Japan and Australia slapped fresh sanctions on Russian entities as punishment for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, which the West says has been stalled by staunch resistance but continues to take a devastating toll on civilians reut.rs/3InvU2F
President Biden will speak with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to discuss Russia's war against Ukraine among other issues, the White House said. Here's what you need to know about the Ukraine crisis right now reut.rs/3idFmeq
Stocks took a breather after several days of sizeable gains, while commodities were set on edge by the lack of progress in Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations reut.rs/37v8KdS
European governments have approached the U.S. government and defense contractors with a shopping list of arms as the Russian invasion of Ukraine drives renewed demand for U.S. weaponry reut.rs/3u6BAJo
Russian missiles struck an area near the airport of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, the mayor said reut.rs/3CRmD1C
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Russian forces in Ukraine are blasting cities and killing civilians but no longer making progress on the ground, Western countries said, as a war Moscow was thought to have hoped to win within days entered its fourth week reut.rs/3wfr4Ci
When headlines flashed on Tuesday morning that the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia were on a train to Kyiv for talks with the Ukrainian president, it was news to some members of their immediate families reut.rs/3Jkkoq9
Russia has set out strict rules for foreigners seeking permits to buy and sell Russian securities and real estate, a client memo by Citigroup showed, as details emerge of new state controls on investment in response to Western sanctions reut.rs/3qctmyi
Deep under the streets of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine hundreds of people are sheltering from fierce Russian bombardment, occupying the Heroiv Pratsi metro station where they do what they can to get comfortable reut.rs/3Ksz3jc 1/6
From tiny babies to the elderly, residents sit or lie on mattresses and blankets arranged on the ground beside ticket machines, on platforms and inside nearby parked trains 2/6
Some look at mobile phones, others do laundry which is dried on handrails of the train. Mothers feed toddlers and a man hurries past with a kettle full of water 3/6
After three weeks of war Russia has failed to reach its stated objectives of disarming the Ukrainian military and ousting democratically elected government, but it has caused thousands of deaths and forced more than two million people to flee the country reut.rs/3i18l58
The World Health Organization advised Ukraine to destroy high-threat pathogens housed in the country's public health laboratories to prevent 'any potential spills' that would spread disease among the population, the agency told Reuters reut.rs/3vXZOI4
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/3t2qhm2
The United States denied renewed Russian accusations that Washington was operating biowarfare labs in Ukraine, calling the claims 'laughable' and suggesting Moscow may be laying the groundwork to use a chemical or biological weapon reut.rs/3MFu54r 1/4
Late on Tuesday, Russia repeated its accusation of several years that the United States is working with Ukrainian laboratories to develop biological weapons. Such assertions in Russian media increased in the run-up to Moscow's military move into Ukraine 2/4
In a statement released on Wednesday, State Department spokesman Ned Price said Russia 'is inventing false pretexts in an attempt to justify its own horrific actions in Ukraine' 3/4
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
Taiwan's military strategists have been studying Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and the country's resistance, for the island's own battle strategy in the event its giant neighbor China ever makes good on its threat to take them by force reut.rs/3I0HO2e 1/6
While Taiwan's government has not reported any unusual activity by the military in China, which views the island as its own territory, Taipei has raised its alert level 2/6
Russia's use of precision missiles, as well as Ukraine's tactically well thought through resistance despite being outmanned and outgunned, are being carefully watched in security circles in Taiwan, whose own forces are likewise dwarfed by China's 3/6