Russia-Ukraine latest news: First stage of Kyiv's EU membership to begin 'within weeks', bloc chief says

🇺🇦 Ursula von der Leyen handed Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky with the official questionnaire to kick off its long-sought membership of the European Union on Friday. 📸 Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Shutterstock Read more here ⬇️

Russia said on Friday it was shutting down the local offices of more than a dozen international organisations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Fifteen organisations have been taken off Russia;&#x0027s registry of international organisations and foreign NGOs due to 'violations of the current legislation of the Russian Federation,' the justice ministry said in a statement without providing further details.

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