The latest on the fourth day of Russia's invasion of #Ukraine from @DaveClark_AFP & Sergey Bobok
▶️ Street fighting rages in Kharkiv
▶️ Russian banks excluded from SWIFT
▶️ 260,000 people flee conflict
▶️ Russia faces stiff resistance in Kyiv u.afp.com/wAWc
@DaveClark_AFP#UPDATE Map of Ukraine locating areas where explosions, strikes and fighting have been reported and under Russian control.
Updated as of 0900 GMT #AFPgraphics@AFP
@DaveClark_AFP VIDEO: Images of empty streets in Kyiv, as a day-and-night curfew has been imposed until Monday morning.
The city authorities said anyone outside would be considered "members of the enemy's sabotage and reconnaissance groups"
@DaveClark_AFP#UPDATE Ukrainian forces have secured full control of Kharkiv following street fighting with Russian troops in the country's second-biggest city, the local governor says
@DaveClark_AFP President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged foreigners to head to Ukrainian embassies worldwide to sign up for an "international brigade" of volunteers to help fight invading Russian forces u.afp.com/wAhW
@DaveClark_AFP#UPDATE Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged anyone interested in joining the international brigade to get in contact with the military attache at their nearest Ukrainian embassy u.afp.com/wAhW
@DaveClark_AFP VIDEO: Russian President Vladimir Putin congratulates members of special forces, saying they are fighting "heroically" in Ukraine
@DaveClark_AFP VIDEO: Smoke billows from an oil depot allegedly targeted overnight by Russian forces in the Ukrainian city of Vasylkiv
@DaveClark_AFP#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his defence chiefs to put the country's "deterrence forces" on high alert as he accused Western countries of taking "unfriendly" steps against his country amid Moscow's invasion of #Ukraine
@DaveClark_AFP#UPDATE Moscow has the world's second-largest arsenal of nuclear weapons and a huge cache of ballistic missiles which form the backbone of the country's deterrence forces u.afp.com/wAhF
@DaveClark_AFP Chart showing estimated atomic warhead inventories by the world's nine-nuclear armed countries, according to data from the Federation of American Scientists
@DaveClark_AFP Maps of Ukraine comparing areas under Russian control as of February 24 to February 26 at 1800 GMT
@DaveClark_AFP There is a sinister sense of paranoia on Kyiv's near deserted streets as the city imposes a military curfew.
And yet @dmitryzaksAFP also notes an odd sense of pride is also filling Kyiv that the city has still not been invaded
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@DaveClark_AFP@dmitryzaksAFP@ArisMessinis VIDEO: On the outskirts of the town of Koryukivka, in the Chernihiv region, people are blocking the movement of Russian soldiers.
Russian soldiers reportedly stopped to ask for directions and were surrounded by locals to prevent them from moving towards Kyiv
BREAKING France's high-speed train system disrupted by vandalism: operator
#UPDATE Hours before the opening ceremony of the Paris #Olympics , France's high-speed rail network has been hit by "malicious acts" including arson attacks that have disrupted the transport system, train operator SNCF says.
"This is a massive attack on a large scale to paralyse the TGV network," SNCF told @AFP, adding that many routes will have to be cancelled and the situation would last "at least all weekend while repairs are conducted"
BREAKING The arson attacks on France's high-speed rail network were coordinated acts of "sabotage", a source close to the investigation tells @AFP
#BREAKING 104 police, 30 journalists among injured in Bangladesh clashes: TV
#UPDATE Protesters in Bangladesh set fire to several government buildings during a day of deadly nationwide clashes between students and riot officers, a police statement said.
"The miscreants have already torched, vandalised and carried out destructive activities," on the offices of state broadcaster BTV and the national disaster management agency along with "various" police and government buildings, said the statement, issued after a nationwide internet shutdown
Bangladesh wakes to torched government buildings, internet blackout.
This week's unrest has killed at least 39 people including 32 on Thursday, with the toll expected to rise further after reports of clashes in nearly half of the country's 64 districts
#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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