Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a summit (Politico) with envoys from more than forty countries to call for the reclamation of Russia-annexed Crimea. European Council President Charles Michel spoke at the event. French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel did not attend.
This timeline looks at Ukraine’s post-independence struggles.
Europe: A study by scientists at the World Weather Attribution project, which uses peer-reviewed research methods to evaluate climate change’s impact on extreme weather events, found that human-caused climate change increased the likelihood and intensity (Axios) of the heavy rains that caused deadly floods in Europe last month.
