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Moscow faced increasing isolation as President Vladimir Putin showed no sign of stopping his invasion of Ukraine, where fierce fighting and Russian bombardment have killed dozens and sparked a refugee crisis reut.rs/3K68QH2
Here's what you need to know about the Ukraine crisis right now reut.rs/3C1Ienz
Markets were steady, after days of volatility with Asian shares edging up and gold slipping slightly as investors watched the conflict in Ukraine unfold, and weighed its economic implications reut.rs/3sr9DMG
More Western companies are expected to pull out of Russia, as corporations and investors across industries follow the lead of energy firms BP and Shell that abandoned multi-billion-dollar positions there reut.rs/3suFBaV
Graphic: Tracking Russia’s invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3HxN3WZ
‘Mama this is so hard’: Ukraine's U.N. Ambassador reads out final messages between a fallen Russian soldier and his mother
Airlines are bracing for potentially lengthy blockages of key east-west flight corridors after the European Union and Moscow issued tit-for-tat airspace bans and Washington did not rule out similar action reut.rs/3tlBn4s
In pictures: Ukrainians flee Russian invasion
TikTok war: Here is how Russia's invasion of Ukraine played to social media's youngest audience reut.rs/3ssMzx6
Amid Russian invasion and the COVID-19 pandemic, fears of a wider public health crisis are growing in Ukraine as people flee their homes and supplies fail to reach the needy reut.rs/3ti3odp
In pictures: Inside the battle for Ukraine reut.rs/35mHEVz
‘Over the last 24 hours nearly 100,000 people crossed the Polish-Ukrainian border,’ a Polish deputy interior minister said reut.rs/3KmDKLx
‘They used the vacuum bomb today. The devastation that Russia is trying to inflict on Ukraine is large,’ Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S. said, as they accused Russia of using weapons that have been condemned by a variety of international organizations reut.rs/3pm8XGv
Kharkiv region head Oleg Synegubov said that Russian missile attacks hit the centre of Ukraine's second-largest city, including residential areas and the regional administration building, as Moscow started day six of its invasion reut.rs/3ppGAHe
Two busloads of Ukrainians fleeing the Russian invasion arrived in Athens, Greece reut.rs/3hqsdhN
Lviv residents in western Ukraine say they are determined to repel the Russian invasion and help the army and refugees
Australia has committed $50 million to fund lethal defensive weapons for Ukraine, including missiles and ammunition, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said reut.rs/3C5PajS
The moment dozens of diplomats from the European Union and United States walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during the annual U.N. Human Rights Council session, nearly a week since Moscow unleashed its war on Ukraine reut.rs/3MephCK
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that Vladimir Putin ‘is prepared to use barbaric and indiscriminate tactics against innocent civilians’ in Ukraine, but stressed he was convinced the Russian president ‘will fail’ reut.rs/3sujUaX
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged the EU via video link during an emergency session of the European Parliament to 'prove that you are with us' in Ukraine's war with Russia, a day after Kyiv officially asked to join the bloc reut.rs/3HAWvsy
Ukrainian journalist Daria Kaleniuk broke down as she challenged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson about the current sanctions imposed on Russia and the lack of a NATO’s military response reut.rs/3HwFekg
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a Geneva disarmament meeting via video link that Ukraine has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a ‘real danger’ that needed a Russian response reut.rs/342ghQ2
Video shows severe damage in the center of Kharkiv after Russian troops fired artillery at Ukraine's second-largest city reut.rs/3C17MkU
Russian forces have attacked a television tower in Ukraine's capital Kyiv, potentially disrupting its signal, Ukrainian Interior Ministry adviser Anton Herashchenko says
A translator got emotional during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s speech to the European Parliament as he spoke via video link from Kyiv during an emergency session in Brussels reut.rs/3hrnIU0
The streets of central Kyiv lay almost deserted with residents ordered to stay in shelters. With an armored column miles long bearing down on the Ukrainian capital, Russia warned Kyiv residents to flee their homes reut.rs/3MaTrHb

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