“Behind the scenes, it’s full-scale panic. People are passing around legal memos, PDFs are flying back and forth on WhatsApp, trying to figure out what are the options? How can you replace Biden? There is a big conversation happening right now about how this happens – not whether," former Obama administration official Van Jones told CNN.

“There's what I call a crisis in confidence in Europe. That is, ordinary people no longer have faith in their governments to do the right thing. They have little faith in them,” he explains, adding that “Without the resolution of the Ukraine crisis and without Russia returning to its European role we're going to have more of this - a lack of confidence in the leadership.”

“In domestic fiscal and financial policies, most EU leaders are seen to implement measures and programmes dictated from above and often not in the interest of the respective countries or of Europe as a whole,” he notes.

“In any event, the EU may not survive in its present form and NATO will also have to change its approach and goals,” the analyst adds.

"Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia will investigate another crime of Ukraine's armed formations ... In addition, the media is spreading information about the crime against a wounded Russian prisoner of war, who was shot in the head. Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia will establish in detail the circumstances of what happened and what was voiced in the public space, the actions of all those involved will be assessed under criminal law," the committee said on Telegram.