A 55-year-old man in Thessaloniki has been fined €270,000 for abandoning nine kittens in an isolated area of the Kalamaria district — €30,000 per animal under Greece's revised animal welfare law — in one of the country's largest penalties of its kind, while prosecutors examine the case and the man says the fine exceeds everything he has earned in his lifetime.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has warned that the only route to a durable peace in Ukraine is ensuring Russian President Vladimir Putin understands he cannot achieve his goals militarily, telling CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour that any settlement must include binding guarantees that Russia will not target Ukraine again.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received His Beatitude Patriarch Theophilos III of Jerusalem at the Maximos Mansion today.