Tens of thousands of its civilian population have found themselves trapped in Irpin. An unknown number have already died. But the survivors have not been abandoned.

Between them, the oligarchs have managed to spirit away £1.8billion in assets. A fifth yacht linked to a firm subject to sanctions was also on the move.

The best selling author, 61, took to her Instagram account earlier this week to announce the news after 'feeling helpless about the situation.'

Britain's Queen Elizabeth will not attend Monday's Commonwealth Service, Buckingham Palace has said, in what was to have been her first in-person public engagement since being advised to rest.

The eyes of the world are on Volodymyr Zelensky and his wife Olena (pictured), who have humbled us with their resolve, patriotism and bravery.

The US government slapped new sanctions on Russians, including the ice dancing wife of Kremlin spox Dmitry Peskov and the banker who pays a woman linked to Putin.

Natalia Ruemmele has warned that staffers who usually work 12 hour shifts have been maintaining the nuclear plant at gunpoint for more than two weeks since Russian forces seized control of the site.

Shane Warne may have been dead for up to 45 minutes before paramedics were called to his luxury villa in Thailand, first responders claim.

Sky Sports claim the bank has taken the action because it needs time to evaluate the licence handed to the club by the UK government to continue football-related activities.

The UK bought a record £2.6billion of goods from Russia the month before Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, including £590.4million of oil and £289.1million of gas.

In hellish scenes not witnessed in Europe since WW2, Mariupol's residents fight one another for food and bodies are buried in mass graves as more than 1,500 people have now died in the city.

DOMINIC SANDBROOK: Bleak and bloody as the world seems today, just imagine how much worse it would be if Trump and Corbyn were calling the shots.

The widow of Monty Python's Terry Jones told him she was leaving him two days after he signed a new will in her favour, it was claimed yesterday.

The UK ranks roughly in the middle of a global league table of excess death rates, coming 102nd out of 191 countries and territories.

John Bercow (pictured) somehow remains on this public institution's payroll for the time being, despite this week's publication of a damning official report finding him to be a 'serial bully' and 'liar'.

Prices of basic food items in the UK could soar by as much as 50 per cent as a result of the conflict in Ukraine - and the crisis could even kill off a third of fish and chip shops.

The amount contained in the torrent of envelopes arriving in the daily post has burst through the £2.5million barrier, accompanied by letters of compassion for Ukrainian refugees.

On the face of it, Meghan and Harry's year that began with the hype and rage of their Oprah interview doesn't seem to have added up to much.

Now the general staff of the Ukrainian armed forces have released an image of the so-called Ghost of Kyiv, alongside his threat: 'Hello occupier, I'm coming for your soul!'.

Trivago yesterday announced they would continue as training kit sponsors, despite other partners walking away in the wake of the sanctions against owner Roman Abramovich.

President Joe Biden has turned to a bevy of TikTok influencers to help him battle Russia's propaganda machine about its invasion of the Ukraine.

Also arrested is Anatoly Bolyukh, Beseda's deputy, according to respected author Andrey Soldatov, who said Putin is 'truly unhappy' with the agency - which he ran before becoming president.

EU leaders gathered at the Versailles Palace on Friday announced a plan to improve their militaries together and for the bloc to produce its own food, energy and military hardware.

Valeriia Maksetska, 31, was shot dead alongside her mother Irina and their driver by a passing Russian tank in a village outside Kyiv. Friends have hailed her as a 'brave' medic who stayed behind.

Olga Khomenko, 37, was pictured leaving St Albans Crown Court with a suitcase as she intended to fly to the Polish border immediately to rescue her daughter who is stuck in war-torn Kyiv.

Sheila Seleoane was similarly detached from other residents of Lord's Court, Peckham, a modern building containing 20 flats owned by the Peabody Trust, the affordable housing charity.

AMANDA PLATELL: On International Women's Day this week, the no-nonsense bravery of the women in Ukraine could not have been in greater contrast to the behaviour of the sisterhood here.

Prosecutors and defense lawyers in Adnan Syed's murder case agreed to file a joint motion on Thursday, asking a judge to test evidence from Hae Min Lee's killing for DNA sing modern methods.

Pulvinder Dhillon, 68, from London, was killed on the M4 on Monday when her car broke down and was struck by a white van. Smart motorway tech was allegedly broken during the fatal smash.

The massage therapist, known by her nickname Bovi, 27, was one of two women who visited the Aussie icon's room Friday afternoon at the exclusive Samujana Villa resort on Koh Samui.

