On #TheUpdate this Monday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that the country could declare neutrality and offer security guarantees to Russia to secure "peace without delay" in talks expected to resume tomorrow. Zelenskyy says that only a face-to-face meeting with Putin could end the war. Meanwhile, in a welding shop in the western city of Lviv, workers are adding steel plates and bars to support a machine gun to a donated pickup truck so a volunteer can drive it to the front. One welder says that "our victory depends on us." 🇺🇦🇷🇺👨🏽‍🏭🚚

Locally, Mayor Adams and city officials are planning to remove the makeshift shelters set up by homeless people on city streets, mirroring the similar efforts in other liberal metropolises that had previously tolerated the encampments. In Brooklyn, the NYPD says that a man who shot and wounded a 3-year-old girl while she was walking with her father outside a day care had opened fire at another man who was putting his 2-year-old son in the back seat of a car. She remains hospitalized and is expected to survive. This really reminded us of the world of professional wrestling. Was it a work? Or was it a shoot? Will Smith marches in stage and smacked presenter Chris Rock during last night's Oscars after Rock made a joke about the appareance of Smith's wife, Jada Pinkett Smith.

And this is dire news for guys who regularly enjoy adult entertainment. A new study has found that frequent porn viewing can have disastrous effects on men's sex lives- leaving them with low self-esteem, erectile disfunction, and an ability to satisfy their lovers. 👨🏽‍💻😈💦📉

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. We'll tell you about how Ukrainian students overseas are offering about relatives and their future. And also, without Russia, science is going solo on the world's woes and dreans. 🇺🇦🇷🇺👨🏽‍🔬🗺️

We have the latest details (at the time of recording Saturday) on the Russian war in Ukraine.

We'll tell you about how the northern Ukranian city of Chernihiv is fearing becoming the next Mariupol. Also, a Ukranian fashion brand in the Russian-occupied Kyiv suburb of Bucha is picking up and fleeing. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🏃🏽‍♂️👗

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukrainian officials say that the death toll from a strike in the besieged port city of Mariupol is in the hundreds- the deadliest baingle attack since Russia's war started a month ago. The public outcry for war crimes prosecutions against Russian President Vladimir Putin and top Kremlin officials grows louder with every attack. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Ukrainians to keep up their resistance, insisting that his nation is "getting closer to victory" each day. President Biden was in Poland to pay tribute to a country that took in more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees who filed since the invasion began. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱

We'll also try to answer a key question: How would those accused of Ukrainian war crimes be prosecuted? ⚖️

On #TheUpdate this Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on his people to keep up their resistance to Russia's invading forces, saying "every minute determines our fate, our future, whether we will live." During his nightly video address to his people, Zelenskyy said that "With every day of our defense, we're getting closer to the peace that we need so much. We are getting closer to victory." Meanwhile, Pope Francis is presiding over a special prayer for peace in Ukraine that harks back to a century-old apocalyptic prophecy about peace and Russia. The prophecy was sparked by purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🛐🇵🇹

Locally, less than 24 hours after he made the announcement that athletes and performers could be exempt from the city's vaccine mandate, Police and the other unions are blasting Mayor Adams for seemingly treating the wealthy and famous differently. As New York inches toward launching a retail marijuana market, sales are flourishing in some Native American territory in the state.

In Minneapolis, teachers have reached a tentative agreement to end a more than two-week strike over pay and other issues that idles some 29,000 students and around 4,500 educators and staff in one of Minnesota's largest school districts. And is your relationship dead with no hope of recovery? A psychologist has revealed five signs that your bond is over and the two of you should move on. 👩‍❤️‍👨💔

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Ukraine's cities are under relentless Russian fire as NATO leaders are meeting in Brussels. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the alliance to provide “effective and unrestricted” support to his country, including planes, tanks, rockets and other military equipment. Western leaders pledged sanctions and more humanitarian aid, but not as much military assistance as Zelenskyy wants. On Thursday, Ukraine officials said Russian forces have taken thousands of Ukrainians to Russia against their will, but Russia countered that, saying it's evacuating civilians who want to go to Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺

We'll also explain how the U.S and its allies can freeze Russian gold. 🥇

On #TheUpdate this Thursday, Ukraine's cities are standing under relentless Russian fire as NATO leaders are huddling in Brussels and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged then to provide "effective and unrestricted" support to his country. Russian forces have brought death and destruction to a large swath of Ukraine over the past four weeks, but they appear to have stalled in many places in the face of fiercer-than-expected Ukrainian resistance. Meanwhile, countries from Turkey to Thailand, Egypt and Cuba are bracing for the loss of Russian and Ukrainian tourists just as their travel sectors were looking to bounce back from the coronavirus pandemic. 🇺🇦🇷🇺

Locally, it feels like justice for Kyrie Irving. Mayor Adams will announce that he's exempting athletes and performers from the city's vaccine mandate for private workers. It'll be effective immediately. A prosecutor who had led a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump before quitting last month said in his resignation letter that he believes the former president is "guilty of numerous felony violations." We're remembering Madeleine Albright, a child refugee from Nazi- and then Soviet-dominated Eastern Europe who rose to become the first female secretary of state. She died of cancer at the age of 84. And would you pay a playboy model to try and "honeytrap" your husband? Carolina Lekker is making a fortune off suspicious women who pay her up to $2,000 to slide into their partner's DMs to see if they'll be up for an affair. 👙💵👩‍❤️‍👨

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!