* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says it will cost his country at least $600 billion to rebuild what has been destroyed during the Russian invasion.
* Russia has been losing valuable military equipment, and replacements are hard to come by. One key reason: Sanctions that are strangling its military production lines by stopping the flow of microchips.
* The EU has plans to sanction the Russian Orthodox Church leader Patriarch Kirill, a Putin supporter and leading advocate of the Ukraine invasion. What would Jesus say?
* Roughly one third of the tourists arriving in Cuba last year were from Russia. The war in Ukraine deflated that boom.