MAILONLINE LIVEBLOG: Fears are growing Russia could intensify bombing on the Ukrainian capital with a 40-mile convoy of tanks and other military vehicles amassed on its outskirts.

Volodymyr Zelensky, a symbol of Ukrainian defiance and heroism, this morning warned that Russia is 'trying to erase Ukraine' as Putin's forces renewed their attacks across the country.

Jade Fitzpatrick, 26, was allegedly spotted hugging and kissing the teenage boy, 17, who lived at the residential care home where she worked in Wrexham, North Wales.

Footage from Kyiv station showed hundreds of people, some with young children, trying to cram onto an already packed train amid fears that the city could soon be turned into a war zone.

The bank has lost 97% of its value on its London listing in the past fortnight and has told shareholders that significant 'cash outflows' have damaged the business outside Russia.

Despite official action only being scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday, passengers were warned to expect 'severe disruption each morning, with services improving by late morning'.

Experts are urging customers to keep an eye out for competitive fixed deals amid fears the Russian-Ukraine conflict could drive prices higher.

The intercepted radio messages indicate that troops are refusing to obey central command orders to shell Ukrainian towns. Pictured: A captured Russian soldier.

The body of Valerie Freer, 68, pictured, was discovered at the bungalow she shared with husband Derek, 72, in the village of Whittington, Staffordshire, on February 24.

EXCLUSIVE: Today I can disclose details of a bold, but quietly implemented, new strategy, which will see Kate become the most publicly prominent female in the Royal Family, writes DAN WOOTTON.

Vladimir Putin likes to tell a story about how, as a boy from in Leningrad (now St Petersburg), he used to hunt and kill rats in the basement of the flats they lived in, writes MARK ALMOND.

Analysts claim Abramovich transferred his shares in Evraz, the Russian steelmaking giant, directly to himself from an offshore company on February 16, eight days before the Ukraine invasion.

Giving a speech in Estonia today, Prime Minister warned Britons wanting to join Ukraine in their war with Russia that they could be breaking UK laws by taking part in the fighting.

The 27-year-old revealed that she decided she could make more of an impact by playing tennis than boycotting the event. 'All the prize money that I´m going to earn is going to be for the Ukrainian army.'

All-out financial war has been declared on Russia after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine shocked the world - and its stock markets.

According to photographs shared on Tuesday by opposition politician Ilya Yashin, children are among those that have been snatched by officers in anti-war protests in Russia.

Biden, at 79 the oldest man ever elected to the presidency in the United States, was speaking about the ongoing Russian invasion when he erred.

Oleksiy Danilov, Ukraine's Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council said during a televised address today that the unit 'which came to kill our President, was eliminated'.

Roman Abramovich is said to be looking to offload his Kensington Palace Gardens mansion and a three-storey penthouse at Chelsea Waterfront as the threat of sanctions looms.

The Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority said politicians' salaries will go up from £81,932 to £84,144 and MPs will receive £2,212 more for the year from 1 April 2022.

Alan Moher, 57, of Salford, Manchester, separated from his former wife Caroline in 2016 after 21 years together and the couple later divorced in the Family Court in 2019.

Will Quince said the issue of trans pupils accessing single-sex spaces in education settings is 'a bit of a minefield'.

An overwhelming 95 per cent of people find reading older novels and plays such as Tolstoy's War and Peace hard work, a poll has found. Many said they bluff up their reading lists to impress others.

Alexander Lukashenko, dictatorial ruler of Belarus, stood in front of a large map apparently detailing Russia's attack plan for Ukraine as he addressed his security council today.

Mandatory vaccination for health and social care workers will be scrapped in a fortnight following a Government U-turn, as Health Secretary Sajid Javed said it was 'no longer proportionate'.

A $5 million research lab is being created in Melbourne to develop technology to bring the Tasmanian tiger back to life.

A single bone found in a quarry of the city of Blagoveshchensk in far eastern Russia was analysed by a team of experts from Queen's University Belfast.

An international team of scientists led by researchers in London have presented the results of two experiments that could link the makeup of gut bacteria to Alzheimer's disease.

Bob Seely (pictured) told said the UK legal system had been corrupted by money from kleptocrats. He accused lawyers of working on behalf of oligarchs to silence the Press.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has raised fears over the mental stability of President Vladimir Putin. If he is toppled from within his inner circle, who could replace him as Russia's premier.

