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Food supply fears as Biden plans to warn Chinese president against providing military support for Russia.

Kyiv city administration said 222 people had been killed in the city since Russia’s invasion began on 24 February, including 60 civilians and four children. In the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s state emergency service said a multistorey teaching building had been shelled on Friday morning, killing one person, wounding 11 and trapping one other in the rubble. Shells were said to have struck the eastern city of Kramatorsk, killing two people and wounding six.

'People are coming out alive,' Ukrainian member of parliament says as rescue effort continues at Mariupol theatre that President Volodymyr Zelensky says was hit ...

- Twenty-one people have been killed by Russian artillery that destroyed a school and a community centre in Merefa, near the northeast city of Kharkiv, officials said. The death toll remains unknown, though Ukraine has said thousands of civilians have died. - In the north, at least 53 people were brought to morgues over the past 24 hours in the city of Chernihiv, killed amid heavy Russian airtrikes, artillery bombardment and ground fire, local governor Viacheslav Chaus told Ukrainian TV on Thursday. Ukraine's emergency services said a mother, father and three of their children, including three-year-old twins, were killed when a Chernihiv hostel was shelled. "I consider it the right way." "The city has never known such nightmarish, colossal losses and destruction," he said. There was no word on casualties in that strike. A fire broke out early Thursday after the building was hit by the remnants of a downed Russian rocket, killing one person and injuring at least three others, according to emergency services. Russian attacks have battered cities and villages across large parts of Ukraine, including the capital, Kyiv, where residents have been huddling in homes and shelters. He said displacement and overcrowding caused by people fleeing fighting are likely to increase the risks of diseases such as COVID-19, measles, pneumonia and polio. "Only by a miracle there were no casualties," Zelensky said. More than a day after the airstrike, there were no reports of deaths. Ukraine's ombudswoman, Ludmyla Denisova, said on the Telegram messaging app that the shelter had held up.

According to the ministry of economics, annual inflation jumped to 12.5% as of March 11 from 10.4% the previous week.

US fast-food franchise McDonald’s lamented the fallout for about 62,000 people employed at 850 restaurants in Russia before halting its operations on March 8. Two of her friends, she said, were considering going to Finland to get needed medication. He also said in a Twitter post that sugar could not be found in many shops. The official Rosstat statistics agency said on Wednesday inflation was 2.1 percent between March 5-11, the second-highest weekly figure in more than 20 years. According to the ministry of economics, annual inflation jumped to 12.5 percent as of March 11 from 10.4 percent the previous week. According to the ministry of economics, annual inflation jumped to 12.5% as of March 11 from 10.4% the previous week.

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The RCMP said in a statement that it was a “difficult decision” to suspend the training mission and confirmed local staff will not be paid after March 31. RBI has said in recent weeks that it was pulling corporate support for its operations there and redirecting any profits from that business to the United Nations’ refugee agency. Information about victims is still being clarified,” the city council said in an online statement about Wednesday’s incident. It was also to this newspaper that he reached out again late this week to express his anger and sadness at the invasion of Ukraine by the deadly war machine of Vladimir Putin. Undersecretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo told the UN Security Council Thursday that “international humanitarian law is crystal clear” in prohibiting direct attacks on civilians in military operations and ensuring their protection. RCMP Superintendent Bruce Prange, the officer in charge of the training program, expressed support for his Ukrainian colleagues in the “battle against Russia.” However, he then informed them that the program was being suspended and that they would no longer get a paycheque after March 31. “We know if Russia really cared about humanitarian crises, the one that it created, it could simply stop its attacks on the people of Ukraine,” she said. I was honestly hurt,” analyst Kateryna Sapsai said in a Zoom interview from Kyiv on Thursday before the RCMP reversal. “The two leaders will discuss managing the competition between the two countries as well as Russia’s war against Ukraine and other issues of mutual concern.” He said Russia has the might to put its enemies in their place. “This is an illegal war,” Schwarzenegger said, looking straight into the camera while seated at a desk in a study. That is why I have to tell you the truth.

President Joe Biden labeled Russian President Vladimir Putin "a war criminal" on Wednesday, and matched his rhetoric with a promise of fresh military support for Kyiv after its leader pleaded with the United States and its allies to do more to help his ...

For the adults however, she said that "it's hard just to understand that we do not know the future, and this is the worst." The fate of those three areas is likely to prove a key sticking point in negotiations. “The Government will not tolerate Russian oligarchs and other corrupt elites abusing British courts to muzzle those who shine a light on their wrongdoing,” he said. Griner, a center for the WNBA’s Phoenix Mercury, has played in Russia in the winter for the last seven years. Ukraine's armed forces "continue to heroically hold the defense of Mariupol and repel the enemy's attacks, which outnumbers," it said. Blinken said Russia has been attacking civilian sites, including, in this week alone, a hospital, three schools and a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. Since the war began, Americans and other supporters of Ukraine have been looking for ways to financially support Ukrainian refugees, as well as those still in the country. After 16 days under the Russian blockade, the situation in Mariupol is "critical," it said. The service, which works by beaming signals from a fleet of low-orbit satellites to dishes connected to internet routers, is designed primarily for use in rural areas. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday that Russia has been attacking civilian sites, including, in this week alone, a hospital, three schools and a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Luhansk region. The bill would revoke Russia’s “most favored nation” status in the World Trade Organization and pave the way for President Joe Biden to introduce higher tariffs on Russian goods such as steel, aluminum and plywood. It did not turn into one of more mass graves," Ukraine's representative to the United Nations, Sergiy Kyslytsya, said Thursday.

