A woman was reportedly detained for protesting the invasion of Ukraine during a live newscast on Monday, calling for an end to the war with Ukraine.
Driving the news: The woman stood behind a state-run Channel One broadcaster, holding a sign that read "Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you." She simultaneously shouted “Stop the war! No to war!”
Aid workers in Afghanistan tell Axios the Taliban has granted them an unexpected level of access to do their work, but that they still lack resources needed to combat wide-spread hunger.
Why it matters: Afghans will die without humanitarian assistance and aid groups say that to provide that assistance, they must engage with the Taliban — no matter whether the group tries to use them to prove its international legitimacy.
Fox News journalist Benjamin Hall was injured while newsgathering outside of Kyiv on Monday and is hospitalized, the network said Monday.
What they're saying: "The safety of our entire team of journalists in Ukraine and the surrounding regions is our top priority and of the utmost importance," Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott wrote in a memo that was read on air Monday.
The U.K. government is looking into the possibility of housing Ukrainian refugees in the mansions of sanctioned Russian oligarchs, according to the Press Association.
Peace talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials paused Monday, according to Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak, who said the negotiations would resume on Tuesday.
The latest: Negotiations were held as Russian forces escalated their attacks on Kyiv. The Ukrainian state emergency service said Monday that two people were killed and at least nine were injured after a strike hit an apartment block on the north side of the capital.
Why it matters: If he is extradited, Assange will face trial in the U.S. on 18 counts related to WikiLeaks' release of vast troves of confidential U.S. military records and a potential sentence of up to 175 years in prison.
The U.S. has told allies in Europe and Asia that China has signaled a willingness to provide Russia military support in its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine, the Financial Times reported Monday.
Why it matters: Russia is believed to have asked China for equipment and other assistance as reports indicate the Russian forces may be running low on weaponry.
A pregnant woman whose suffering was captured in an image that showed the immense human cost of Russia's war in Ukraine has died along with her baby, AP reports.
The big picture: The woman was photographed by AP last Wednesday as rescue workers carried her on a stretcher following a Russian attack on a children's and maternity hospital in the port city of Mariupol. The woman's pale hand clutched her stomach as she lay on the stretcher in bloodied clothes.
Instagram is no longer available in Russia, according to internet monitoring service GlobalCheck, after the country last week said it planned to ban the social network.
The big picture: Russia's media monitoring agency Roskomnadzor announced last week that it planned to ban Instagram after Meta, Facebook and Instagram's parent company, loosened hate speech restrictions to allow for users to call for an end to the violence in Ukraine and for the deaths of Russian leaders.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said Monday that the prospect of the nuclear conflict is "within the realm of possibility" as Russia continues its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
What he's saying: "Raising the alert of Russian nuclear forces is a bone-chilling development. The prospect of nuclear conflict, once unthinkable, is now back within the realm of possibility," Guterres said.
Watching the horrors unfold in Ukraine has been debilitating — wanting to help but not having any tangible way to do so other than social media shows of support.
Driving the news: Alex Iskold, a New York City venture capitalist who immigrated from Ukraine in the early 1990s, has created a program whereby you can get money directly into the hands of needy Ukrainian families.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will address Congress virtually on Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer announced Monday.
The big picture: Last week, Congress passed a $1.5 trillion budget bill to fund the government that includes $13.6 billion in humanitarian and security assistance for Ukraine as Russia's unprovoked invasion of the country continues.
The corporate pullout from Russia happened faster than anyone could have imagined, drawing comparisons to the wave of company disinvestment in South Africa in the 1980s.
Driving the news: Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month, more than 300 global companies announced some kind of withdrawal from the country, according to the tally kept by management professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his team at Yale.
Viktor Zolotov, chief of the Russian National Guard and a close ally of President Vladimir Putin, said Sunday that Moscow's invasion of Ukraine has been slower than expected, according to Reuters.
Why it matters: Zolotov's comments are the strongest admission yet from a member of the Russian Security Council that the invasion has not gone according to plan.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine threatens to pull the rug out from under our previously pretty sweet economic recovery. It's kind of a Godfather 3 moment — just when you think you're out, they pull you back in.
Why it matters: We just went through a massive economic upheaval. The recovery is still fragile — supply chains aren't fully recovered, and inflation is at record highs. Now, add on the fallout from both the war itself and the crippling economic sanctions levied against Russia for its unprovoked attack.
The U.S. condemns a missile attack claimed by Iran on Erbil, the capital of Iraq's Kurdistan Region, and stands with Baghdad and other regional governments against threats from Tehran, national security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday.
The big picture: U.S. and local officials said there were no casualties from the attack at a compound near a new U.S. consulate building and residential areas. "We will support the Government of Iraq in holding Iran accountable, and we will support our partners throughout the Middle East in confronting similar threats from Iran," Sullivan in a statement.
Ukraine Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Sunday accused Russian forces of abducting a second Ukrainian mayor, Yevhen Matveyev, from the southern city of Dniprorudne.
State of play: The report comes days after Ukrainian officials said Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov was captured by Russian forces. Galina Danilchenko, Melitopol's new mayor in the Russian-occupied city, said in a video address Sunday that the region would start broadcasting "Russian TV channels," per CNN.
Pandemic restrictions in two of China's largest cities, Shenzhen and Shanghai, imposed Sunday have forced Apple suppliers including Foxconn to suspend production, per Nikkei Asia.
Why it matters: The seven-day lockdown of the key port city and southern tech powerhouse Shenzhen and the partial lockdown of financial hub Shanghai and other Chinese cities over COVID-19 spikes will exacerbate supply chain and inflation issues, per Axios' Dan Primack.
The Kremlin has asked China's government for military equipment and other assistance to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine, per multiple reports citing U.S. officials on Sunday.
What to watch: American officials said there were indications that Russia's military was running out of weaponry and one added that the U.S. was "preparing to warn its allies" due to signs that Beijing may be prepared to help Moscow, according to the Financial Times, which first reported the news.
