It's a day of high-level meetings, with an extraordinary NATO summit taking place in Brussels, as well as meetings of EU leaders and the G-7.
in invading Ukraine, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said ahead of an extraordinary meeting of the transatlantic military alliance in Brussels.
Stoltenberg said NATO has increased its military presence in the eastern part of the alliance and today will "address the need for a reset of our deterrence and defense in the longer term." The Institute of International Finance has said it expects Russia's economy to contract by 15% in 2022, driven by both official sanctions and the "self-sanctioning" of foreign companies that have pulled out of Russia.
There are three key meetings ahead with an extraordinary NATO summit taking place in Brussels, as well as meetings of EU leaders and the Group of Seven . Russian forces are beginning to set up defensive positions about 10 to 12 miles away from Kyiv's city center, according to a senior U.S. Defense official.
A Makariv residential building destroyed by Russian shelling is shown in an image taken March 16, 2022. The town near Kyiv is the scene of more fighting this week.Ukrainian defenders in the vicinity of Kyiv are mounting successful counterattacks near the capital and appear to be retaking lost ground, the British Defence Ministry said Wednesday night, though reports from the area partially contradicted those claims.
"It is likely that successful counter attacks by Ukraine will disrupt the ability of Russian forces to reorganise and resume their own offensive towards Kyiv," the Defence Ministry said.A Russian flag flies next to the US embassy building in Moscow on December 7, 2021.The Kremlin has informed U.S. officials that more American diplomats will be ordered to leave Russia, a State Department spokesman said.
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