Researchers at Clarkson University found that the make up of a person's gut microbiome could have a major impact on their personality and how they act day to day.

Angharad Williamson, 30, and her partner John Cole, 40, are accused of killing Logan Mwangi - with the help of a 14-year-old boy - at their home in Bridgend, South Wales, in July last year.

Wives, girlfriends and exes of oligarchs face the unenviable task of navigating their way through the seismic scandal swirling around their former beaus after they were sanctioned.

On Thursday, China refused to supply Russian airlines with aircraft parts, an official at Russia's aviation authority. Russia will look to source parts from other countries including Turkey and India

Vladimir Potanin, who heads the Nornickel mining company, slammed Putin over the attempts to respond to Western sanctions.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are campaigning for Britain to work with pharmaceutical companies to waive intellectual property rights on the life-saving jabs.

CONTAINS SPOILERS Fans have taken to Twitter to say the puzzle has become 'too difficult' since the New York Times took it over with today's answer leaving players frustrated.

Molly Masters, founder of UK subscription service Books That Matter, went into the den to pitch for a £50,000 investment in exchange for a 5 per cent stake in her business.

Speaking at a press conference in Kyiv, a soldier from the 2nd Motor Rifle Division said he fears being killed when he is returned to Russia, speaking against a prisoner exchange.

Figures from data firm Experian Catalist show the average cost of a litre of petrol at UK forecourts on Thursday was 161.1p, up from 159.6p on Wednesday.

The hacktivists broke into the Roskomnadzor federal agency to steal the classified documents which they then passed on to transparency organisation Distributed Denial of Secrets.

An international team of scientists estimate more than 18million people died because of the virus by the end of December last year. But official records indicate only around 5.9million have died with the virus.

ISIS 'pledged allegiance' to their new leader 'Abu Hasan al-Hashemi al-Qurashi as an emir over believers and the caliph of Muslims,' the group's spokesperson said in an audio recording today.

The body of the cricket legend landed in Melbourne on a private jet on Thursday night.

Christine Silawan, 17, was found dead this morning in a vacant field in Barangay Bangkal, Philippines, after being raped and having her face cut off.

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Multiple people have been rushed to hospital following a horrific head-on crash between a police van and a ute north of Brisbane on Saturday afternoon just before 3pm.

Moscow microbiologist Dr Yevgeny Levitin has accused the Kremlin of 'pure lies' and 'propaganda', claiming Ukraine had secret biowarfare labs which 'could attack Russia'.

Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov and academic Semyon Bagdasarov used an appearance on state TV to criticise Vladimir Putin's ruthless invasion of Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to release radioactive waste at the nuclear site which he plans to blame on Ukrainian 'saboteurs', Kyiv officials have warned.

Bec Kinross, 39, was staying at a caravan park at Ebden, in north-east Victoria on Australia Day with her partner Luke and her four-month-old son Sam when he was bitten by a mosquito.

Keen punters mixed with celebrities including Kate Waterhouse at the Chandon Ladies Day, which serves as the opening day of the 2022 Longines Golden Slipper Carnival.

CCTV footage, posted on Telegram by the deputy head of Ukraine's presidential office, appears to show a group of men escorting Ivan Fedorov out of a building and across a square.

Jim and Rosemary Welsh claim their son David was forced to leave a $1million-a-year role due to conditions stemming from abuse he suffered at the hands of a Brisbane school counsellor.

An unfortunate student, 21, has been left feeling defeated after unknowingly eating a Cadbury's Creme Egg which would have bagged him £10,000 (pictured).

Barr, 71, criticized the former president during an interview with CNN's Jake Tapper on Friday, saying Trump would not make for a good president and would lose a 2024 presidential election bid.

Attorney Brian Panish claimed Alec Baldwin, 63, was trying to minimize the role he played in the October 21 incident that killed Halyna Hutchins and that Baldwin was the only one to blame for the death.

CBS insiders allege that network co-president Neeraj Khemlani is looking to replace O'Donnell in May. Some have pointed to CBS Mornings anchor Tony Dokoupil as her possible successor.

Video from a biker in Puebla, Mexico, shows the moment an SUV's door swung open when making a left turn on a busy intersection as a boy in a red shirt could be spotted holding onto the door.

The Prime Minister labelled the requirement for close contacts to isolate for a week 'redundant' on Saturday while also ruling out the return of old hated restrictions.