Prince of Wales will formally present the legal document which entitles the change of status, the Letters Patent, to Southend's mayor, Margaret Borton, at a council meeting.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge both tried their hand at baking during their visit to Wales to mark St David's Day, with Kate teasing Prince William over his efforts in the kitchen.

The former MP's appearance on The Diary of a CEO podcast earlier this week has gone down a storm, with social media users left equal parts horrified and in tears of laughter.

James Clark, 56, former chief drum and pipes instructor in the Army, (Pictured) was removed from the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) care register on Sunday

David Hope (pictured), now 74, 'systematically' sexually abused the boy, who was under the age of 10, and constantly made threats to stop him from speaking out in the 1980s.

Border Force detained at least seven boats and 150 people trying to cross the English Channel today - with several small children among those spotted at the Port of Dover.

Offers are now being prepared to reach the Abramovich, who has owned the club since 2003, by the end of the week as the threat of Government sanctions loom over him.

The 79-year-old lost £2 million in assets after gigs including his Glastonbury headline slot were cancelled because of the pandemic.

The visibly annoyed Chelsea boss was taking questions ahead of his side's FA Cup clash with Luton but was confronted a number of times on the ongoing war between Ukraine and Russia.

Chelsy Davy, 36, gave birth to her first baby in January with her partner Sam Cutmore-Scott, 37, a successful hotelier, who was in the year above Harry at Eton College.

The 16-year-old girl, who cannot be identified due to her age, was allegedly caught with a bomb-making video and instructions on how to build a homemade gun using a 3D printer.

A CCTV video played in court today showed Derlarno Samuels, 17, being stabbed in the street in Smethwick before seeking refuge in a Polish supermarket on May 1

Around 10,000 members of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) have walked out for 24 hours today - and will do so again on Thursday - in a row over jobs, pensions and conditions.

A 48-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder after mother-of-three Clair Ablewhite was found stabbed to death in her Colston Bassett home in has been released under investigation.

Rail union bosses who today brought London's tube network to a standstill rake in a combined total of £327,427 in salary and benefits a year - including a car.

Former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky claimed the Russian tyrant 'nowadays lives in his own world' and insisted that he really believed he would be received in Ukraine with flowers.

A racist football fan from Hertfordshire who sent two tweets featuring monkey and banana emojis to Rio Ferdinand has been handed a 12-week suspended sentence.

Ministers accept Britain's sanctions regime will have some blowback for domestic consumers and companies, while experts are concerned about higher prices for commodities.

'Ex-army' Gary Adam, 35, (pictured), from Callander, Scotland, sexually assaulted two women, one of whom he told he would 'snap like a twig'. He is facing up to five years in jail.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in what it called a special operation to demilitarise and 'denazify' the country - a justification dismissed by Kyiv and the West as propaganda.

The concert hall is designed to look like a 'mysterious boulder that had fallen into place'. It faces out on a Ming Dynasty-era section of the Great Wall.

Neil, who left the Corporation for rival start-up GB News before quitting the new station over its 'anti-woke' tone, said the BBC should be open-minded about changes to its model.

Margaret Dick, a resident of the Isle of Wight, is known to have cut herself off from society following her failed marriage and lived in a loft with a trap door.

Prince William and Kate were thanked this morning by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife after the royals said they stood with them in their fight.

Andrea Wilkinson, 51, created the hump using rocks from a dry stone wall following a public backlash over speeding traffic in the village of Edgworth, near Bolton, Greater Manchester.

She was said to have 'disappeared into thin air' after becoming the only woman on the National Crime Agency's Most Wanted List. Last night she was said to be in prison near Madrid.

The teacher at the Church of England All Saints Academy in Dunstable, near Luton, has now been suspended after Year 10 pupils were shown the image on Friday.

The SNP's Michelle Thomson drew a link between Kyiv's emergency attempt to join the European Union and her party's hopes of rejoining the bloc if they break up the UK.

Andrew Gillon, 59, of North Lanarkshire, Scotland, had entered the Postcode Lottery last year, before falling down the stairs at a friend's house party on New Year's Eve.

For the young cancer patients, their treatments have been interrupted after they were moved to the basement of a children's hospital in Ukrainian capital Kyiv as a result of Russian bombs.