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Australia broadened its sanctions against Russia on Friday to include 11 additional banks and government entities, as well as billionaires Oleg Deripaska and Viktor Vekselberg.\n\nAustralian Foreign Minister Marise Payne said the majority of Russia's banking assets were now covered by sanctions, as were all of the entities that handle Russia's sovereign debt.\n\nAdded to Australia's sanctions list were the Russian National Wealth Fund and the its finance ministry, meaning Australia has now targeted all Russian government entities responsible for issuing and managing sovereign debt, Ms. Payne said. Although, "neither Lamesa Holdings nor Mr. Vekselberg are a party to the Beetaloo Basin joint venture" and neither have any direct involvement in the business, it said.

More than 7000 Russian troops have been killed in less than three weeks of fighting, according to conservative U.S. estimates.

He’s been backed into a corner and will continue to throw troops at the problem.” The news of the generals’ deaths is trickling out, first from Ukrainians, then confirmed by NATO officials, with one death acknowledged by Mr. Putin in a speech. Two American military officials said that many Russian generals are talking on unsecured phones and radios. Pentagon officials say that a high, and rising, number of war dead can destroy the will to continue fighting. Russians themselves may be hearing only what Mr. Putin wants them to hear about his “operation” in Ukraine, which he refuses to call a war or an invasion. With more than 150,000 Russian troops now involved in the war in Ukraine, Russian casualties, when including the estimated 14,000 to 21,000 injured, are near that level. President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said this week that an estimated 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in the war. “They told Putin what he wanted to hear” about how the invasion would progress. “I don’t think it’ll have an impact on Putin’s calculus,” Mr. Crow said. Late last week, Russian news sources reported that Mr. Putin had put two of his top intelligence officials under house arrest. Someone’s got to drive, someone’s got to shoot.” Pentagon officials say a 10 percent casualty rate, including dead and wounded, for a single unit renders it unable to carry out combat-related tasks.

Survivors have begun to emerge from the basement of a theatre hit by a Russian airstrike in the besieged southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, officials said ...

The US president, Joe Biden, will speak with the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, on Friday to discuss Russia’s war against Ukraine “and other issues of mutual concern”, the White House said. Ukraine had accused Russia of kidnapping Ivan Fedorov last Friday,with surveillance footage appearing to show himbeing marched across a square in the city centre, apparently surrounded by Russian soldiers. Oleksii Reznikov, who has been leading the Ukrainian delegation in the negotiations,said technical work was progressingbut that Russia had to stop its shelling for any compromise to be possible. But western officials have warned there remains a “very big gap” betweenUkraineand Russia in peace talks between the two nations. Hundreds of people were hiding beneath the theatre, which was designated as a shelter for displaced civilians,when it was struck on Wednesday. Authorities said it was not known if there were injuries or deaths among those inside. It said10 people were in critical condition.

Ukrainians describe anger and frustration as they try to communicate invasion's reality to relatives across the border.

Lutsevych says there is a very strong sense of ‘we will not forget’ in Ukraine, a determination that when the bombs have stopped falling, war crimes must be punished and people held accountable. I’m really disappointed that she believes the president instead of me.” Russians and Ukrainians living in other countries also feel infuriated with the denialism that seems to have infected their relatives. But Russian TV was showing webcam videos from days earlier and was telling people that everything was normal in Kharkiv. My grandmother started to cry. “It was an attractive place for people who wanted to make a career. About half of Ukrainians – more than 20 million people – have family in Russia, according to a 2011 survey which also found that a third of Ukrainians had friends or acquaintances there. Natalia Ivanivna has Russian parents and grandparents, so when the 62-year-old accountant had to flee Kharkiv earlier this month for a village in western Ukraine, there were plenty of relatives whom she wanted to alert. “She used to only watch Russian television,” Kryvosheyeva says, “and when the war started I noticed she was very calm. I say OK, but why are Russians hitting us if it’s all about America? She says Ukrainians have been so cruel to people in the Donbas. “I can’t speak with her,” says the 34-year-old Russian who moved to Ukraine 10 years ago. It’s the same for Natasha Henova. She has already fled her home near Kharkiv with her young sons and husband, as the bombs crept ever closer to their village. The military onslaught is not just demolishing residential buildings and city centres in Ukraine; it is sorely testing myriad familial cross-border ties that have endured for decades, centuries even.

Officials say it is 'impossible to determine' number of victims due to shelling as Russia denies carrying out an attack.

US President Joe Biden later announced the US will be sending more anti-aircraft, anti-armour weapons and drones and called Putin a “war criminal” while talking to reporters. We will never forgive this,” the Mariupol City Council said in a Telegram post. Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, reporting from Kyiv, said countries that refuse to abide by court orders can be referred to the United Nations Security Council, where Russia holds veto power. The latest attacks came as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine entered its fourth week. Another horrendous war crime in Mariupol. Massive Russian attack on the Drama Theater where hundreds of innocent civilians were hiding. It provided no evidence to support the allegation. Videos of the pool facility showed windows, doors and the roof blown out. He accused the West of trying to “squeeze us, to put pressure on us, to turn us into a weak, dependent country”. “It is impossible to find words to describe the level of cynicism and cruelty, with which Russian invaders are destroying peaceful residents of a Ukrainian city by the sea,” it added. Satellite images of the theatre on March 14, shared by private satellite company Maxar, showed the words “children” clearly etched out in the ground in Russian on either side of the building. Save Mariupol! Stop Russian war criminals!pic.twitter.com/bIQLxe7mli Authorities in Ukraine have accused Russian forces of bombing a theatre as well as a pool facility in the besieged southern city of Mariupol where hundreds of civilians, including pregnant women and children, are said to have taken refuge from the conflict.