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• Commitment comes at 'coalition of willing' gathering • Security protocols 'as strong as anyone has ever seen,' Witkoff says • Guarantees would enter into force after ceasefire • Question mark hangs over Russian response The United States for the first time on Tuesday backed a broad coalition of Ukraine's allies vowing to provide security guarantees that leaders said would include binding commitments to support the country if Russia attacks again. The pledge came at a summit in Paris of the "coalition of the willing" of mainly European nations to firm up guarantees to reassure Kyiv in the event of...

In an effort to preserve the families of those who may perish or be injured in armed conflict, the Russian government is taking steps to supply free access to sperm cryobanks for troops called up to fight in Ukraine. Families called up for military service as part of partial mobilization will receive a free quota for infertility treatment and storage of biomaterial in a cryobank, Igor Trunov, president of the Russian Union of Lawyers public organization, told TASS on Wednesday. "We received a response to my appeal to the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation "On the creation...