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Russia's war in Ukraine entered its third week on Thursday with none of its key objectives reached despite thousands of people killed, more than two million made refugees, and thousands forced to cower in besieged cities under relentless bombardment reut.rs/3vQJiK9

Victoria Zaburyna had urged her 76-year-old mother to flee from Russian forces that now besiege Mariupol in southeastern Ukraine. She replied that the city was still calm and had stayed put reut.rs/3CJd9Wp

Thousands more Ukrainian refugees fled to central and eastern Europe, many with no contacts and nowhere to go, as host countries scrambled to accommodate them reut.rs/3vVhZhJ

The U.S. House of Representatives voted to rush $13.6 billion in aid to Ukraine as it battles invading Russian forces reut.rs/3hUYaPnc

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 told Reuters reut.rs/3w20dJw

Explainer: Massive risks keep talk of Ukraine no-fly zone firmly grounded reut.rs/3hSNpwW

Nestle, Philip Morris and video gamemaker Sony joined the list of multinationals stepping back from Russia as pressure mounts from consumers in the West to take a stand against the invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3vV8Aa2

British foreign minister Liz Truss will call on the West to get tougher with Russian President Vladimir Putin for shattering 'the architecture of global security' over Ukraine and to tighten 'the vice' of sanctions reut.rs/3sXSB9a

Slideshow: Music as an act of defiance as Russian forces advance reut.rs/3ITV4ad

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT – Ukraine accused Russia of bombing a children’s hospital in the besieged city of Mariupol reut.rs/3HScy5D

Tracking sanctions against Russia as it faces deepening isolation and economic turmoil as it continues to be hit with an array of sanctions that effectively cut off Moscow’s major financial institutions from Western markets tmsnrt.rs/35LN10S

In pics: Civilians flee Irpin to escape Russian forces reut.rs/3J5kHF5

The United Kingdom's Defence Ministry said the large Russian column northwest of Kyiv has made little progress in over a week and is suffering continued losses reut.rs/3vUWvBM

The United Kingdom's Defence Ministry said the large Russian column northwest of Kyiv has made little progress in over a week and is suffering continued losses reut.rs/3vUWvBM

Rio Tinto became the first major mining company to announce it was cutting all ties with Russian businesses, joining a raft of leading Western companies in a pullout following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine reut.rs/3vV0HkE

Rich Russians are trying to shift some of their wealth from Europe to Dubai to shield assets from a tightening wave of Western sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine, financial and legal sources said reut.rs/3hTqQbk

Russia will no longer participate in the Council of Europe, the TASS news agency quoted the Russian foreign ministry as saying reut.rs/3KrOEzi

Ukrainian athletes and officials made an appeal for peace at the Beijing Winter Paralympics, unfurling a banner, observing a minute of silence and appealing for an end to the war triggered by Russia's invasion of their country reut.rs/37cWGxL

Unprecedented sanctions against Russia's banks over its invasion of Ukraine are taking a toll on its citizens overseas, who have been left scrambling to find cash or turn to crypto transactions to get by reut.rs/3sY4rQJ

Ukraine and Russia: This is what you need to know right now reut.rs/3MzxLF3

In pictures: Inside Ukraine's Territorial Defence Forces reut.rs/3KxIP3v

The United States is rapidly processing requests from Americans to export firearms and ammunition to Ukraine, the U.S. Commerce Department reut.rs/3J1O4rM

Russia and Belarus are edging close to default given the massive sanctions imposed against their economies by the United States and its allies over the war in Ukraine, the World Bank's chief economist, Carmen Reinhart, told Reuters reut.rs/3hUZZfm

More than 10,000 people were evacuated from villages and cities around Kyiv, regional governor Oleksiy Kuleba said

Britain said it had imposed asset freezes on Chelsea soccer club owner Roman Abramovich and Igor Sechin, the chief executive of Russian oil group Rosneft, plus five other Russian oligarchs reut.rs/3MEeL83

Britain's government said it would enable soccer club Chelsea to continue playing matches after it imposed sanctions on its owner, Roman Abramovich, halting his plan to sell the English Premier League side reut.rs/3J1RoTW

YouTube and Google Play store are suspending all payment-based services in Russia, including subscriptions, as Western sanctions start to pose banking challenges in the country reut.rs/3tNCOZE

In its attack, Russia shifted from strategic strikes against military targets using missiles to a stalled ground attack and, now, a broad siege of major cities. @ReutersGraphics breaks down the weapons and strategies used in Russia's invasion of Ukraine tmsnrt.rs/3J1ZMTr

President Vladimir Putin said that sanctions imposed against Russia would rebound against the West, including in the form of higher food and energy prices, and Moscow would solve its problems and emerge stronger reut.rs/3pUqJkx

Goldman Sachs said it is closing its Russia operations, becoming the first major Wall Street bank to exit following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, 'in compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements' reut.rs/3pPQ52T

Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration continues to assess the risk of possible biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine. Watch the White House briefing: twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Chernobyl plant where they worked as engineers when a reactor exploded in 1986, triggering the world's worst nuclear accident. Now they are trapped again reut.rs/37eoxO5

Disney says it will pause all business in Russia reut.rs/3tLhfsM $DIS

JPMorgan joins Goldman Sachs in unwinding their Russian businesses reut.rs/3I2jcGz

Exclusive: Meta will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy reut.rs/3pVXAoW

Exclusive: Canada is studying ways to increase pipeline utilization to boost crude exports to the U.S., with the aim of helping European countries that phase out imports of Russian oil, the Canadian Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said reut.rs/3i03O2C