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Russia-Ukraine war: March 13 updates ⤵️

Ukrainian Presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak says Kyiv is already effectively “under siege” as Ukraine's army and volunteers prepare to defend the city, street by street.

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“It’s hard to see why the UK thinks it’s special."

The UK's ruling Conservative government comes in for criticism for dragging its feet over Europe’s biggest refugee crisis in decades ⤵️ aje.io/rz2agc

As the Russia-Ukraine war enters its 18th day, we map who controls which cities and regions ⤵️

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Russian troops have launched multiple air raids on a large Ukrainian military facility outside the western city of Lviv near the Polish border, say Ukrainian officials ⤵️ aje.io/kjqqd7

Russian natural gas company Gazprom has said that it was continuing gas shipments via Ukraine.

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Pope Francis has issued his toughest condemnation yet of the war in Ukraine, saying the “unacceptable armed aggression” must stop.

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Nearly 125,000 civilians have been evacuated through safe-passage corridors in one day according to Ukraine's president Zelenskyy.

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“It is hard. Hard to leave my hometown under fire.”

As intense fighting rages outside Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, people are fleeing the Russian advance.

An American journalist Brent Renaud, has been shot dead and another wounded in Irpin, a northwest suburb of Kyiv.

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2,187 residents have been killed since the start of Russia’s invasion on February 24, says the city council of besieged Mariupol.

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Al Jazeera’s @stepvaessen has asked Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the mental strain he’s under after more than two weeks of war.

He took questions from journalists in a secure compound in Kyiv ⬇️

@stepvaessen More than 750 people have been arrested in cities across Russia for protesting against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, which is now in its third week aje.io/q98ndx

@stepvaessen Power has been restored to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which means cooling systems can operate normally, says Ukraine’s atomic energy ministry.

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@stepvaessen Talks between Russia and Ukraine will resume on Monday, reports RIA news agency.

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@stepvaessen Russia says it is banking on China’s help to withstand the crippling economic sanctions placed by Western nations over the war in Ukraine aje.io/y52whe

“A worst-case scenario.”

Mariupol city council says more than 2,000 people have been killed since the city was besieged by Russian forces aje.io/jj5qs9