MS Publisher on Windows 11 crashing when I try to open any .pub file

Question 1

Suddenly today I am unable to open .pub in MS Publisher 2016. I used two computers, which are critical identical and I have the same problem with both of them. The error log is shown below. Everything worked fine yesterday. Is this an update problem?

Description:

Faulting Application Path:  C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office16\MSPUB.EXE

Problem signature
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name:   MSPUB.EXE
Application Version:    16.0.5460.1000
Application Timestamp:  668d3b23
Fault Module Name:  mso20win32client.dll
Fault Module Version:   16.0.5495.1002
Fault Module Timestamp: 67dea514
Exception Offset:   000b3eb0
Exception Code: c0000409
Exception Data: 00000000
OS Version: 10.0.26100.2.0.0.256.48
Locale ID:  2057
Additional Information 1:   0e11
Additional Information 2:   0e1105231d4e0b1a0dabf50bbe37324b
Additional Information 3:   75ed
Additional Information 4:   75ed6940b3789d97b5551a2e8a45ef68

Extra information about the problem
Bucket ID:  f7f2c2a336d8c80f4f35625fff4cdc90 (2248811753386073232)

Question 2

Same issue here, I've removed Windows update KB5002878, and crash is gone