🔴 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
The Ukrainian president launched a withering condemnation of the US: "The most powerful country in the world looked on from a distance [as Russia invaded]." #RussiaUkraineWartelegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
As Ukraine fends off explosions and gunfire, the president has appealed for a cease-fire, warning that multiple cities are under attack. #RussiaUkraineWar
Russian troops stormed towards Kyiv this morning, and street fighting has broken out as city officials urge residents to take shelter. #RussiaUkraineConflict#russianinvasion
🔴Western leaders fear Vladimir Putin could unleash devastating thermobaric rockets on Ukraine after fierce resistance slowed the Russian army's advance
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…