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Feb 25, 2022 • 118 tweets • 61 min read • Read on X
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🚨Ukraine’s foreign minister says his country is suffering “horrific rocket strikes” not seen since the Second World War as Russian artillery pounded Kyiv.

Follow live updates throughout the day here ⬇️
🔴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

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🇹🇼Taiwan has said it will join “democratic countries” in imposing sanctions on Russia.

The foreign ministry said it will “adopt appropriate measures in order to free Ukraine from the horrors of war”

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🔴Firefighters extinguish a blaze at a damaged residential building at Koshytsa Street, a suburb of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, on Friday.

Invading Russian forces have pressed deep into Ukraine as deadly battles reach the outskirts of Kyiv
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Retired four-star US naval officer James Stavridis says Russia’s military strategy is a “textbook invasion.”

🗣️“The only thing I haven’t seen yet, is a massive cyber attack. The Russians have that capability"
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Here's what happened overnight:

🔴Russia began heavy assault on Ukraine in the early hours of Friday

🔴Russia took control of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant

🔴Ukrainian Border Guard reported casualties following missile strike in Zaporizhia
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🇺🇦Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he has asked all 27 European leaders whether his country will be admitted to Nato, but has yet to get an answer
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🗣️Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko said "the hardest day will be today" in its efforts to repel Russian forces.

"The enemy’s plan is to break through with tank columns from the side of Ivankiv and Chernihiv to Kyiv"
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🇷🇺Russia has about 4,447 nuclear warheads, 1,588 of which are deployed on ballistic missiles and heavy bomber bases.

Roughly 977 strategic warheads and 1,912 nonstrategic warheads are in reserve, according to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Audio has reportedly emerged of the incident in which 13 Ukrainian border guards were killed in the first day of fighting on the the country's Snake Island.

🗣️"Russian military ship, go f**k yourself," they said in the transcript
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The latest from @JamesERothwell in Kyiv ⬇️
"From Russia with hate".

How the world's newspapers reacted to Russia's invasion of Ukraine ⬇️
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🔴Russia intends to take the whole of Ukraine, but its army failed to succeed on the first day of its invasion, Ben Wallace has said

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🇺🇦Vitali Klitschko, the former world heavyweight champion and the mayor of Kyiv, has said that he is ready to join Ukrainian soldiers in fighting against the Russian invasion of his country.

"I will be fighting. I believe in Ukraine"
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These are the key verified areas hit in Ukraine by the Russian military.

Here is what happened in the early hours of Friday morning 👇
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Since yesterday:

🔴137 Ukrainian people have been killed

🔴Ukraine's president has banned men of fighting age from leaving the country

🔴Ukraine has claimed that the West has left them to fight "alone", despite sanctions
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🔴Ukraine's deputy minister of defence has said the Russian military seized two cars belonging to Ukrainian forces.

They changed into the uniform of the Ukrainian army and drove to the centre of Kyiv, with a column of military trucks following behind
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🗣️Putin is like Adolf Hitler, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said, in that all along he had "a plan to invade parts of Europe and all of the diplomacy was about a straw man attempt by him to buy time"
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“Take these seeds and put them in your pockets so at least sunflowers will grow when you all lie down here"

An unnamed woman has been filmed voicing her outrage at a Russian soldier, in an extraordinary scene of defiance
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❌Britain would like to cut off Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system, but needs other countries to cooperate, Ben Wallace said.

Biden has said that the US and the EU have decided not to cut Russia off from SWIFT
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🚨Russian forces have captured Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea, where 82 Ukrainian soldiers surrendered to them.

Ukrainian officials have said that all 13 border guards deployed on the island were killed by arms fire from a Russian warship
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🔴Ukrainian officials have told civilians to prepare Molotov cocktails and resist the advance of Russian forces.

Explosions and gunfire have been heard in the northern district of Obolonsky, and larger blasts heard from as far away as the city centre
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🗣️Ukraine’s foreign minister tweeted: "Last time our capital experienced anything like this was in 1941 when it was attacked by Nazi Germany.

"Ukraine defeated that evil and will defeat this one”
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❌Russia has banned British airlines from landing at its airports or crossing its airspace.

The move follows the UK's ban on flights operated by Russian flag carrier Aeroflot
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🚨The Russians seized Chernobyl as a blackmail tactic to use against the West, an adviser to the Ukrainian president has warned.

Chernobyl is located next to the most direct route from Belarus to Kyiv
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🔴Reports that the Ukrainian military has delivered a strike on a Russian airfield in Millerovo, Rostov Oblast have now been confirmed.