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Dragons star Jack de Belin faced two rape trials but had the charges against him dropped last year.

Biden started his first State of the Union Tuesday by accusing Vladimir Putin of 'underestimating' western allies and the Ukrainian people and closing off U.S. air space to all Russian flights. 

Sydney residents have been told to prepare for a 'tough night' ahead as thousands are ordered to evacuate from an expanding list of locations after a massive 'rain bomb' exploded over the state.

Eighteen per cent said they did not trust Putin, down from 29 per cent on February 20, while 11 per cent 'found it difficult' to answer the question, according to a Public Opinion Foundation poll.

Benard Iyegudu, 40, says he was left permanently disabled after being made to lie on wet and cold ground during a 'command leadership course' at Longmoor, in Hampshire, in November 2018.

TOM RAWSTORNE:For more than half a century, chalet No.14 provided the backdrop to the lives of Cate Steel and her family.

Ian Umney, 28, from Manchester, reunited with wife Nelia, 26, and their two-year-old son Jonathan in Nikopol, Ukraine, yesterday. Now he says he will fight against the Russian army.

HMRC contacted businesses via email to ask them to point out to employees that the £12billion Tory manifesto-busting annual tax raid is 'for the NHS'.

In a round of interviews, Ben Wallace flatly rejected suggestions that NATO should close down airspace - saying it would risk a direct conflict with Moscow.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: It would be easy for Boris Johnson and his fellow leaders to be swept up in the emotion and fury of the moment. With each passing day, Putin's savagery becomes worse.

On a multitude of fronts - from the economic to the political - the blowback from Russia's military adventures in Ukraine are now being felt in Moscow, writes OWEN MATTHEWS in the city.

These were the heart-rending scenes at a small Polish train station this evening as Ukrainian refugees escaped the horrors of Vladimir Putin's attempt to wipe their country off the map.

Hertfordshire Police said Miley, 13, who is from Broxbourne, has not been seen since Tuesday morning and are asking for help in finding her.

PC Mark Crompton and PC Ben Pitelen had been on duty for Hertfordshire Constabulary when they went to the home of the woman in January 2013.

IAN BIRRELL: The Russian-speaking city in north-eastern Ukraine has suffered six days of bombardment with a terrifying hail of missiles and shells raining down on the civilian infrastructure.

Matilda 'Tilly' Rosewarne died on February 16 after enduring more than seven years' of relentless abuse at the hands of children and teenagers in Bathurst, west of Sydney.

Peak Scientific pledged an astonishing sum of £250,000 as Dame Judi Dench and Sir Michael Palin became the latest big names to back our appeal for refugees.

Speaking to the WTF podcast on Monday, Elliott  referred to Champion's Oscar-nominated film as a 'piece of s**t' and said he took personal offense to its portrayal of the American West.

Australia welcomed back international tourists last week for the first time in 704 days. But not everyone has celebrated the news..

In an image released by the Kremlin, the Russian president was seen in Moscow sitting with the Governor of Saint Petersburg Alexander Beglov.

Brisbane residents and experts fumed over official warnings they claim came far too late and gave no clear idea of how severe flooding might get as one 96 year old woman was lucky to survive.

Victoria police want to hear from commuters who witnessed an alleged sexual assault on February 4 in which a mature man hugged and kissed a teenage girl before following her onto a train.

Sydney locals were frustrated by forecasters pushing back the time when the storm would strike - first predicted for 6pm on Tuesday, but didn't arrive until about 12pm on Wednesday.

Lawmakers showed solidarity with Ukraine during the State of the Union address by donning yellow and blue while Congresswoman Lauren Boebert wore a 'Drill Baby Drill' outfit.

Just 41 percent of viewers watching President Joe Biden's State of the Union address on Tuesday had a 'very positive' reaction to the speech - the lowest in 15 years, according to a  CNN poll.

The former South Sydney star has had many 'sleepless' nights worrying about his loved ones in northern parts of the state, who many have already had to flee their homes.

Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with killing and then decapitating a Green Bay man at a home after smoking methamphetamine with him.

Ted Cruz had mockingly described the announcement that the lifting of mask mandates would coincide with Biden's speech 'a State of the Union miracle'.

A US Capitol Police officer has been suspended after allegedly getting into an intoxicated physical fight during an official trip in Israel last month, ahead of Nancy Pelosi's visit to the Middle East.

