After failing to reach besieged Mariupol, a Red Cross convoy was able to rescue hundreds of evacuees from the city who fled to other Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine, @AFP journalist on the scene reports
VIDEO: A Red Cross convoy evacuating civilians from southeast Ukraine reaches Zaporizhzhia.
The ICRC has had difficulties operating in the country, with one of its teams detained for a few days after trying to get to Mariupol to help provide safe passage for civilians
VIDEO: Aerial shots show extent of destruction in Moshchun, near Ukraine's capital Kyiv.
The village of Moshchun was the site of heavy fighting before Russian forces retreated on March 21. Aerial images show the extent of the destruction
#BREAKING Ukraine FM tells NATO allies to give Kyiv all the weapons 'it needs'
#UPDATE Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba calls on NATO to provide Kyiv with all the weaponry it needs to fight Russia.
"My agenda is very simple. It has only three items on it. Its weapons, weapons, and weapons," Kuleba says at NATO headquarters in Brussels
VIDEO: White House imposes sanctions on two daughters of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki says US has "seen a pattern" where Putin and Russian oligarchs "stash assets and resources in the bank accounts of their family members"
#BREAKING Shell says to write off up to $5 billion on Russia exit
#UPDATE British energy giant Shell says it will write off up to $5 billion (4.6 billion euros) on its exit from Russia, following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Shell said on March 8 it will withdraw from Russian gas and oil and immediately stop purchases of its crude
#BREAKING Kyiv accuses Hungary of 'helping Putin' in war against Ukraine, 'destroying unity in the EU'
#BREAKING France summons Russian ambassador over 'obscene and provocative' Bucha tweet: foreign minister
VIDEO: 🇺🇦 Ukraine's foreign minister calls on NATO members to provide Kyiv with all the weaponry it needs to fight Russia.
"My agenda is very simple. It has only three items on it. It's weapons, weapons, and weapons," Dmytro #Kuleba told journalists in Brussels Thursday
#BREAKING Ukrainian official warns residents of 'last chance' to flee Russian attacks in eastern Lugansk region
#UPDATE Ukrainian officials in the country's eastern Lugansk and Donetsk regions urged residents on Thursday to take their "last chance" to flee mounting Russian attacks, after devastation around the capital Kyiv shocked the world ▶️ u.afp.com/whSa
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub