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Russia intensifies shelling of key Ukrainian cities, Western sanctions ramp up, and Putin takes steps to protect Russia's economy

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Former Eastern Bloc nations that are now part of NATO and the EU will gift 70 Russian-made fighter jets to Ukraine

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The ruble stabilizes after its worst plunge on record Monday, while Russia's stock market remains closed for a second day

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"He is inspiring and mobilizing the world in outrage at what is happening" - Boris Johnson praises Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, saying Vladimir Putin has underestimated "unity and resolve" of the West

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Russia's defense minister vows to continue invasion, as the EU seeks to block several Russian banks from SWIFT payment system

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The U.S. and other major economies have reached a deal on a coordinated release of oil stockpiles, according to people familiar with the decision, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine pushed crude above $100 a barrel

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Ukraine's military intelligence service said in a Twitter post that some 300 Belarusian tanks are amassed at the border, and that Belarus may be close to entering the war

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Russia is encountering problems with supplying food and gas to its forces in Ukraine, according to a senior U.S. defense official, who said that morale is also flagging among Russian troops, many of them young conscripts

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LATEST: President Joe Biden held a call with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. The two men spoke for just over 30 minutes, according to a White House official

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EU ambassadors agreed to call for an initial assessment of Ukraine’s chances of joining the bloc. The envoys will ask for an assessment from the European Commission, according to officials who declined to be identified

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NEW: EU ambassadors agreed to exclude seven Russian banks from the SWIFT financial-messaging system but spared the nation’s biggest lender Sberbank and a bank part-owned by Russian gas giant Gazprom

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