At a ceremony on Kyiv’s St Sophia Square, a visibly emotional President Volodymyr Zelenskiy bestowed medals on soldiers, one on crutches, and the mother of one killed.

For the first time since 1989, the weather service issued a blizzard warning for Southern California mountains that runs through Saturday.

The teacher was given emergency aid at the scene, but Bayonne prosecutor Jerome Bourrier told AFP she died of her wounds.

“The countries most burdened by debt and lack of access to financing are also being battered by multiple other crises

Biden’s comments came as he was wrapping up a whirlwind, four-day visit to Poland and Ukraine with talks with leaders from the Bucharest Nine.

“Digital platforms have changed the way we connect and face the world, the way we face each other,” UNESCO director general Audrey Azoulay said in opening remarks.

“Currently, the incident has caused the deaths of two people and injured six, with 53 missing,” CCTV said in a social media post.

The storm will make its way toward the East Coast later in the week. Places that don’t get snow may get dangerous amounts of ice.

Chinese weapons supplies to Russia would risk a potential escalation of the Ukraine war.

Many worry Putin could move to take military action against them next if he’s successful in Ukraine.

Between 2020 and 2021, at least 700 pieces were returned to 14 countries, including Cambodia, Egypt, Greece, India, Iraq, Italy and Pakistan.

“Anti-Russian sanctions are just a means. But the aim is to make our citizens suffer,” the 70-year-old leader said.

Biden opens the five-day tour in Namibia on Wednesday and will meet the first ladies of both countries.

He added that Kyiv held talks with the West about weapons supplies before the “special military operation” began.

The 6.4 magnitude quake was felt in Syria, Jordan, Cyprus, Israel and as far away as Egypt, and followed by a second, magnitude 5.8 temblor.

It has already provided Ukraine with financial support worth $600 million along with hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of emergency humanitarian assistance

Air raid sirens blared across the Ukrainian capital as Biden visited Kyiv but there were no reports of Russian missiles or air strikes.

TV footage showed houses flooded with only the roof visible. Residents are using small boats to carry items and people to higher positions.

Blinken told CBS that China was “considering providing lethal support” ranging “from ammunition to the weapons themselves.”

Aid has been slow to reach Syria’s rebel-held areas since the February 6 quake killed a combined total of more than 44,000 people across Turkey and Syria.