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#BREAKING Ukraine's Zelensky, in video, says 'We are all here' in Kyiv

#BREAKING Russian carrier Aeroflot says it will halt flights to London and Dublin

#BREAKING NATO deploying response force units to bolster defences: Stoltenberg

#BREAKING British PM: UK plans 'imminent' sanctions against Putin and Russian FM Lavrov

#BREAKING Putin, Lavrov on EU sanctions list: EU foreign policy chief

#UPDATE NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said Friday the bloc had activated defence plans and "as a result ... are deploying elements of the NATO Response Force on land, at sea and in the air", including thousands more troops and over 100 jets put on high alert in 30 locations

#UPDATE Russian carrier S7 says it is suspending all flights to Europe: agencies

#UPDATE The UK government on Friday ordered all assets of President Vladimir Putin and his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov frozen over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

#BREAKING US to impose sanctions on Putin and Lavrov: W.House

#BREAKING Moscow says sanctions against Putin, Lavrov a sign of Western 'impotency'

#BREAKING Travel ban would be 'part of the US' sanctions on Putin, Lavrov: W.House

#BREAKING Russia says relations with West nearing 'point of no return'

#BREAKING UK says it is banning Russian private jets from airspace, landing

#UPDATE Maria Zakharova, Russia's foreign ministry spokeswoman, told a Russian TV station Friday night that relations with the West "have reached the line after which the point of no return begins"

#BREAKING PM Trudeau announces Canada will sanction Putin and Lavrov, says he supports barring Russia from SWIFT banking system

On the second day of Russia's full-scale invasion, Ukrainian forces fought to defend the capital Kyiv, while many countries implemented personal sanctions against Putin

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