#AFPGraphics map of Ukraine locating its six sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list
'Kamikaze drones'
#AFPGraphics factfile on the US Switchblades or "kamikaze drones," to be sent by US to Ukraine
#BREAKING Russian forces strike Lviv airport area in west Ukraine: mayor
#UPDATE Russian forces have struck an area around Lviv's airport in Ukraine, Mayor Andriy Sadovyi says.
Sadovyi could not give a precise address but says "it's definitely not an airport", as grey smoke streams across the sky and ambulances and police vehicles race to the scene
VIDEO: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky visits patients at a hospital in Vorzel in the Kyiv region that came under fire during its evacuation.
At the hospital, Zelensky spoke with injured Kyiv residents and the driver of US journalist Brent Renaud who was killed in Irpin
#BREAKING Fighting in Mariupol city centre: Russian defence ministry
VIDEO: Odessa transforms into a fortress in preparation for Russian attack.
The city known as "the pearl of the Black Sea" is still at peace but ready for war -- oscillating between anxious expectation of a Russian attack and the redolence of early spring
As the conflict in #Ukraine rages, residents of a region in northern #Poland that will house a US missile facility worry they could become Russian targets in case of a wider conflict u.afp.com/wmY8#Redzikowo
#BREAKING More than 2 million Ukraine refugees in Poland: border guards
#BREAKING Putin accuses Ukraine of stalling talks, says Moscow ready to search for 'solutions': Kremlin after Putin call with Germany's Scholz
#BREAKING Norway boosts military spending by over 300 million euros: minister
#BREAKING Top sports court CAS upholds FIFA ban on Russia taking part in playoffs for 2022 World Cup finals #AFPSports
#BREAKING Bulgaria expels 10 Russian diplomats: official
#UPDATE The International Monetary Fund, World Bank and other top global lenders on Friday warned of "extensive" economic fallout from the #Ukraine war and expressed their horror at the "devastating human catastrophe" in the country u.afp.com/wmdn
#BREAKING Baltic countries expel 10 Russian diplomats: official
#UPDATE Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Friday announced the expulsion of 10 Russian diplomats over the invasion of #Ukraine, prompting Moscow to say it would respond in kind u.afp.com/wmmj
📷 File pic shows Latvia's Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics
#UPDATE Ukraine on Friday said "hundreds" of civilians were trapped in the wreckage of a theatre bombed by Russia, as the United States demanded China get tough with its "war criminal" allies in the Kremlin u.afp.com/wmsT
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#BREAKING One badly wounded, no dead in #Mariupol theatre strike: city hall
#BREAKING Putin accuses Ukraine of 'war crimes' in Macron call: Kremlin
#UPDATE A Russian strike on a theatre sheltering civilians in #Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol badly wounded one person but did not kill anyone, authorities said Friday, as deadly fighting raged on elsewhere across the country
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#BREAKING China's President Xi tells Biden during video call conflicts between states 'in no-one's interest': state TV
#BREAKING President Xi says China-US should 'shoulder international responsibilities' for peace: state TV
#UPDATE Chinese leader Xi Jinping said war is "in no one's interest" during a phone call on Friday with Joe Biden in which the US president aimed to pressure Beijing into joining Western condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine u.afp.com/wmmn
#BREAKING Russian-European Mars mission suspended over Ukraine war: ESA
#BREAKING At least 21 dead after Russian shelling of east Ukraine town: local officials
#BREAKING Ukraine asks Turkey to guarantee any deal with Russia, along with UN Security Council's five permanent members and Germany: Turkish foreign minister
#BREAKING Biden to speak Friday with Xi about issues including Ukraine war: White House
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden will speak on Friday with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping about issues including Russia's war in Ukraine, the White House said u.afp.com/wmqn
#BREAKING Biden will warn Xi of retaliation if Beijing provides military aid to Russia: Blinken