Wilton Manors police have arrested a suspect in connection to the group of West Point cadets on spring break who overdosed on cocaine laced with fentanyl Thursday night.

KTLA journalist Gene Kang was reporting live from the intersection of Hoover and 84th Streets in South Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon when a black sedan T-boned a blue car.

Senator Kimberley Kitching thyroid symptoms were improving but caused her to lose weight in recent months before her death on Thursday afternoon.

While 2020 saw a dismal 1,500 people a day flying to Florida, with about 65,000 Spring Breakers last year, it's estimated that 570,000 students will be on holiday for the biggest Spring Break yet.

Celebrities from all around the world have joined the outpouring of grief after the legendary leg spinner was found dead inside his Thai villa on Friday.

Darren 'Boof' Lehmann survived a heart attack on his 50th birthday in 2020 and since then has quit smoking and started exercising. Men don't need to suffer Shane Warne's fate, he says.

Snowfall totals range from about one to three inches in northern parts of Alabama and Mississippi to about 13 inches in northern Maine.

Cricket legend Shane Warne made the dig at UK batsman Paul Collingwood while he was touring the UK to promote his new autobiography 'No Spin' in 2018.

Troy Adam Hausler, 32, was in the midst of a psychotic break when he launched his attack against Toby Richter, 40, the Western Australia Supreme Court heard.

Sarah Mudge, 31, made chilling online posts about murder threats to her ex-partner Stanley Obi before setting his home on fire in New Beith, in Brisbane's south in the early hours of Thursday.

The 46-year-old was seen allegedly swerving across the road and mounting gutters in a blue Holden Trax in Warilla, Shellharbour, south of Sydney on Friday around 5.40pm.

Harvey Marcelin, 83, was arrested late last week for the killing of 68-year-old woman Susan Leydon after she was allegedly caught on surveillance cameras dumping a body in Brooklyn.

A rampaging camel attacked and killed Bobby Matheny, 42, and Tommy Gunn, 67, at a Tennessee petting zoo in Obion County on Thursday afternoon. It was later put down by officers.

Katie Wood had three tyres on her Kia Sportage let down. An educational psychologist, she was two hours late for work as she tracked down a portable pump and then headed to a garage.

The anti-vax protestor had been delivering his speech to a small crowd gathered outside the ABC Studio in Canberra on Friday.

Residents of Mariupol have resorted to fighting one another for food while bodies are being buried in trenches before they pile high in the streets.

Smart CCTV using artificial intelligence should be deployed to spot terrorists on public transport and at major events, a counter-terrorism review has said.

Keir Starmer last night tried to bring some clarity to the controversial question of defining what a woman is. The English Labour leader inisisted: 'Trans women are women.'

PUZDER: Putin is only a part of the reason oil prices are increasing. America could offset that with aggressive support for the US energy sector. The failure to do so is Biden's fault.

Listening to classical music makes wine taste better - because it enhances our perception of taste, researchers find after conducting a blind taste test with and without background music.

Swiss researchers discovered people with high knee pain reported fewer aches over six months after taking a twice-daily olive leaf extract (Ole) supplement.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: However positively Vladimir Putin spins it, the truth is his illegal invasion of Ukraine has lurched from calamity to crisis.

Luka is thought to be the first baby born to refugees fleeing Ukraine - his parents Ksenia and Ruslan drove nearly 700 miles from Kharviv and just reached the border for his birth on February 26.

Indoor face masks, bans on singing and dancing, density limits and working from home are among the changes recommended by the state health department.

One US mother who became hooked, Kara Trainor (pictured), told how her baby son was born addicted. The hearing took place in a courtroom in White Plains, New York.

Iryna Sergeyeva became the country's first female volunteer to receive a full military contract, having signed up to defend Ukraine in 2017.

Russian forces bearing down on Kyiv yesterday moved into strategic firing positions ahead of an all-out assault - while Ukrainian forces begin to dig trenches to defend their capital city.

Dan Wallis, who runs Rookery Farms in Newbury, Berkshire, said he made the decision as he anticipated shortages of wheat and barley in the short term.

Campaigners have branded the plan a 'tax on caring' and are calling on ministers to extend free testing to care home visitors in England.

Elena Golovenskaya broke down as she revealed her horror that her son, Major Aleksey Golovensky, had allegedly been attacking her native Ukraine while on a 'reconnaissance' mission for Moscow.

Sarah Mudge, 30, broke into Stanley Obi's house in Brisbane on Thursday and set him on fire. In December, she urged people to blame him if anything happened to her or her children.

