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Britain's King Charles III has praised the “remarkable courage and resilience” of Ukrainians during a year of war.

In a message to mark Friday's first anniversary of Russia's invasion, the king said “the people of Ukraine have suffered unimaginably from an unprovoked full-scale attack on their nation”.

Charles said he had met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Buckingham Palace earlier this month to express his “personal support” for Ukraine's people.

The king, who took the throne in September after the death of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, said it was “heartening that the United Kingdom, along with its allies, is doing everything possible to help at this most difficult time''.

He added that he's hopeful the outpouring of solidarity from across the globe “may bring not only practical aid, but also strength from the knowledge that, together, we stand united”.

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The T-72 tank was put on display in Berlin's Unter den Linden boulevard, in front of the embassy.

The tank was brought to Berlin by a private group, which said that the Ukrainian defence ministry's military history museum loaned the vehicle and helped it with logistics. It says the vehicle was hit in the Kyiv region in the early stages of the war.

One of the organisers, Wieland Giebel of the Berlin Story group, said that the whole world recognise that many Germans stand behind Ukraine. Belgrade: Serbian police have prevented a group of antiwar activists from reaching the Russian embassy to presenting a skull-adorned cake in commemoration of the first anniversary of the invasion of Ukraine.

Activists left the cake soaked in red dye on the pavement near the embassy in central Belgrade. Activists also wanted to hand embassy staff a demand for Russian President Vladimir Putin to stand trial for genocide.

A traditional Slavic ally, Serbia has maintained friendly relations with Russia despite the invasion. While formally seeking European Union entry, Belgrade has refused to join Western sanctions designed to punish Moscow for the aggression.

Tallinn: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says Russian President Vladimir Putin is “preparing for more war” and that he wants a Europe in which Russia “can dictate what neighbours do”.

Stoltenberg made the remarks on Friday in the Estonian capital where he was joined by EU Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to commemorate the Baltic country's independence day.

Von der Leyen said Putin has failed to achieve any of his strategic goals and that Russia is becoming increasingly isolated, citing Thursday's UN General Assembly vote approving a non-binding resolution that calls for Russia to end hostilities in Ukraine and withdraw its forces.

Stoltenberg also said that he has invited Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to attend a NATO summit in Lithuania in July, expressing hope that the Ukrainian leader can attend in person.

NATO will hold a summit in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, July 11-13.

Berlin: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has thanked Germany for its support in the first year of Russia's invasion and said his country can “end Russian aggression this year”.

Zelenskyy spoke in a video message to a memorial event in Berlin on Friday led by President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and attended by Germany's top politicians and the Ukrainian ambassador.

Zelenskyy, who spoke through an interpreter, said that “now is the time when, with our courage and our weapons, we can restore peace and create a historically important safeguard against every aggression”.

Steinmeier led a minute of silence for the victims of the war. He said that “Germany is not at war, but this war concerns us … Russia's war of aggression has wrecked the European security order.” He pledged that Kyiv can rely on Germany.

The German parliament on Friday replaced one of the German flags atop its Reichstag building – which usually has three German flags and one European Union flag – with a Ukrainian flag. A Ukrainian flag also was raised outside the chancellery.

Warsaw: Poland's Defence Minister Mariusz Blaszczak says that “preventive barriers” are being put up along the country's borders with Russia and Belarus. Blaszczak posted on Twitter on Friday that the barriers were elements of a “strategy of defence and deterrence”.

Kyiv: Ukraine's presidential office says that Russian strikes in the last 23 hours have killed at least three civilians and wounded 19 others. The office said on Friday that intense fighting continued to rage around Bakhmut, Vuhledar and Avdiivka in the eastern Donetsk region, where two civilians were killed and seven others wounded..

Russian forces targeted 18 towns or villages in the Donetsk region with air and artillery strikes over the last 24 hours, including the city of Kramatorsk that hosts Ukrainian military headquarters for the region.

The governor of the neighbouring Luhansk region, Serhii Haidai, said that heavy fighting continued to rage around Kreminna, where the Russians briefly broke through Ukrainian defences before being pushed back by the Ukrainian forces.

Haidai said Russian forces were regrouping and bringing more personnel and weapons to the region after suffering heavy losses in unsuccessful attacks.

Russian attacks also targeted the town of Kupiansk and nearby villages in the northeastern Kharkiv region, where seven people were wounded At least one civilian was killed and three others wounded by the Russian attacks in the southern Kherson region.

In the city of Kherson, Russian artillery struck the city hospital, but no one was injured. Moscow: A senior Russian official says Moscow should capture as much Ukrainian territory as possible to secure a stable peace.

Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia's Security Council chaired by President Vladimir Putin, said on Friday that if Russia fails to fully defeat Ukraine, an eventual peace agreement will be unstable and set the stage for hostilities to erupt again in the future.

Medvedev charged that the US would call the shots in future peace talks, aiming to “weaken Russia as much as possible”.

He argued on his messaging app channel that Russia should “push threats ... as far away as possible, even if it were the border of Poland”.

Medvedev, who served as Russian president in 2008-2012 when Putin needed to shift into the prime minister's job because of term limits, has become one of the most hawkish members of Putin's entourage.

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