📰 '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'.
🇺🇦 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" telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇪🇺 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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🗣️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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🚨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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴A 96-year-old Ukrainian who survived four Nazi concentration camps has been killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇧🇾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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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
🇺🇦The Ukrainian people would need to vote on any potential peace deals agreed with Russia in a referendum, President Zelensky has said telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴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 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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🚨Vladimir Putin could use chemical weapons to break the siege of Mariupol.
Warnings from the US of “clear signs” Russia is considering using chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine have raised the spectre of gas attacks🧵👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
⚠️There are fears Ukraine may soon experience scenes all too familiar from Syria…
…where witnesses described watching helplessly as their loved ones choked to death after chemical weapons were used
🗣️“The thing about Putin is, if he has an instrument, he wants to use it. Why have it if you can’t?” Fiona Hill, the British-born Russia expert and former White House advisor said last month
I’ve been speaking to a dozen female police officers in the last year for a documentary called Bad Apples, writes @cjmcgoogan
They have told me male cops aren’t just assaulting members of the public – but also their own.
🔴Female police officers describe being the target of misogyny from their colleagues along a spectrum from sexist banter to bullying, domestic abuse and sexual assault, including rape
🚢Italy has been urged to seize a superyacht allegedly owned by Vladimir Putin after an investigation by the anti-corruption unit of Alexei Navalny, Russia's jailed opposition leader
🔴 Russian accusations that Kyiv has biological and chemical weapons are false and illustrate that Putin is considering using them himself in his war against Ukraine, the US President has said.
🚢The £500m vessel, called Scheherazade, could be sanctioned as investigation reveals staff are from Russia’s security service twitter.com/i/events/15061…
Key developments from overnight:
🔴Russian forces shell along humanitarian corridor
🔴Zelensky: Ukraine would be 'destroyed' before surrender
🔴For almost a month, the port - its remaining 300,000 population now trapped - has been on the receiving end of a “hellish” Russian bombardment...
...that has flattened much of it and left its remaining residents without water, food and power
The last diplomat to leave said Mariupol could now be added to an unwanted list of cities “destroyed by war” that includes Guernica, Stalingrad and Grozny