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🔴 Ukraine will not give up the city of Mariupol and lay down arms, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said early on Monday.

Follow the latest updates on our liveblog here 👇
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🇺🇦An agreement has been reached on creating eight humanitarian corridors to evacuate civilians from besieged towns and cities on Monday.

However, the city of Mariupol is not among them, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk has said

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📰 'The world is awaiting the reaction from Russia after Ukraine rejected its ultimatum to give up the besieged city of Mariupol where around 300,000 people remain trapped'.

Here is today's Ukraine-Russia morning briefing 👇
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🇺🇦🇬🇧 Some 9,500 visas have been issued to refugees under the Ukraine Family Scheme, Sajid Javid has said.

The Health Secretary told LBC he expects that "hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians will arrive here in the UK"
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🇷🇺🇪🇺The EU will discuss placing more sanctions on Russia, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said.

This would include further sanctions on the country's energy and oil sector
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🔴 Russia’s attack on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is “a massive war crime”, European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said.

Follow the latest on our liveblog 👇
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🇺🇦 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called on European leaders on Monday to cease all trade with Russia.

He said: "Please do not sponsor the weapons of war of this country, of Russia. No euros for the occupiers"
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🇪🇺 The EU is set to agree a 5,000-strong rapid reaction force.

The new defence strategy is designed to increase the bloc's capacity to act amid the threat from Russia after Moscow invaded Ukraine
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Your Ukraine-Russia lunchtime briefing ⤵️
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🎙️Tune into our daily Ukraine Twitter Space at 1pm

Today @djknowles22 is joined by @venetiarainey and @DomNicholls

Set a reminder here ⤵️
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🔴 925 civilians have been killed so far during the war.

A further 1,496 have been injured according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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ICYMI: The Telegraph's @DomNicholls, @venetiarainey and @djknowles22 discussed the latest updates from #Ukraine on our daily Twitter Space

Listen back here ⤵️
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🔴Russian troops open fire on protesters in occupied city of Kherson.

Video footage shared on social media shows protesters running from the city’s Freedom Square, where Kremlin forces are reported to have opened fire and thrown stun grenades at crowds
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🗣️The Ukrainian defence minister has praised Britain for being among the first countries to provide the country "with serious weapons that have increased our defence capability" amid the war with Russia
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🇷🇺Russia has said it is abandoning peace talks with Japan, which were aimed at signing a formal World War II peace treaty, due to Tokyo's tough response on Ukraine
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🚨Two Associated Press reporters whose images of Mariupol alerted the world to the devastation being wreaked by Russian troops have fled the besieged city after learning they were on a Moscow hitlist
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🔴A 96-year-old Ukrainian who survived four Nazi concentration camps has been killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv
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🇧🇾Belarus may soon attack Ukraine and is preparing to consider allowing Russia to position nuclear weapons in the country, according to a senior Nato intelligence official
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Today's key developments:

🔴Kremlin rules out further peace talks until Zelensky does his ‘homework’

🔴Russian troops open fire on protesters

🔴Marina Ovsyannikova accused of being a British spy

🔴Concentration camp survivor killed in Kharkiv
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🇺🇦The Ukrainian people would need to vote on any potential peace deals agreed with Russia in a referendum, President Zelensky has said
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⚠️Moscow has made thinly veiled threats against Poland with an essay that stressed the two countries’ historic ties and attacked “imbecilic” Polish leaders as “vassals” of the US
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🔴The Pentagon has accused Russian forces of committing war crimes in Ukraine and said it would help to gather evidence of them.

The Pentagon also accused the Kremlin of conducting intentionally indiscriminate attacks as part of the conflict
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Follow the latest on our liveblog here 👇
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🇺🇦Mariupol has refused to wave the white flag.

In a demonstration of astonishing, collective courage, on Monday the besieged city declined to surrender and lay down its arms.

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