US backs Nordic NATO bids, Ukraine tries Russian for war crime

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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) – US President Joe Biden will host the leaders of Finland and Sweden on Thursday to discuss their NATO membership bids, while Ukraine said no military option was left to rescue the soldiers still inside a steel plant besieged by Russian forces. Moscow’s troops have been accused of widespread atrocities against civilians during their devastating campaign, and Ukraine began its first war crimes trial of the conflict on Wednesday with a Russian soldier pleading guilty. The brutality of the invasion that began on February 24 shook Sweden and Finland, and the neighbours — afte…

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