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Meanwhile, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Friday and offered a stepped-up training for Ukrainian forces.
After holding talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the leaders signalled that Ukraine should be granted European Union candidate status.
Zelenskyy's criticism of the West has mounted in recent days as the European Union moves slowly towards a possible Russian oil embargo and as thousands of Russian forces try to encircle two key eastern cities of Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk.
The European Union has made it mandatory for non-EU citizens to get a transit Schengen visa to fly to the UK on transit flights operated by its airlines as the UK is no longer part of the union, post Brexit.
Zelenskiy urged NATO members to impose a no fly zone to stop the Russian air force, saying this would be a preventative measure and not meant to drag the alliance into war with Russia.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy has posted photos of himself signing the application, and his office says the paperwork is on its way to Brussels, where the 27-nation EU is headquartered.
A study had described an unusual variant of Guillain-Barre syndrome characterised by prominent facial weakness in seven cases from a regional medical center in Kerala.
At 3.18 am on Wednesday, Air India dreamliner (AI 150) from London landed at Cochin with 221 passengers. Later at 5.57 am, the flight AI 149 departed for Heathrow with 232 passengers on board.
Josep Borrell outlined the EU's stance in a statement after an emergency meeting of European Union foreign ministers to discuss the Taliban's quick seizure of the Afghan capital Kabul.
The European Commission has proposed 13 legislative proposals, its biggest climate package yet, to cut planet-warming emissions.