A number of Russian aircrafts have been destroyed
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🗣️Ukraine's chief of staff said that Russia is using the Gomel airfield in Belarus to line up troops ready to assault Kyiv, due to damage to the Hostomel military airport
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❌Russian forces have captured Zmiinyi Island in the Black Sea, also known as Snake Island.

An audio recording revealed the last words Ukrainian soldiers said to the Russian warship which demanded their surrender👇
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🇺🇦Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded with the international community for assistance and vowed to stay in the capital despite being Russia's "number one target."

“I will stay in the capital. My family is also in Ukraine”
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🚨The 2022 Champions League final has been switched to Paris after Uefa stripped Russia of hosting rights due to the Ukraine crisis
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🔴Ukrainians slept in bomb shelters and metro stations overnight as Russian attacks on the capital continued
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🇺🇦The Ukrainian ministry of defence has called for as many citizens as possible to sign up for the armed forces to protect the country from the Russian military.

"Bring only your passport and identification number. There are no age restrictions"
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🚨Gunfire has been heard in central Kyiv near government buildings amid reports that Russian troops have entered the city
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🔴NEW: Chernobyl radiation levels have risen after being seized by Russia

Ukraine's nuclear energy regulatory agency said that higher than usual gamma radiation levels were detected, but did not provide exact radiation levels
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✍️Putin's full military assault to occupy and install a puppet regime in his Western neighbour is likely to transform and define European geo-politics for years to come, just as the original Cold War did, writes @benfarmerDT
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🚨Kyiv is bracing itself for an attack.

The Russian forces who have reportedly entered the city are believed to be centred around the northern district of Obolon, a heavily residential area just 9km north of Kyiv's parliament and city centre
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🔴There are reports of heavy fighting in the Obolon district northwestern Kyiv, in what appears to be a gun battle between Russian tanks and Ukrainian fighters.

One video posted online from that area shows a truck plowing into a civilian vehicle
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🚨The UN Human Rights Office said it has received reports of at least 127 civilian casualties in Ukraine, including 25 people killed and 102 injured, as a result of 'shelling and airstrikes'.

They said this number is likely to be an under-estimate
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🇺🇦A total of 10,624 Ukrainians entered Romania through its six border checkpoints on Thursday, the Romanian interior minister Lucian Bode said.

A UN refugee agency spokesperson said that at least 100,000 people had been uprooted in Ukraine
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🗣️James Heappey, the Defence Minister, has said that Britain and Nato must not play an active role in the Ukraine conflict because of the grave "risk of miscalculation"
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🚨The Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called on Putin to sit down for talks to stop the war.

"I would like to address the president of Russia once again: Fighting is happening all over Ukraine. Let's sit down for talks to stop deaths"
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
So far today:

🔴Ukrainian civilians told to make Molotov cocktails

🔴Russian troops advance on Kyiv

🔴Zelensky pleads for assistance
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🇹🇷Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Nato and the EU of failing to take a "determined stance" on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Mr Erdogan said: "Nato should have taken a more decisive step
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Pope Francis visited the Russian embassy to "express his concern" over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Vatican has said

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📷 Ukrainians flee to Eastern European neighbours for safety

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Vladimir Putin has indicated that Russia might launch talks with Ukraine amid the invasion.

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🗣️The Mayor of Kyiv, Vitalii Klichko, has said the capital “has entered a defensive phase” and that “the enemy [Russia] wants to bring the city to its knees and annihilate us”
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🔴Ukraine's foreign minister has confirmed that Russian military shells have hit a kindergarten and an orphanage.

Dmytro Kuleba said the attacks constitute "war crimes and violations of the Rome Statute"
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🚨Russian military forces have taken control of the strategic Hostomel airfield near Kyiv, and have landed paratroopers in the area.

Moscow's defence ministry also said Russian forces have blocked the Ukrainian city of Chernihiv
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
❌Manchester United have ended their sponsorship deal with the Russian airline Aeroflot following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

The deal is worth £8 million a year
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🔴The Kremlin has signalled that Vladimir Putin is prepared to send delegation to Minsk, Belarus for talks with Ukraine
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🇺🇦The Ukrainian defence ministry has said more than 1,000 Russian soldiers have been killed so far during the conflict
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🔴The Ukrainian government's call for citizens to prepare homemade defences and enlist in the armed forces if they are able, appears to have struck a chord.

Kyiv residents can be seen in video footage collating weapons and preparing defences
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A Royal Navy destroyer has set sail for the Mediterranean to support Nato countries in eastern Europe.

HMS Diamond left Portsmouth Naval Base on Friday, ready to join the offshore patrol vessel HMS Trent in the eastern Mediterranean
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Russians have compared their president to the leader of Nazi Germany, scrawling “Adolf Putin” across buildings in protest against the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine
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🇺🇦Ukraine's forces have put up stiff resistance in the face of the Russian advance, despite being significantly outgunned and outnumbered.

