France and Germany want to achieve an early ceasefire in Ukraine that will allow the negotiations between Kyiv and Moscow.

In Ukraine, a school in the eastern Ukrainian village at Bilohorivka turned to rubbles following heavy bombing by Russian troops. 

President Putin has said that the intervention in Ukraine was necessary as the West was creating threats to Russia's borders.

Amid continue violence in Sri Lanka, Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa resigned as his loyalists went on rampage on Monday.

John Lee oversaw the sometimes violent crackdowns on pro-democracy protestors in 2019 in Hong Kong.

In Sri Lanka, emergency was declared after the crippling strike and protest over the external debt for the second time in five weeks.