LORD ASHCROFT: Trudi McPhee, a sixth generation islander, farms her 8,500 acres of land populated by 1,700 sheep on East Falkland, where she was born and raised. She helped troops free it.

Dr Theodore Piepenbrock, a top economist, is seeking £4million in compensation from LSE, claiming he was the victim of sexual harassment by two female colleagues.

The limited edition Supreme x Burberry clothes shoppers were brawling over in the streets of NYC was resold online with 600% markups

One of the alleged victims, who has not been identified because he is a minor, said he no longer feels safe attending Lyons Creek Middle School, in Broward County, Florida.

Gabby Petito's parents argue in the lawsuit, that Chris and Roberta Laundrie were aware that their son had killed Gabby, and that they tried to help him flee the country.

Discovery shareholders voted Friday to approve the media company's $43 billion merger with WarnerMedia, moving the deal closer to completion after the resolution of CNN scandals.

EXCLUSIVE: Just 136 of the nearly 600 extra coronavirus patients in English hospitals over the last week were primarily there for the virus, MailOnline analysis revealed today.

Juan Tejedor Baron, 23, and Scott Hannon, 34, were apprehended in California on Wednesday following a multi-state manhunt in connection with the murder of Gary Ruby, 73, in Hawaii.

According to officials, an elderly man lost control of his gray SUV, went off the road and into the patio area of the Parthenon Restaurant on Connecticut Avenue NW in the the nation's capital.

Biden promised to welcome refugees from Ukraine with 'open arms' on Friday even as complaints surface that his administration is not doing enough to rescue people fleeing the violence.

The former President wrote 'To Ghislaine with love' in blue marker in the front cover of 'My Life', said Maxwell's former dog walker Rasmus Alpsjö.

Lisa Townsend is a rare, defiant voice on an issue that's become so politically charged that this week that two Labour front-benchers failed to define what a woman was.

The U.S. said Russia was spreading 'disinformation' at the UN Security Council and that it could use bio agents for 'assassinations' after Russia lobbed accusations.

London mayor Sadiq Khan is refusing to approve a £500,000 pay-off for Dame Cressida Dick - delaying her departure and hampering efforts to fill the top job in scandal-rocked Scotland Yard.

Jackson and his wife LaTanya begged the judge not to give Smollett jail time, and said they were 'incredulous' about the entire case against him.

Attorneys for Alec Baldwin on Friday filed an arbitration demand against his fellow Rust producers, claiming that the actor's contract protected him from financial responsibility related to Hutchins' death.

Government dashboard data shows there were 72,898 new confirmed infections across the UK in the past 24 hours. Latest hospital data reveals there were 1,459 admissions.

In January 2019, when the crime was first reported to police as a hate crime and Smollett was still being considered a victim, she exchanged text messages with his a friend of the Smollett family.

Entire homes, shops and businesses were completely submerged in flood-ravaged Lismore. Many locals have been left with nothing - but no-one has a simple solution to safeguard their future.

Six West Point football players vacationing in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, during spring break were hospitalized after overdosing on fentanyl-laced cocaine and going into cardiac arrest.

Smollett's performance in the courtroom is now being mercilessly mocked online, with some questioning who the actor thinks is out to get him.

Joe Biden warned lawmakers attending  the House Democratic Caucus Issues Conference in Philadelphia that he'll have far less power next year if the Democrats lose Congress.

President Joe Biden visited a Philadelphia elementary school Friday afternoon - and even delivered some dating advice to a classroom of third-graders.

Joel Praneet Siam, 38, of San Diego, vandalized cars and stole a boat at Newport Beach in California on Thursday.

Todd and Michelle were bludgeoned to death in the sleep on November 30, 2003, while their children slept in their rooms down the hallway.

Manhattan renters who leased their apartments at deep pandemic discounts are taking to TikTok to share their dismay as landlords jack up their rents by as much as 60% or more.

The Princess Royal today made the announcement during a visit to the TS Queen Mary, which is being restored in Glasgow. It has been decided that the vessel will hopefully sail again by 2024.

The United States European Command (EUCOM) started 'Crystal Arrow 22' military training in the Baltic state with a total of 2,800 troops including forces from 10 other countries.

A bewildered newscaster is captured attempting to guide bumbling LAPD officers frantically searching for suspect who is hiding feet from them.

Four migrants, including two four-year-old children, drowned in the Rio Grande river over the last seven days in failed attempts to cross from Mexico into the U.S.