As a result, the MoD said it was “unlikely that Russia has achieved its planned Day one military objectives”
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚨The Russian military says it has taken control of a strategic airport just outside the Ukrainian capital and cut Kyiv off from the West
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🚨Moldova's national naval agency says a ship in "neutral waters" of the Black Sea has been hit by a missile, leaving two crew members seriously injured
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🔴Prime Minister Boris Johnson has urged more support for Ukraine as a matter of "the greatest urgency" in a meeting with a group that includes the Baltic states

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Jessica TAYLOR / UK PARLIAMENT / AFP
📸People wait to board an evacuation train from Kyiv to Lviv at Kyiv central train station

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… REUTERS/UMIT BEKTAS
🔴The European Union will accept all people fleeing the violence caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… BEATA ZAWRZEL/ANADOLU AGENCY VIA GETTY IMAGES
🔴The EU has agreed to freeze European assets linked to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images
🔴Russian forces have lost about 2,800 servicemen and 80 tanks during their assault on Ukraine, Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Malyar said on Friday

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… REUTERS/Michele Tantussi
🔴Vadym Prystaiko, Ukraine's Ambassador to London, confirmed the anti-tank weaponry provided by the UK had been used to help the state defend itself against Russian forces.

Read @SheridanDani's report 👇

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🔴Vladimir Putin urges Ukrainian army to overthrow Kyiv government

Follow live Ukraine invasion updates 👇

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🔴Iceland and Estonia have joined the Netherlands in calling for Russia to be excluded from this year's Eurovision Song Contest over its invasion of Ukraine.

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🔴Ukraine's western city of Lviv has introduced a curfew, the Interfax Ukraine news agency reported on Friday, citing a city official

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🔴Ukrainian guards fired warning shots to prevent a stampede at Kyiv's central railway station on Friday as thousands of people tried to force their way onto evacuation trains

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📸Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in pictures

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ICYMI: The Telegraph's @SheridanDani, @FrancisDearnley and @OliviaUtley discussed the latest updates from Ukraine on this Twitter Space

🎧Listen back here 👇

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🔴British foreign minister Liz Truss told her Chinese counterpart she expected Beijing to stand up for Ukraine's sovereignty

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🔴Britain said on Friday that Russian armoured forces had opened a new route of advance towards Kyiv, and that the bulk of troops remained more than 50km from the centre of the city

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🔴Russia has been suspended from the Council of Europe following its invasion of Ukraine, Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio said on Friday

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At least 50,000 Ukrainians have crossed into neighbouring European countries, including 30,000 in Poland and 17,500 in Moldova, according to the UNHCR.

Read the full report by @Harrietmbarber 👇

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📸Telegraph photographer's dispatch from Ukraine ⬇️

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🔴The Defence Secretary could have used "similar adjectives" to describe Boris Johnson when he told troops that Vladimir Putin had gone "full tonto", a Russian official has said

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🔴The UK is sending further armed forces to Estonia "earlier than planned" to reinforce our Nato ally - but the defence minister James Heappey has warned against moving into Ukraine

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🚨No Russian act will perform in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, the European Broadcasting Union has announced

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🔴The EU will analyse shortly the consequences of cutting Russia off from the SWIFT international payments system before deciding whether to use the "financial nuclear weapon", France's finance minister said

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… JOHN MACDOUGALL/AFP via Getty Images
🔴Russia is facing more resistance than Moscow anticipated in its invasion of Ukraine, a senior US defense official said on Friday

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images
🔴Chechnya's strongman leader has said he has 70,000 Chechens ready to fight for Russia as he called on Ukraine's president to apologise to Vladimir Putin, @benfarmerDT reports

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Ukraine has accused Moscow of "war crimes" after an attack on a kindergarten and orphanage in a town close to the Russian border, @Barnes_Joe reports

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@Barnes_Joe 🔴Ukraine's health minister has accused Russian troops of firing on ambulances in the Zaporizhzhya and Chernihiv regions.

Viktor Lyashko told Ukrainian TV Russian forces also opened fire in a psychiatric hospital in Chernihiv

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🔴Footage filmed by @Telegraph shows the reality for Ukrainian soldiers on the front line.

@RolandOliphant describes the scene of a bloody battle in eastern Ukraine

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🔴Russian authorities have announced the "partial restriction" of access to Facebook over the platform's restrictions on Kremlin-backed media

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🚨EU approves Russian asset freeze that includes Putin and Lavrov

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🔴Ukraine's presidential adviser said on Friday the country had kept control of territory attacked by Russian forces

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🔴Ukraine's forces have put up stiff resistance in the face of the Russian advance, despite being significantly outgunned and outnumbered.

