France has urged its nationals in Mali to leave “as soon as possible” following coordinated attacks at the weekend, including in the capital Bamako.
Mr Putin also questioned Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s legitimacy to conduct negotiations.
Mayor Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram on Monday that Russia has once again launched heavy air attacks on Ukraine, with 19 people injured in the large city of Kharkiv in the east of the country
The men were said to have paid smugglers the equivalent of more than $3,600 each.
The new financial support is subject to the approval of the EU’s 27 member states and the European Parliament.
Russian authorities said Tuesday that fighting continued in several localities in the Russian border region of Belgorod near Ukraine.
The latest move came after he was only released from solitary confinement on Friday.
The White House published a public schedule for Monday on Sunday evening that misrepresented the president’s actual whereabouts as being in Washington.
Mr Zelensky stressed that a meeting with Mr Putin made no sense.
Russia is promising to reoccupy Ukraine’s recently liberated areas in Kyiv’s swift counteroffensive, claiming they will belong to Russia “forever.”
