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Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:57:27 +0000
Desperate relatives seek news from Ukraine port siege
Residents trapped inside Ukraine’s besieged port city Mariupol pleaded for help on Friday, March 11, as family members desperately tried to contact them amid a communications blackout. The city is without water, gas and electricity, with commun...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:37:11 +0000
2.5 million people have now fled Ukraine: UN
Two and a half million people have fled Ukraine since Russia invaded on February 24, the United Nations said Friday, “Two and a half million people have now fled Ukraine, including 116,000 third-country nationals,” Paul Dillon, spokesman ...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:36:39 +0000
EU leaders dash Ukraine’s swift accession hopes
EU leaders doused Ukraine’s hopes Thursday of quickly gaining European Union membership, as they met to urgently address the fallout of Russia’s invasion of its pro-Brussels neighbour. The meeting at the palace of Versailles was set to be...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 09:00:20 +0000
US Congress passes budget including $14 bn for Ukraine
The US Congress passed a huge omnibus 2022 spending bill Thursday including almost $14 billion in humanitarian and military aid to war-torn Ukraine, as its invasion by Russia entered its third week. Lawmakers had been facing the latest in a series of...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:57:00 +0000
Ukraine official: Cost of damage from Russian invasion already exceeds $100 billion
The cost of damage to Ukrainian civilian property and state infrastructure caused by Russia’s invasion  from destruction due to a full-scale war from Russia is already in excess of USD $100 billion, Oleh Ustvenko, an advisor to the Ukrainian Presi...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:47:43 +0000
Russia’s war in Ukraine: Latest developments – March 11, No. 1
Russia encircling Kyiv The capital Kyiv may soon be encircled, with Russian forces moving in on areas north and west of the capital, the Ukrainian military says, with four other major cities effectively besieged. Aid convoy attacked Ukraine’s P...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:25:51 +0000
Mariupol mayor accuses Russia of genocide: air strikes on residential buildings
Mariupol mayor Vadym Boychenko in a late Thursday, March 10, statement accused the Russian Federation (RF) blockading the Azov Sea city of targeting civilians and attempting genocide, among other war crimes. Boychenko said RF ground and air forces ha...

Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:25:08 +0000
Russia widens its missile bombardment of Ukraine: Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, hit
The Russian Federation (RF) widened its bombardment of Ukraine early Friday morning, March 11, sending long range missiles to strike the cities Dnipro, Ivano-Frankivsk and Lutsk, news reports said. Dnipro was hit for the first time in the war. Accord...

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:26:43 +0000
War in Ukraine offers redemption to maligned US intellligence community
Caught on the back foot by the Taliban’s lightning takeover of Kabul last August, US intelligence services have earned a measure of redemption with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which they predicted and detailed with impressive precision....

Thu, 10 Mar 2022 17:23:29 +0000
Russia’s war in Ukraine: Latest developments – March 10, no. 2
– Russia moves on Kyiv – Fears are mounting Kyiv will soon be encircled, with Russian tanks just a few kilometres (miles) northeast of the city. Mayor Vitali Klitschko says half the population has fled. But he warns that the city is now &...



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