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Russia said it is ready to provide humanitarian corridors for people fleeing Kyiv and four other Ukrainian cities, as the number of refugees created by the biggest assault on a European country since World War Two surpassed two million reut.rs/3731tBN

McDonald's, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks stopped sales of their best-known products in Russia, offering a united rebuke of the war on Ukraine by companies that define America for much of the world reut.rs/35AI5fj

Britain will phase out imports of Russian oil and oil products by the end of 2022 and consider banning its natural gas, joining other countries, including the United States, in a move to punish Moscow over the invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3MzMG1T

McDonald's temporarily closes its iconic Pushkin Square restaurant reut.rs/3CspM7Z

U.S. President Joe Biden imposed an immediate ban on Russian oil and other energy imports in retaliation for the invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3KxeYZ9

Chinese President Xi Jinping called for 'maximum restraint' in Ukraine and said China is 'pained to see the flames of war reignited in Europe,' state media reported, in his strongest statement to date on the conflict reut.rs/3sU1joN

Russian families fall out over clashing views of war in Ukraine reut.rs/3KuO5oE

McDonald's, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola and Starbucks stopped sales of their best-known products in Russia, offering a united rebuke of the war on Ukraine by companies that define America for much of the world reut.rs/3HWnnUe

The United States rejected a surprise offer by NATO ally Poland to transfer its Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jets to a U.S. base in Germany, as a way to replenish Ukraine's air force in its defense against the invading Russian forces reut.rs/35YZaiH

A large majority of Americans support an end to U.S. imports of Russian energy as a response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite surging gasoline prices, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll reut.rs/3KumCDk

From behind sandbags and anti-tank barriers in front of Odessa’s Opera and Ballet Theatre, a familiar if unexpected melody drifted across the near-deserted streets of Ukraine’s main Black Sea port on Tuesday: 'Don’t Worry, Be Happy' reut.rs/3HWvW1l

Slideshow: Two million people flee Ukraine reut.rs/3tIAALi

Western powers warned Russia against wrecking an almost completed deal on bringing the United States and Iran back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear accord, as Iran's top negotiator was set to return from consultations in Tehran reut.rs/3vRqXfJ

Ukraine and Russia: This is what you need to know right now reut.rs/3sVZ984

In pics: In military fatigues, Ukrainian reservists marry at Kyiv checkpoint reut.rs/3I7RTe1

Britain said Ukraine's air defences were having success against Russian jets, likely preventing Russia from controlling the airspace reut.rs/35Mxiyq

The International Monetary Fund's executive board is poised to approve on Wednesday $1.4 billion in emergency funding for Ukraine to help it respond to Russia's invasion, IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva said reut.rs/3HP2v1b

Makers of everyday staples from Pampers diapers to Dove soap are walking a fine line by continuing to sell their products in Russia, as pressure grows on multinational companies to take a stand against Russia's recent invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3pPFeWE

A superyacht linked to Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich left Barcelona where it had been undergoing repairs in a local shipyard, ship-tracking data showed reut.rs/374EF4E

Anxious Ukrainians, desperately seeking information, recall last words with loved ones in besieged Mariupol reut.rs/3hUYRs1

Russia warned the West that it was working on a broad response to sanctions that would be swift and felt in the West's most sensitive areas reut.rs/3HU6w4s

Coca-Cola and McDonald's are among the latest companies to halt sales in Russia where a senior member of the ruling party has warned that foreign firms which close down could see their operations nationalized reut.rs/3pRSpWZ

Radioactive substances could be released from Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear power plant because it cannot cool spent nuclear fuel after its power connection was severed, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company Energoatom said reut.rs/362R6NO

President Joe Biden's strategy in grappling with the domestic fallout from gas price increases is for Americans to direct their anger at one man: Russian President Vladimir Putin reut.rs/3MFIvSm

Exclusive: France's largest bank BNP Paribas has cut off its Russia-based workforce from its internal computer systems as it seeks to bolster its defenses against any potential cyber attack, a source with direct knowledge of the matter tells @Reuters reut.rs/3sVRgja

NATO's Jens Stoltenberg addresses Ottawa's annual security conference where he talks about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Watch: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and British counterpart Liz Truss speak on the Russian invasion of Ukraine twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks in Berlin at a think tank and discuss Russia's Ukraine invasion twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Ukraine accused Russia of bombing a children’s' hospital in the besieged port of Mariupol during a supposed ceasefire to enable some of the hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the city to escape reut.rs/34tnZTv

White House briefing as Russia accuses the U.S. of waging 'economic war.'
Watch live: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Ukraine evacuated more than 40,000 people in one day on Wednesday but struggled to get civilians away from conflict zones around the cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said reut.rs/3pSgpJE reut.rs/3pSgpJE

Russia's defense ministry acknowledged that some conscripts were taking part in the conflict with Ukraine after President Vladimir Putin denied this on various occasions, saying only professional soldiers and officers had been sent in reut.rs/3MC7vd3

The United States closed the door on supplying combat aircraft to Ukraine, saying that the intelligence community assessed it would be a 'high risk' move that could be mistaken by Russia as an escalatory step reut.rs/36amoTi

The Ukrainian government is preparing for the potential need to move its data and servers abroad if Russia's invading forces push deeper into the country, a senior cybersecurity official tells @Reuters reut.rs/34uukOx

The S&P 500 posted its biggest one-day percentage gain since June 2020, while the Nasdaq tallied its biggest rise since March 2021 reut.rs/360Cmz8

The U.N. nuclear watchdog's systems monitoring nuclear material at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine have stopped transmitting data to its headquarters, it said a day after it reported the same interruption at Chernobyl reut.rs/3I2l9CG