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Fears of an energy war between Russia and the West grew after the United States pushed its allies to ban Russian oil imports as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, where talks on humanitarian corridors made little progress reut.rs/3Crs7Qr

Russian President Vladimir Putin has now deployed into Ukraine nearly 100% of the more than 150,000 forces that he had pre-staged outside the country before the invasion, a senior U.S. defense official said reut.rs/35T260h

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy rejected Russian proposals to evacuate Ukrainian citizens into what he has described as 'occupied territory' in Russia and Belarus reut.rs/3hNAkFb

Prime Minister Boris Johnson rejected calls for Britain to ease visa requirements for Ukrainian refugees fleeing conflict, saying Britain was a generous country but it needed to maintain checks on who was arriving reut.rs/3HNKa4p

In pictures: Failed ceasefires, relentless bombing in Ukraine reut.rs/3HSrCjJ

The United States is willing to move ahead with a ban on Russian oil imports without the participation of allies in Europe, two people familiar with the matter said, in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3hLf02X

More than 1.7 million Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion have so far crossed into Central Europe, the United Nation's refugee agency said, as thousands more streamed across the borders reut.rs/3pL4z41

Russia has told Ukraine it is ready to halt military operations 'in a moment' if Kyiv meets a list of conditions, the Kremlin spokesman said reut.rs/3hMfXIn

The possibility that the United States might ban Russian oil imports has triggered a surge in Brent crude to almost $140 a barrel, its highest level since 2008 reut.rs/3KvOk2R

For foreign fighters, Ukraine offers purpose, camaraderie and a cause reut.rs/34o8Wuh

Slideshow: Ukraine's children caught in the chaos of the Russian invasion

Russia's size and close integration into the global aviation industry since the end of the Cold War means sanctions related to its invasion of Ukraine are having outsized consequences, relative to earlier freezes on Iran and North Korea reut.rs/3ISsia7

Two fires broke out at oil depots in the Zhytomyr region of Ukraine, with the country's State Emergency Services saying they were caused by Russian air strikes

Ukraine's military intelligence said that Ukrainian forces have killed a Russian general near the besieged city of Kharkiv, the second Russian senior commander to die in the invasion reut.rs/3tCg7Yo

Japan has frozen the assets of an additional 32 Russian and Belarusian officials and oligarchs following the invasion of Ukraine, the Ministry of Finance announced reut.rs/3Kw78it

Ukraine and Russia: This is what you need to know right now reut.rs/3vO9yos

The Russian and Ukrainian ambassadors to the United Nations hit out at each other at a Security Council meeting called to discuss the worsening humanitarian crisis in Ukraine reut.rs/3pIn7ld

Germany will host a virtual meeting of agricultural ministers from G7 countries to discuss the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on global food security and how to best stabilize food markets, the government said reut.rs/3vO2d8r

Russia is trying to manipulate French President Emmanuel Macron and other Western leaders by demanding that any humanitarian corridors in Ukraine exit through Russia or Belarus, a senior Ukrainian official said reut.rs/3pM2zZr

The World Bank said its executive board approved a $723 million package of loans and grants for Ukraine, providing desperately needed government budget support as the country battles a Russian invasion reut.rs/3HQQjwP

Russia's growing reliance on longer-range strikes on Ukrainian targets is increasing the number of civilian casualties and damage to civilian infrastructure, the Pentagon said reut.rs/3IUbiQy

'A war for life of our child': Health crisis spills out of Ukraine conflict reut.rs/3hLHI3R

A total of 291,081 Ukrainians have fled to Romania since a Russian invasion on Feb. 24, including 29,636 on Monday, border police data showed reut.rs/34sQCAo

Ukraine began evacuating civilians from besieged cities after Russia allowed the creation of ‘humanitarian corridors,’ and Kyiv appealed to Moscow to keep its guns silent so that people could leave safely reut.rs/3MuUmSZ

Ukrainians boarded buses to flee the besieged eastern city of Sumy, the first evacuation from a Ukrainian city through a humanitarian corridor agreed with Russia after several failed attempts in recent days reut.rs/3IVdiYO

They fear a Russian attack is imminent, but soldiers in Ukraine's Odessa took time to buy friends and family flowers for #InternationalWomensDay even though life in the Black Sea port has been turned upside down reut.rs/3KquN3B