announces fresh sanctions on banks and officials, stops debt payments from frozen reserves. International creditors face stringent capital controls as Russia's credit default swaps rise sharply.
Ukraine proposes that as an alternative to NATO membership, something Russia insists it cannot accept, individual countries like Germany, Turkey or China could offer guarantees with a similar effect.
The board of the Hispanic Jewish Foundation erects a monument in the port of Cartagena "as a gesture of the new relationship between the Hispanic and Jewish worlds."
A two-thirds majority of voting General Assembly members in New York can suspend a country for committing gross and systematic violations of human rights.
The cup in which Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker offered a gunman tea and the chair he later threw at him are symbolic of fundamental Jewish values welcoming strangers and Redeeming captives, says Misha Galperin, president of the Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia.
Zelenskyy keeps up demands for war-crimes trials for Russian troops. European Council president calls on EU countries to consider offering asylum to Russian soldiers willing to desert Ukraine battlefields. Car rams into the gate of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, killing the driver. Turkey moves its embassy in Ukraine back to Kyiv.
Ahead of France's presidential election, French politician Marine Le Pen defends herself as the one who is "likely to most effectively protect French people of the Jewish faith," who are victims of "increasingly numerous" antisemitic acts.
In a tight Michigan primary race with Rep. Andy Levin, she spoke about the Jewish state’s importance to the global supply chain, saying she wants strong trade between the two nations.
The US, G7, and EU will target Russian banks and officials and ban new investment in Russia to deplete the resources Putin has to continue his war against Ukraine and "force them to make a choice,” White House press secretary says.
