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Russia-Ukraine war: 12 March updates ⤵️

Air raids sound across major Ukrainian cities, as Kyiv braces for an all-out assault and the US tightens sanctions on Russia.

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Ukraine accuses Russian forces of abducting Melitopol mayor aje.io/4usbar

Moscow also opens criminal case into Instagram’s owner, Meta, for allowing posts calling for violence against Russian forces ⤵️ aje.io/ykbgvp

Footage captured by journalists shows Ukrainian soldiers coordinating an operation on the front lines, battling to push back Russian forces ⤵️

As the world’s second-largest arms exporter, we look at the weapons Russia sells aje.io/69fh3m

What do we know about Ukraine’s use of Turkish Bayraktar drones? aje.io/b9mhz7

Russia is prepared to resume arms control talks with the US if Washington is, says Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.

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Russia shells mosque in Mariupol housing more than 80 adults and children, says Ukraine’s foreign ministry aje.io/ve6b9n

"We believe that risk is worth taking right now."

The US and NATO rush shoulder-fired missiles to Ukraine aje.io/kx2u5r

Belarus has said it is deploying five combat units to its southern border to prevent “nationalist armed formations” from Ukraine from entering the country.

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Russian forces have captured the eastern outskirts of the besieged city of Mariupol, says Ukraine’s military.

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“Around 1,300” Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia invasion, says President Zelensky.

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Analysts say Russia’s treatment of Crimean Tatars indicates likely tactics towards dissent in newly-seized Ukrainian territories aje.io/8xcarj

Germany will take in 2,500 refugees who have fled to Moldova from Ukraine, says Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

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Which companies have left Russia so far?

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Ukraine’s intelligence service accused Russia of firing at a convoy that was evacuating women and children from the village of Peremoha in the Kyiv region, killing seven people including one child.

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Ukraine’s capital Kyiv is braced for an all-out Russian assault as fighting intensified on the outskirts of the city aje.io/h8yp8t