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Mar 24, 2022, 20 tweets

As #Ukraine marks one month to the day since the Russian invasion began, the western city of Lviv has settled into a new rhythm of living in a country under attack
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VIDEO: Shelling lights up night sky east of Kharkiv.

Flashes of light illuminate the night sky and a massive fire from Russian bombardments burns east of Ukraine's second city Kharkiv on the night of March 24

Face recognition tech joins war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is employing face recognition technology to identify invading Russian troops killed on its soil, a complex and unprecedented avenue for software already seen as problematic, experts say

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War in Ukraine: Latest developments.

- US supports kicking Russia out of G20
- IAEA alarm over shelling of Chernobyl staff town
- Chechen leader says forces have taken Mariupol city hall
- Biden to visit Polish town near Ukraine border

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Heritage at risk.

@AFP’s Sergei Supinsky photographs climbers draping canvas over and building wooden shields around Kyiv’s statue of Grand Prince Vladimir the Great - to protect the oldest monument and symbol of the Ukrainian capital from Russian shelling

VIDEO: Images of destruction in besieged city of Mariupol.

Ukraine says nearly 100,000 people are trapped without food, water or power under fierce shelling by Russian forces. Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says forces from his Russian region have taken control of the city hall

#BREAKING Russia says destroyed largest military fuel storage site in Ukraine

#BREAKING 300 feared dead in Russian strike on Mariupol theatre: city hall

US President Joe Biden will travel to a town near the Polish-Ukrainian border Friday, trying to signal Western resolve in the face of a Russian invasion that has increasingly turned to a grinding war of attrition
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#UPDATE Ukrainian officials in the strategic port city of #Mariupol say some 300 people could have died in last week's Russian strike on a theatre where hundreds were sheltering

📸 Satellite photo captured on March 10, shows the theatre in Mariupol

VIDEO: Images of destruction in Mariupol as Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov says forces from his Russian region have taken control of the city hall in Ukraine's besieged southeastern port of #Mariupol

#BREAKING Ukraine urges EU to close Russia, Belarus borders to enforce sanctions

#BREAKING Russia denies breaching international law with phosphorus bombs

#BREAKING Kremlin says Biden 'diverting attention' from US chemical, biological weapons programme

#BREAKING Kremlin says Russia's exclusion from G20 would not be 'fatal'

#UPDATE The Kremlin has accused US President Joe Biden of seeking to divert attention from his country's chemical and biological weapons programme after he said Russia could use such weapons in Ukraine

#UPDATE Ukraine has called on the European Union to close land, sea and air connections with Russia and Belarus, to tighten a sanctions package the West imposed over Moscow's invasion of #Ukraine

📸 View of the Terehova border pass between Russia and Latvia

VIDEO: A huge plume of black smoke rises from a fuel storage facility in the village of Kalynivka outside Kyiv, as Russia says it has destroyed the military site with Kalibr cruise missiles fired from the sea

#UPDATE The United States and EU have announced a new drive to wean Europe off Russian gas imports and so choke off the billions in revenues that are fuelling Moscow's ruinous war against #Ukraine️
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Chart showing EU imports by country of origin
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