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#BREAKING Ukrainian officials confirm Russia's capture of southern city Kherson

#BREAKING One million refugees fled Ukraine in week since Russia's invasion: UNHCR

#UPDATE Russian forces have taken over the Ukrainian city of Kherson, local officials confirm, the first major urban centre to fall since Moscow invaded a week ago.

"The (Russian) occupiers are in all parts of the city and are very dangerous," Gennady Lakhuta writes on Telegram

#UPDATE One million refugees have fled Ukraine in the week since Russia's invasion, UN refugee agency says.

"In just seven days we have witnessed the exodus of one million refugees from Ukraine to neighbouring countries," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi tweets

Offering shelter.

@AFP's Tobias Schwarz photographs people offering rooms for Ukrainian refugees as they arrive at Berlin’s main train station on March 2

'Cruellest day': Alarm at civilian toll from Russian invasion.

The bombardment of Ukraine cities raises fears of a brutal escalation in the week-old conflict

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VIDEO: In a Ukranian church, prayers for peace and donations for war.

A historic Greek-Orthodox church in the city of Lviv has allocated space for a memorial to fallen soldiers in the war with Russia and also collects donations for those currently fighting on the front line