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
‘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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Russia said it had detained a citizen of Uzbekistan who had confessed to planting and detonating a bomb that killed Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov in Moscow a day earlier on the instructions of Ukraine's security service 1/9 reut.rs/41Yg643
Kirillov, who was chief of Russia's Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection Troops, was killed outside his apartment building along with his assistant when a bomb hidden in an electric scooter went off 2/9reut.rs/3ZJSX2s
Ukraine's SBU intelligence service, which accused Kirillov of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops, something Moscow denies, took responsibility for the killing 3/9
Firefighters in Malibu, California, are making some progress in containing a raging wildfire, but it continues to threaten several structures and force residents to flee 1/6
The Franklin Fire is burning in the steep, rugged terrain northwest of Los Angeles 2/6 reut.rs/4ffSWsO
No deaths or injuries from the wildfire have been reported. Officials say the cause remains unknown. Anthony Marrone, Los Angeles County Fire Chief gave an update ⬇️ 3/6
Syrians awakened to a hopeful if uncertain future, after rebels seized the capital Damascus and President Bashar al-Assad fled to Russia, following 13 years of civil war and more than 50 years of his family's brutal rule 1/10 reut.rs/4iojhYr
The lightning advance of a militia alliance spearheaded by Hayat al-Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate, marked one of the biggest turning points for the Middle East in generation 2/10
Moscow gave asylum to Assad and his family, Russian media reported and Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's ambassador to international organizations in Vienna, said on his Telegram channel 3/10
Russian presidential aircraft and funds were used in a program that took children from occupied Ukrainian territories, stripped them of Ukrainian identity and placed them with Russian families, according to a report by Yale's School of Public Health 1/6reut.rs/3CR1mcs
The US State Department-backed research identified 314 Ukrainian children taken to Russia in the early months of the war in Ukraine as part of what it says was a systematic, Kremlin-funded program to 'Russify' them 2/6
In March 2023, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his child rights' commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, for the alleged war crime of deportation of Ukrainian children 3/6reut.rs/3B1oKUi
World leaders rushed to congratulate Republican Donald Trump after he claimed victory over Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, which would cap a stunning political comeback four years after he left the White House reut.rs/3NY78vo
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy: 'I appreciate President Trump’s commitment to the “peace through strength” approach in global affairs. This is exactly the principle that can practically bring just peace in Ukraine closer' reut.rs/3UHeXcp
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: 'Congratulations on history's greatest comeback! Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America' reut.rs/4fhyxEs
The US Justice Department has opened 12 investigations into possible civil rights abuses by police departments since Democratic President Joe Biden took office, but has not secured even one binding settlement to implement reforms in any of them 1/9 reut.rs/40mKyni
After winning office following a wave of mass protests in 2020 over police killings of Black people, the Biden administration highlighted 'pattern or practice' investigations of alleged systematic civil rights violations by state or local police as critical to police reform 2/9
Attorney General Merrick Garland got off to a swift start, in April 2021 launching investigations into the Minneapolis and Louisville police departments, which became the focus of widespread protests after white police officers killed George Floyd and Breonna Taylor 3/9