Read the full report ⬇️

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Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has taken to the streets of Kyiv, despite being Russia's "number one target"

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… HANDOUT/UKRAINE PRESIDENCY/AFP via Getty Images
❌Russia will be barred from competing in this year’s Eurovision Song Contest following its invasion of Ukraine, organisers have announced.

Read the full report by @OliviaRudgard here 👇

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🔴Moscow correspondent @Nat_Vasilyeva was detained as she covered Russian opposition to the invasion of Ukraine

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🔴NEW: Volodymyr Zelensky takes to the streets of Kyiv to rally citizens

Follow live Ukraine invasion updates ⬇️

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🔴Ukraine-Russia evening briefing:

❌Mayor of Kyiv: Russia wants to 'bring the city to its knees'
❌Kyiv braces for attack
❌Putin calls on Ukrainian army to launch coup
❌Refugees will be accepted by EU
❌Moscow indicates willingness to talks

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🚨Ukraine's foreign minister says Russia plans false flag operation to 'dehumanise' Ukrainians

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images
🔴The UK has urged Nato leaders to use SWIFT to hurt Russia

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🇫🇷🇺🇦The Eiffel Tower lit up on Friday in the national blue-and-yellow colours of Ukraine at the request of Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… THOMAS COEX/AFP via Getty Images
🚨EU places Putin on sanctions list after Ukraine invasion

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images
"Vladimir Putin’s murderous assault on the people of Ukraine is a threat to peace and security worldwide" | ✍️Julian Jessop

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🔴UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Friday that more than $1 billion will be needed for aid operations in Ukraine over the next three months

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🔴The Ukrainian president has taken to the streets of Kyiv to rally his people against the Russian invasion

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Latest from @JamesERothwell who is on the ground in Kyiv

🔴Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says that five explosions were heard within the space of five minutes near a power station

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🔴Greek embassy staff are leaving Kyiv, Nikos Dendias has said, but consulates in Mariupol and Odessa will remain open
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🔴The Russian assault on Ukraine was more brutal today, but Moscow's forces did not advance as planned and Ukrainian officials are gathering evidence for possible war crimes prosecution, Ukrainian Ambassador to Washington Oksana Markarova said
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The Russian advance in Ukraine has stalled and achieved none of its first day objectives, according to Western security officials.

Read the full report from @DomNicholls and @Josiensor here 👇

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🔴Polish defence minister says convoy of ammunition moving from Poland across the border into Ukraine.

"We support Ukrainians, we stand in solidarity and we firmly oppose Russian aggression," said Mariusz Blaszczak

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In order to protect Kyiv residents, a blackout may be enforced, it is being reported.

A curfew is now in place and people are being told to seek shelter

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🗣️"The people of Russia are not our enemy, we hold President Putin and his cronies accountable for this war, not them," says US State Department spokesman Ned Price

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🔴Russian troops have stopped near the northeast city of Konotop after suffering heavy losses during a fight, Ukraine's land forces said

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🔴The United States on Friday dismissed Russia's offer of talks with Ukraine, and called on Moscow to show its commitment to diplomacy by withdrawing troops from the country

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📸Ukrainians take up arms ⬇️

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… BRENDAN HOFFMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES
🚨The US will place sanctions on Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov, his foreign minister, the White House has announced.

The move follows the same action by the UK and EU

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🔴At the press briefing, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki said the US was open to accepting refugees from Ukraine

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🔴Moscow says its relations with the West were close to a "point of no return" after several countries imposed sweeping sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202… Russian Foreign Ministry\\TASS via Getty Images
🔴A spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Ukraine and Russia are discussing a place and time for talks with Russia

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Oleksandr Bilyy, a 39-year-old delivery driver, was in Glasgow when he heard the news: Russia had invaded his homeland.

“I decided to come back to London, and today, in two hours, I’m going to Ukraine”

Read the full report 👇

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Western leaders fear Vladimir Putin could unleash devastating thermobaric rockets on Ukraine after fierce resistance slowed the Russian army's advance, The Telegraph can disclose

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🚨Explosions rock Kyiv as Vitali Klitschko warns of 'difficult night ahead'

Follow live updates 👇

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@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Three of the “camps” are in the Minsk region, namely the Ostroshitsky Gorodok Sanatorium, the Zubrenok national children’s educational and health centre, and Dubrava children’s camp. The fourth site is the Golden Sands Sanatorium in the Gomel region. Image
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Jun 25, 2023
🔴NEW: Russia coup latest: Wagner forces retreat as Prigozhin faces exile in Belarus

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🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.

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🇷🇺A mutiny that started over differences about how the Kremlin could win the war may end what little chances of victory Russia still has.

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