DailyMail.com spotted Sam Elliott running errands in his first sighting since bashing the film Power of the Dog.

The 24-year-old told Warwick Crown Court he was 'sipping' brandy and Jagermeister and chased a man across a ring road to disarm him as he thought he had a knife.

Jennifer Mbazira, 50, (pictured) from Clapham, London, demanded £10million from the man, who she believed was a billionaire, or else she said she would reveal his 'degrading' sex acts.

On Friday, the 39-year-old woke up as inmate #20220310140, one of 6,000 convicts and suspects in the Cook County Jail, serving the first day of a 150-day sentence.

The average price of a gallon of gas in America rose to $4.331 on Friday, up yet again from $4.318 on Thursday, again a record for highest in United States' history.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov complained that Russia feels 'in danger' after western allies moved military infrastructure eastward, in his latest gaslighting comments.

Thousands of dogs, cats and other animals are in rescue shelters throughout war-torn Ukraine. Their devoted and courageous caretakers have refused to leave the animals behind.

The Metropolitan Police breached the rights of organisers of a vigil for Sarah Everard with its handling of the planned event, High Court judges have ruled.

Alisher Usmanov, 68, is known to have strong Kremlin connections but new claims allege his closeness to Moscow's intelligence structures. The oligarch was hit by UK Government sanctions.

'I don't feel like I did anything wrong,' Tri-Cities High School coach Kenneth Miller said. 'We located guns. We saved lives,' he added.

Iuliia Mendel said seeing Vice President Harris laugh during her press conference was a 'very bad experience' for Ukrainians during the refugee crisis caused by Putin's invasion.

Appearing before Hull Crown Court, Kayleigh Pepper, 36, admitted stealing £20,000 from The Rich Foundation - which she used to buy lavish hotel rooms and fund expensive holidays.

The tourist vessel sank within minutes of getting into difficulty off the Puerto Rican island of Culebra on Saturday, March 5, according to rescue skipper Angel Abad who raced to the scene.

Met Police officer PC Luke Wilson, 28, headbutted City bar manager Jonny White on July 2 last year after he and a group of around 20 officers were confronted for breaching Covid instructions.

Graham Wildin, 69, has moved several of his classic cars, including a Bentley, onto the street in front of his Forest of Dean home to create 'parking chaos'.

Police has today released a CCTV image in a bid to catch a young woman reported to have sexually assaulted a 13 year old boy in a Primark store in Southampton city centre, Hampshire.

He said he never believed that Putin would invade - and now felt he had to do something after seeing civilians bombed and killed.

The hybrid Covid variant "Deltacron" a combination of Omicron and Delta is not currently a cause for worry as it is not growing fast and is unlikely to replace its dominant parent strain scientists say,

Amelia Jenkinson, chief executive of the School of Sexuality Education charity, said that sex and relationships guidance should focus on how pupils should not pressure others.

Jade Fitzpatrick, 26, sparked a relationship with the 17-year-old resident at the home, based in Wales, and communicated with him using a secret love language called 'jibba-jabba'.

Former major league pitcher Odalis Pérez has died the age of 44 after suffering a fall at his home in the Dominican Republic on Thursday. 

Vice President Kamala Harris met with U.S. troops in Poland Friday before traveling to Bucharest, Romania for her meeting with Romanian President Klaus Iohannis on her final day in Europe.

Amid the stand-off with the Soviet Union in the 1970s, the British Government produced a public information campaign that advised ordinary Britons on what to do in the event of a nuclear attack.

Anorexia sufferer Hayley Smith, 27, of Sturry, Kent, died on December 29, 2019, after she was released from an eating disorder clinic over the Christmas holidays, an inquest heard.

Natasha Colley (pictured) claimed daughter Megan - born with displaced hips - had been left severely disabled because doctors failed to correct the issue during operations when she was younger.

Mr McKeague, of Dunfermline, Fife, was 23 when he disappeared in the early hours of September 24, 2016, after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk.

A disabled care home with 330 residents in the town of Oskil, near Kharkiv, was bombed today by Russian warplanes which have also been targeting local schools, according to city officials.

A six-month-old baby was found close to death in a Quality Inn hotel room in Springfield, Oregon, with his dead mother's corpse, up to five days after she overdosed on drugs.

Warmer weather this weekend is set to be overshadowed by a return of rainy spells over Saturday and Sunday as temperatures may reach highs of 16C (60.8F) by the middle of next week.