A recent lull in fighting in Bakhmut has been down to poor weather and exhaustion, Western officials said.
The vote follows months of stalling that saw Turkey demand certain concessions from Finland and its neighbor Sweden.
Russian authorities claimed WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was conducting espionage. The newspaper vehmently denied the charge.
The West needs to be vigilant when it comes to potential support for Russia from China, Europe’s top diplomat said.
“Ukraine can lose this war,” Ian Bremmer told CNBC at the Munich Security Conference Friday, but Russia can’t win at a geopolitical level.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said China is closely watching Russia’s success in Ukraine, with the war’s outcome likely to have major reverberations in Asia-Pacific.
A Ukrainian victory in the war with Russia would result in the “dissolution of the Russian empire,” billionaire fund manager George Soros told the Munich Security Conference.