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Apr 8, 2022, 27 tweets

#BREAKING EU's Von der Leyen, Borrell say they are en route to Kyiv

#UPDATE European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced Friday that she was en route to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv alongside the bloc's diplomatic chief Josep Borrell.

"Looking forward to Kyiv," Von der Leyen wrote on Twitter

#BREAKING Japan says expelling eight Russian diplomats, officials

#BREAKING World food prices hit 'highest levels ever' due to Ukraine war: FAO

#BREAKING Two rockets strike train station in east Ukraine used for evacuations: statement

#BREAKING At least 20 dead in reported rocket attack on train station in eastern Ukraine city of Kramatorsk being used for civilian evacuations: AFP journalists

#BREAKING 30 killed, 100 injured in station attack in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine: railways chief

#BREAKING Russian central bank cuts key rate, hiked after troops sent to Ukraine, from 20 to 17 percent

#BREAKING Japan PM announces fresh sanctions on Russia, including coal imports ban

#BREAKING At least 35 killed in rocket attack on Kramatorsk rail hub, eastern Ukraine: rescue worker to AFP

#BREAKING Ukraine President Zelensky says Russia an 'evil' with 'no limits' after deadly train station attack

#BREAKING UK sanctions daughters of Russia's Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine

#BREAKING EU 'strongly condemns' attack on Ukraine train station: foreign policy chief Borrell

#BREAKING Russia's defence ministry denies attack on train station in eastern Ukraine's Kramatorsk, statements from Kyiv 'absolutely untrue'

#BREAKING EU says nearly 30 billion euros in Russian, Belarusian assets frozen so far

#BREAKING 39 killed, including 4 children, in eastern Ukraine train station strike: Ukraine security service

#BREAKING Slovakia gives S-300 air defence system to Ukraine: PM

#BREAKING Russian defence ministry accuses Kyiv of deliberately targeting train station in eastern Ukraine city of Kramatorsk

#BREAKING Germany unveils multi-billion euro support package to help companies weather Ukraine fallout

#BREAKING Nearly 700 people killed in Ukrainian city of Chernigiv since start of war: mayor

#BREAKING Russia, Ukraine 'willing to hold talks in Turkey' despite Bucha images: Turkish official

#BREAKING Russia expels 45 Polish diplomats, foreign ministry says, in tit-for-tat move

#BREAKING Death toll in Ukraine train station strike rises to 50, including 5 children: governor

#BREAKING UK PM says sending Ukraine more anti-aircraft, anti-tank missiles after 'unconscionable' train station attack

#BREAKING German Chancellor Scholz says Ukraine train station attack 'atrocious'

#BREAKING Ukraine's Odessa introduces weekend curfew over 'missile strike threat': authorities

#UPDATE A rocket attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of #Kramatorsk killed fifty people on Friday, including five children, a regional governor said, as civilians raced to flee the Donbas region bracing for a feared Russian offensive ▶️ u.afp.com/whSa

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