President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. held a secure video call today with President Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Olaf Scholz of Germany, and Prime Minister Boris Johnson of the United Kingdom.

The leaders affirmed their determination to continue raising the costs on Russia for its unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine.

So far, there is no safe route to take to ensure the replacement of workers at the Chernobyl-occupied Chernobyl nuclear power plant. This was stated during a TV bridge by the mayor of Slavutich - Yuri Fomichev.

„Since February 24, the shift has not returned to Slavutic. They are there, on the site itself, and there is no safe corridor for us to change these people“, Fomoichev said.

A fire broke out on the site of a Ukrainian nuclear power plant after a Russian attack last night. According to information from the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Rafael Mariano Grossi, a training centre of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, located in the immediate vicinity of the reactors, was hit by a projectile.

Kazakhstan will reorient cargoes located on the territory of Russia to Latvian ports, the Kazakh Ministry of Industry and Infrastructural Development reports.

The project company ICGB, responsible for construction of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) will be licensed as a transmission system operator (INGS Management license) in Greece, ICGB’s Executive Officer on the Bulgarian side Teodora Georgieva said in an exclusive interview with Trend.

Iranian Minister of Petroleum Javad Owji said the country would readily enhance its crude oil output to help stabilize the global market.

Speaking on Wednesday, March 2, following the 26th ministerial meeting of the OPEC+ (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its allies), Mr. Owji talked about the decisions of the meeting.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China - Wang Yi - assured the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine - Dmitry Kuleba of "China's readiness to make all [necessary] efforts to end the war on Ukrainian soil through diplomatic channels, including as permanent member of the UN Security Council". This was stated by Wang Yi during a telephone conversation with Kuleba, held on March 1, 2022. The news was spread by the press center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine on Facebook.

Russian aggression in Ukraine has pushed the Finnish public closer than ever to NATO.

Finnish political parties will gather on Tuesday to discuss Russia’s attack on Ukraine and Finland’s role in Europe’s new power balance. Finland’s potential NATO membership will also be on the table, Prime Minister Sanna Marin told reporters Monday.

EU energy ministers will discuss the possibility of emergency synchronisation of the Ukraine’s power grid with the European grid, Trend quoted European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson as saying.

Azerbaijan is most important trading partner for Germany in South Caucasus, Germany helping Azerbaijani economy to diversify. In 30 years Azerbaijan came closer to EU, head of the German Foreign Ministry's Office for Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia Matthias Luttenberg wrote on his Twitter page.