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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When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down from his high-rise apartment in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine last week, the street below was clogged with traffic. People hurried along the sidewalks, wheeling suitcases behind them reut.rs/3ItiD9v 1/5
The Ghanaian engineering student went to a window on the other side and discovered why: Russian planes were flying low above the city, trying to evade missiles that rifled through the sky 2/5
As reality dawned, and with nowhere to turn, the 24-year-old, packed a bag and ran to the nearest underground train station for shelter, one of thousands of African students stranded in Ukraine during a Russian invasion, with no idea of how to escape 3/5
Russia's political and economic isolation deepened as its forces met stiff resistance in Ukraine's capital and other cities in the biggest assault on a European state since World War Two reut.rs/3IyjzJR
Here's what you need to know about the Ukraine crisis right now reut.rs/33YJzyZ
Moscow ramped up efforts to control the narrative playing out in news media and on tech platforms, while big tech companies put restrictions on Russia's state-controlled media outlets in Ukraine and around the world reut.rs/3M81kNp
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his military command to put nuclear-armed forces on high alert as Ukrainian fighters defending the city of Kharkiv said they had repelled an attack by invading Russian troops reut.rs/341JY3S
President Vladimir Putin's order to put Russian nuclear forces on high alert is part of a pattern of Moscow manufacturing threats to justify aggression, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said reut.rs/35cgKQh
Two Russian billionaires, Mikhail Fridman and Oleg Deripaska, called for an end to the conflict triggered by President Vladimir Putin's assault on Ukraine, with Fridman calling it a tragedy for both countries' people reut.rs/3plic9W
Ukrainian forces are putting up 'very determined resistance' to Russia's invasion, a U.S. defense official said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy struck a defiant tone on the streets of the capital Kyiv reut.rs/3BX3vyN
Refugees fleeing Russia's invasion of Ukraine poured across its western borders on the third day of fighting, with more than 100,000 reaching Poland so far, many making the final stretch of their journeys to safety on foot reut.rs/33YfnEi
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy welcomed moves to disconnect Russia from 'global financial civilization' in a video message after a French presidential official said EU members were close to agreeing to exclude Russia from the SWIFT payment system reut.rs/3M31Hcd
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed to stay in Kyiv as his troops battled Russian invaders advancing toward the capital in the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two reut.rs/3vw4HrZ
President Joe Biden hit Russia with a wave of sanctions after Moscow invaded Ukraine, measures that impede Russia's ability to do business in major currencies along with sanctions against banks and state-owned enterprises reut.rs/36G5iNd
Former heavyweight boxing champion Vitali Klitschko said he would take up arms alongside his brother and fellow Hall of Famer Wladimir Klitschko to fight in what is a ‘bloody war’ following Russia's invasion of their country Ukraine reut.rs/3MbqM51
Biden has maintained that he will not send U.S. troops to Ukraine. @idreesali114 explains the president's rationale 2/7
How the U.S. acts on Ukraine will affect its relations with Asia-Pacific countries, namely China, Secretary of State Blinken has hinted. @humeyra_pamuk explains his thinking and why the crisis matters thousands of miles away 3/7