Frank Abrokwa, 37, was arrested for smearing feces on a woman's face in a vile subway attack and charged with forcible touching, menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment.

New Zealand has joined with the international community to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but it is not supporting Ukraine's military resistance.

A man charged with kidnapping after allegedly stealing a car with an 11-month-old boy inside in Melbourne repeatedly called emergency services operators asking for help to free him from jail. 

Ray Hadley is leading calls to fine motorists for not using headlights while driving as Australia sees increasingly severe weather events.

Grace Tame shared a tweet saying Scott Morrison had 'caught the virus' hours before the Prime Minister formally announced he had contracted Covid-19.

President Joe Biden stood up for the rights of transgender Americans during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

Australians have urged major supermarkets to change the name of their chicken Kiev product to Kyiv in recognition of an independent Ukraine, but may be wrong about the origin of the dish.

The home in Lismore in northern NSW was pictured engulfed in flames as the region's unprecedented deluge this week left the city completely inundated by floodwater.

The Rarotongan Beach Resort and Lagoonarium in Rarotonga, off the Cook Islands, made the drastic decision on Sunday, three days after Putin ordered his troops to march on Ukraine.

Reports are starting to surface identifying some of those killed as the invasion heads into its second week. (WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT)

Biden acknowledged the toll of the violent crime wave gripping US cities by taking a moment to remember the two young NYPD officers slain responding to a 911 call earlier this year.

Sean Hannity was unforgiving in his criticism of Biden's first State of the Union speech, saying it sounded like it had been written by a child in kindergarten and failed to address key issues.

The marsupial charged at the boy at the Kennett River Walk near the Great Ocean Road in Victoria before latching on to his leg, refusing to let go as adult tried to pull it off.

Judge Carmen Mullen signed off on a settlement worth millions involving the children of Alex Murdaugh's deceased housekeeper knowing it would be kept from public view, a complaint alleges.

The 22 Russians on Bloomberg's list of the 500 wealthiest people in the world have lost a combined $83 billion in the first two months of the year - most of it in the last six days.

A video explaining how Sydney's Warragamba dam works during extreme weather conditions comes as authorities renew calls to raise its level.

Australians affected by floods can access a one-off $1,000 payment for adults and $400 for kids provided by the Federal Government with more than 145,000 applications already made for support.

Raisa Smatko, a retired economist and grandmother, on Monday showed CNN's Clarissa Ward how she is making Molotov cocktails from her front yard in an eastern suburb of Kyiv.

South Australian health authorities have put doctors on alert as children in the state for the first time present with a type of mysterious inflammatory symptom after they had Covid-19

Rochester Community Schools settled with mother-of-two Elena Dinverno after she sued the district in federal court when higher ups contacted her employer and got her fired

Ramon Castro, 55, appeared Tuesday morning before Queens Supreme Court Justice Toni Cimino on several charges.

This came after an announcement that United said it has temporarily suspended flying over Russian airspace, joining other major U.S. carriers who have done so after Russia's invasion.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has seen Australian share prices rise, despite the uncertainty of war. A grain storer has done particularly well out of sanctions on Russia.

President Joe Biden pushed for an array of new energy initiatives that will please the progressive wing of his party but may be hard to swallow for some moderates, like Joe Manchin.

US President Joe Biden has thanked Australia and NZ for banding together with the free world to blast Russia with sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine and send Kyiv military and humanitarian aid.

Harrison.ai also gave special leave entitlements for new grandparents, and couples who had a miscarriage in a bit to retain and attract quality staff.

Lori Lightfoot, 59, announced on Tuesday that she asked World Business Chicago 'to suspend Chicago's sister city relationship with Moscow' in light of Putin's invasion of Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's threat to use nuclear weapons on Ukraine has pushed crude oil prices above $US100 a barrel. Australia petrol prices are at record highs and could go even higher.

Brendan Fahy Bequette, 25, died on February 28  after suffering from a mediastinal choriocarcinoma tumor, which he was diagnosed with on his 24th birthday.

Scott Mattison, 46, was shot and killed in broad daylight in northwestern Chicago on Sunday after being involved in a 'traffic dispute' with another driver in a white Ford Sedan, who was later arrested.

Judge Kristen Hawkins issued a gag order in Travis Scott concert case Tuesday so the case can be 'tried in the courtroom and not on social media.'

