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🔴 What's the latest on #Russias's 🇷🇺 invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦?

➖ 🇺🇦 will evacuate civilians through six "humanitarian corridors" Wednesday
➖ 🇺🇦🇷🇺 will stop firing in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Mariupol from 9 am

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What does it mean to fight in a city that the #Russians 🇷🇺 consider strategic?

"It's okay. I'll get over it," says one of the wounded soldiers. ⤵️

#Poland says they are ready to transfer their fleet of #fighterjets 🛩️ to a #US airbase in #Germany.

But, providing #Ukraine 🇺🇦 with war planes poses serious risks and #NATO does not want direct conflict with #Moscow 🇷🇺 ⤵️

Authorities in #Calais 🇫🇷 say that hundreds of #Ukrainians seeking refuge have been turned away at the #British 🇬🇧 border.

France says that #Britain's policies show a lack of humanity ⤵️

The city of #Mariupol has been trapped for days as #Russian 🇷🇺forces pummel the #Ukrainian 🇺🇦port ⤵️

What is the situation like for #Ukrainian refugees in #Poland 🇵🇱right now?

@MattSaltmarsh, Head of News & Media for UN Refugee Agency speaks to us live from #Warsaw ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh Refugees will be offered primary services such as #education 📚, #healthcare 🏥 and #welfare in #Poland as they arrive from #Ukraine

@MattSaltmarsh The #EU 🇪🇺 says that over two million Ukrainians have fled the #Russian 🇷🇺 invasion.

How does the welcome of #Ukrainian 🇺🇦 refugees compare to that of other crises? ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh What can people do to support #Ukrainian refugees? 🇺🇦

@MattSaltmarsh explains how you can help ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh 🔴 #Russia 🇷🇺 continues its attack on #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 southern city of #Mariupol.

The indiscriminate shelling of residential neighbourhoods continues to attract international condemnation. FRANCE 24's @smougin reports ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin 🔴 #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 President #Zelensky condemns the Russian attack on humanitarian corridors leading away from war torn cities, to the relative safety of #Russia 🇷🇺 and #Belarus 🇧🇾.

"The monsters keep shooting at our evacuation roads" he says ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin Looking for ways to support #Ukrainians 🇺🇦, people around the world are renting #airbnb apartments in #Ukraine ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin 🔴 #Russia's 🇷🇺 new pariah status has precipitated a thaw in #US 🇺🇸 #Venezuela 🇻🇪 relations.

As a first step towards normalising the frosty relationship between the two nations, two Americans were released from Venezuelan custody. FRANCE 24's @WassimCornet ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet 🔴 #Lviv's Art Palace, once the city's cultural heart, has responded to #Russia's 🇷🇺 invasion by taking in those in need, and organising country-wide humanitarian efforts.

FRANCE 24's @LukeShrago reports from #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 western city ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago 🔴 A power-cut at #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 infamous #Chernobyl ☢️ has experts fearing for the containment of the plant.

In response, Ukraine has called for an immediate ceasefire with #Russia 🇷🇺, fearing the consequences of a prolonged power-cut ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago 🔴 #Ukraine 🇺🇦 is increasing its calls for western 🇺🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺🇨🇦 allies to supply it with war planes.

This after a confusing go-between, seeing #Poland 🇵🇱 and the #US make and then withdraw offers of war planes to the war torn country. FRANCE 24's @Sharon_Gaffney reports ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney 🔴 The mayor of #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 capital, #Kyiv, has announced that power, water and heating services all still function despite the #war.

This as many fear the #Russian 🇷🇺 massing at the city's edge may make the supply of public services more precarious ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney Russian bombing has completely destroyed a children's hospital in #Mariupol 🇺🇦, confirmed by the Deputy Prime Minister of #Ukraine Olha Stefanishyna ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney "We are civilians from the territorial defense forces, we're not ready to fight against tanks, but we will fight troops on the ground."

Waiting for combat, these civilians are ready to protect their country ⤵️🇺🇦

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney 🔴 Thousands of unaccompanied children are among those fleeing into neighbouring countries 🇵🇱🇭🇺🇲🇩🇷🇴 from war torn #Ukraine 🇺🇦.

In spite of the welcome they received, the #UN 🇺🇳 still fears that human traffickers may well take advantage of the crisis ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney 🔴 The humanitarian crisis which followed #Russia's 🇷🇺 invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 has caused tension between the #UK 🇬🇧 and #France 🇫🇷 over the former's failure to accept more Ukrainian refugees.

FRANCE 24's @Sharon_Gaffney reports ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney "Odessa is getting ready. People are collecting sand to build up checkpoints all over the city."

@gwendebono reports ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney @gwendebono 🔴 "#Mariupol is still Ukrainian!" says Sergei Orlov, deputy-mayor of the besieged city in southern #Ukraine 🇺🇦.

He says his city will continue to fight back against #Russia 🇷🇺, despite difficult conditions ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney @gwendebono 🔴 Sergei Orlov, deputy-mayor of #Mariupol 🇺🇦, speaking here on the trials and tribulations of life under siege by #Russia 🇷🇺.

He recounts days without water, power or heating, as Russia's war continues ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney @gwendebono 🔴 "People are here to stay and, no matter the cost, they will defend the city".

FRANCE 24's @payenc on the determined effort to defeat #Russia 🇷🇺 in #Ukraine's 🇺🇦 capital #Kyiv ⤵️

@MattSaltmarsh @smougin @WassimCornet @LukeShrago @Sharon_Gaffney @gwendebono @payenc 🔴 #Russia's 🇷🇺 invasion of #Ukraine 🇺🇦 has worsened Europe's already worrying fuel crisis.

FRANCE 24's Bryan Quinn on how countries across the #EU 🇪🇺 plan on handling this latest crisis ⤵️