Berlin now has some hard decisions to make following years of dialogue and co-operation with Moscow.
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Shelling reportedly kills at least five in Kharkiv and air raid sirens are "near constant" in the east.

PM Denys Shmyhal says the city has not fallen to Russian forces because of the determined defence.

An 80km queue formed on the Polish border ahead of a deadline for Russian trucks to leave the EU.

There is ongoing unrest over a far-right group which burned a copy of the Quran, and planned to do so again.

Everything has changed in this town since the Russians came, and horrific memories will not easily be erased.

The Ukrainian city of Chernihiv was under constant attack until suddenly Russian forces withdrew.

Salah Abdeslam was allegedly part of an IS terror cell that killed 130 people in attacks across Paris in 2015.

PM Denys Shmyhal says the city has not fallen to Russian forces because of the determined defence.

An 80km queue formed on the Polish border ahead of a deadline for Russian trucks to leave the EU.

There is ongoing unrest over a far-right group which burned a copy of the Quran, and planned to do so again.
By Damien McGuinness
BBC News, Berlín
Dmytro Kuleba told CBS’s Face the Nation Russian troops have “decided to raze the city to the ground".
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Serhiivka, Ukraine
Speaking through a translator, the Pope calls for an end to the "flexing of muscle whilst people are suffering.''
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Scammers are using emotionally charged tricks in a bid to steal online donations.
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