Biden expressed his bewilderment at high-capacity magazines and powerful rifles during his address on Tuesday, asking: 'You think the deer are wearing a Kevlar vest?'

President Joe Biden called on Congress to pass legislation that will lower costs for the American people, vowing that 'my top priority is getting prices under control.'

Ruthless Russian President Vladimir Putin has put his nuclear arms on high alert after Ukraine troops held off his invading forces, sending a chill through the West.

The Colorado Rep. interrupted the President to blame him for the deaths of 13 American service members in Afghanistan when he talked about flag-draped coffins,

Jill Biden hugged Ukrainian Amb. Oksana Markarova as Joe Biden asked his audience to rise in support of the Ukrainian people during Tuesday night's State of the Union address.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds blasted President Joe Biden and the Democrats for taking the country back in time when she gave the Republican Party's State of the Union response Tuesday night.

Maskless lawmakers mingled inside the House chamber for the first time in months as they gathered to hear President Biden deliver his State of the Union address Tuesday.

Miyell Hernandez, a four-year-old boy, accidentally shot himself to death after he found an unsecured gun in his mother's car while she was shopping inside a Georgia grocery store on Sunday evening.

A federal appeals court delivered a blow to Pentagon's vaccine mandate and denied the Biden Administration's attempt to reinstate the U.S. Navy's COVID-19 vaccine requirement.

Constable Zachary Rolfe, 30, who fatally shot Kumanjayi Walker, 19 during an arrest in Alice Springs, NT, says he was trained to pull the trigger until an offender is incapacitated.

Donald Trump 'barely knew where Ukraine was,' said former National Security Advisor John Bolton, snapping at a Newsmax anchor for saying Trump was 'very tough' on Russia.

A Brisbane woman was filmed kissing an eel she found in flood water at Logan, south of Brisbane, as water began to recede in south-east Queensland.

The defence minister said the inspiring Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky had rallied the world to defend his nation against the Russian might - but ruthless Putin was unstoppable.

Rising S Bunkers sells survival shelters ranging from a $39,500 'mini bunker' to an $8.35million 'aristocrat' bunker that fit up to 44 people.

Roughly half an hour after Biden's address to Congress, Tlaib opened her 15-minute speech by praising his response to the COVID-19 pandemic including the American Rescue Plan.

He was once a pin-up boy of the NRL and loved by footy fans - but now Manu Vatuvei will spend the next three years behind bars after he was jailed for his role in a bungled meth smuggling syndicate.

Kalman Tal died outside a seafood takeaway shop after his lower left leg was amputated in a park in the Far North Queensland town of Innisfail. His family believe he wanted it cut off due to rare mental illness.

Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer was caught standing up alone during the State of the Union when he jumped to applaud a line right as Republicans booed.

Severe thunderstorms are likely to hit flood affected areas in south east Queensland on Thursday, bringing giant hail, intense rainfall and destructive winds.

Novavax, the jab popular with anti-vaxxers, has been approved for use as a booster in Australia by ATAGI - with more than 25,000 doses already being administered.

'The watchdogs are back,' said President Joe Biden as he announced on Tuesday that the Department of Justice will appoint a chief justice for pandemic fraud.

More than 1000 directly employed workers' livelihoods are in jeopardy - along with contractors and sub-contractors - after the firm was put into administration last week.

The sale of pure caffeine was banned in Australia in 2019 after a report found a teaspoon of the powder - equivalent to 50 cups of coffee - contained 5,000 milligrams of the drug and could cause cardiac arrest.

Under California state law, David Fidel Mora-Rojas, 39, was not supposed to have a gun because of the restraining order.

A cow that washed up on a popular surfing beach in NSW after managing to survive the relentless floodwaters in Queensland was shot dead by police on Tuesday night at Tweed Heads.

Fencing has been erected around the United States Capitol as a security measure ahead of the State of the Union address, which Biden will deliver at 9 p.m. Eastern Time.

Police officers have began a dispersal operation on the anti-vax protesters that have been camped outside New Zealand's Parliament House since early February.

The Prime Minister sounded hoarse as he updated his 809,000 Facebook followers in a two-minute video on Wednesday morning.

Phoebe Thompson, 31, shared a racy photo of herself to Instagram on Monday and asked her followers to subscribe to her adult website so she could donate money towards the floods disaster