Oil field services companyBaker Hughes became the latest American oil company to walk back its planned investments in Russia, the company announced on Saturday.
Driving the news: Baker Hughes' announcement came a day after its rivals, Halliburton Co. and Schlumberger, took similar steps in response to U.S. sanctions on Russia, ABC News reports.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warned on Saturday that continuing its invasion would cost Russia for "generations," AP reports.
Driving the news: Zelensky said Russian President Vladimir Putin is deliberately creating "a humanitarian catastrophe," and urged Putin once again to meet with him to prevent more deaths, per AP.
Why it matters: An estimated 1.5 million children have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, UNICEF said in a statement Saturday. Improving coordination and screening at border crossings could identify children separated from their families before traffickers can take advantage of them.
China's vice foreign minister on Saturday blamed NATO for the war in Ukraine and criticized the West's sanctions against Russia, AP reports.
Driving the news: Le Yucheng speaking at a conference in Beijing called NATO a "Cold War vestige," warning that its expansion could cause "repercussions too dreadful to contemplate," per AP.
Facing an Omicron-fueled outbreak, China reported its first two coronavirus deaths since January 2021, according to the Associated Press.
Why it matters: The deaths of two elderly patients in the Jilin province bring the country’s official death toll since the start of the pandemic to 4,638. They come as the province, where leaders have imposed a travel ban, is wrestling with community transmission driven by the highly contagious variant.
A NATO training exercise on Friday turned deadly for four American service members when their aircraft crashed in Norway, Norwegian police confirmed.
Driving the news: The four service members were aboard a U.S. military plane on the way to a peninsula in the Norwegian Sea when the crash happened near the town of Bodo. The training was unrelated to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, officials said.
Latin American conductors of classical music, along with opera singers, are making it big in an industry that has been mostly white and European since its beginnings.
Driving the news: Colombian Lina González-Granados was recently named the resident conductor for the Los Angeles Opera, becoming the first Latina to get a major conducting post in one of the biggest U.S. opera companies.
Russian missiles that struck a residential neighborhood in Kyiv on Friday morning killed at least one person and injured 19, including four children, Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
The big picture: The strikes show that Russian forces are becoming increasingly indiscriminate in their attacks as they press on almost one month into the unprovoked invasion.
