▶️Russian artillery shells Kyiv in 'worst strikes since 1941'
▶️Kyiv residents take cover underground in echoes of London Blitz
▶️Russians surprised by level of resistance from Ukraine's army
🔴Western leaders fear Vladimir Putin could unleash devastating thermobaric rockets on Ukraine after fierce resistance slowed the Russian army's advance
🔴 Several loud blasts have rocked Ukraine’s capital tonight as the city's mayor warned of a "very difficult" night ahead with Russian troops closing in
What is being fought in the cities of Ukraine is not just a war for that country’s freedom and future, it is a conflict that will determine Russia’s, too...
✍️If, unlikely as it seems, Putin is able to take and hold Ukraine, even if only for a while, it will prove a Pyrrhic victory, Galeotti writes
🚨Ukraine’s foreign minister says his country is suffering “horrific rocket strikes” not seen since the Second World War as Russian artillery pounded Kyiv.
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🔴Russian forces are just miles away from Kyiv.
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told lawmakers on a phone call at 6:30pm Eastern Time that Russian mechanised forces were closing in on the capital
🇱🇹Lithuania has become the latest country in Europe to impose a state of emergency after the Russian invasion of Ukraine telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇩🇪Germany is boosting its defence to ward off any possible surges in cyberattacks, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺Banks in Moscow are running out of foreign currency.
Sberbank, Russia’s biggest bank, in a statement called on Russia not to panic-withdraw funds telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…