Shea Donovan

"Children are hearing explosions, and they are being asked to flee their homes with just the clothes on their backs," Save the Children told Newsweek.

Ukraine is known as 'Europe's breadbasket,' but the war has turned the country 'from a breadbasket to a bread line' for millions of its people.

"I was 11...playing a tournament in Pilsen. In the morning [my father] called the house and said, "Don't go outside. Russian tanks are outside." So of course we went outside, yelled and screamed and threw rocks.

"The world right now is more focused on Russian aggressions in Ukraine than on Taliban brutalities in Afghanistan," the Wilson Center told Newsweek.

"If there was a choice of whose life to leave, and who will have to die," a young mother said, "I would choose death for myself and life for my son."

"And yet there is a Jew in power who came to the presidency through a free and competitive election," Andrei Kolesnikov of the Carnegie Moscow Center told Newsweek.

"We deplore Russia's military action that violates the territorial integrity of Ukraine and endangers its people," ExxonMobil said in a statement Tuesday.

"We have sympathy for the Ukrainians, perhaps more than other countries," said a Georgian resident. "We've experienced Russia's barbaric aggression on our soil."

On Monday, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu warned all countries not to bring warships through the straits that provide access to the Black Sea.

"Human Rights Watch is increasingly concerned that revenge killings condoned by senior Taliban leaders are now becoming the basis for a deliberate policy to seek out and execute targeted former government's security officials and others."

"Today [Friday] I woke up at 6 a.m. to the sound of explosions," a Ukrainian resident told Newsweek. "Rivne airport was hit [by a Russian] air strike."

Satellite images from space technology company Maxar Technologies reveal surgical airstrikes that appear designed to preserve key military assets.

"For us, the genocide doesn't stop in the two to three weeks of the Olympic Games," Zumretay Arkin, an ethnic Uyghur Muslim, told CBS News.

"The Chinese ships are armed," Hitoshi Nakama, an Okinawan councilor-turned-fisherman, told JAPAN Forward. "The patrol vessels have cannons mounted on the decks."

Newsweek has charted out China's global network of bilateral partnerships with more than 100 countries.

"Trump has a kind of talent for knowing how to go right up to the line," Professor Chris Rasmussen of Fairleigh Dickinson University said. "He seems to somehow know where it is and how to stay just shy of it, maintaining plausible deniability."

"We know this — if Russia wants, it will start the war. But we are a different country now, not like 2014. The army is way stronger right now. The shooting range is booked, and it's been booked for the last month and a half. Ukrainians want to know how to defend themselves better than before."

"It is our own ocean, but instead of catching fish, we are too afraid to go back there because somebody might attack us," Dionesio Cabacungan, a fisherman at Sisiman Port, Philippines, told RadioFreeAsia. "They tried to shoot at us. Three times they shot."