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Russia may have invaded Ukraine on February 24, but President Vladimir Putin has insisted that his troops are carrying out a "special military operation" ...

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The successful evacuation comes as Russian forces launch a renewed attack on the Azovstal plant, where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering with the ...

She said that after a week, none of the refugees there “are even close to the end of the program.” “These figures are not final, “ the office said in an online statement. In the next 10 days the government will also need to define “additional criteria” for classifying transactions that could be subject to restrictions. A senior U.S. official warned that Russia is planning to annex much of the country’s east later this month. Ukraine has warned of Russian groups, some posing as Ukrainian soldiers, trying to disrupt military efforts since the conflict began. The Azov Battalion is a volunteer force with neo-Nazi roots that is widely considered one of the country’s most capable units. It has been under renewed attack from the Russian military, with Ukrainian forces saying a "powerful assault" was underway. The rest were empty, said Maidenyuk, 40, the mother of Vova Maidenyuk, 14. Concerns about the war’s decreasing the availability of food and increasing prices have sparked fears of increasing hunger and starvation in other countries. The camp has been open only a week, and 50 to 100 people are arriving every day. "We will continue to do everything possible to get all of our people from Mariupol, from Azovstal," he said on Telegram. "It is difficult. It comes as Russian forces launch a renewed attack on the Azovstal plant, where hundreds of civilians have been sheltering for weeks with Mariupol's last Ukrainian defenders.

France's Emmanuel Macron urges the Russian president to restart evacuation efforts at the Azovstal plant in Ukraine.

Missile strikes hit Ukraine's infrastructure, including railways and power stations, as Russia targets the east.

I have one mission: to help.” The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other allies. They see “information” on her green vest at the train station in the western city of Lviv and ask questions: How to get to Poland? Where is the bomb shelter? A sweeping majority of Americans support increased sanctions against Russia, according to a Post-ABC News poll published Monday. On Monday, the CIA published instructions for how Russians can covertly volunteer information using an encrypted conduit to the agency’s website. But by a different measure of underlying profit, which doesn’t include the write-down, the British company’s net profit swelled to $6.2 billion, helped along by what the company called “exceptional” oil and gas trading. Yet despite their ties to Putin and standing within Russia, many of them had been moving their wealth out of the country for years, documents show. The invasion was a “necessary measure,” Putin told the group, according to news agencies. This is despite Russia “struggling to break through Ukrainian defenses and build momentum,” Britain said. It was not clear whether the men were speaking freely; the video appeared to have been filmed in detention. The proposal must still be approved by member states but could be formally adopted as soon as the end of the week, according to diplomats and officials. The first evacuees from the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol have reached Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian-held city about 140 miles to the northwest, where they described the horrors of the long Russian siege they endured in underground bunkers.

'If people are critical of Putin and if they begin to voice that, then that is a worry for Putin'

He’s upset the oligarchs which used to be one of his power bases. They have just been really quiet recently – but, insofar as they remain within the system, that is maybe a glimmer of hope,” adds Dr Noble. And that might lead to worries about loyalty. In fact, the Kremlin has played on this worry that a Russia without Putin may be much worse. They say: ‘Look, you might not like Putin, but at least you know what you’ve got’ – that is, that people wouldn’t necessarily actively support Putin but the known bad person is better than the unknown.” “But this, of course, is not to suggest that Putin should be supported as the lesser of two evils.

Evacuations from the Azovstal steel plant come as Moscow prepares to annex Ukrainian territory, including Donetsk, Luhansk and Kherson.

A draft is expected to be circulated to member states on Tuesday and debated by E.U. ambassadors on Wednesday, with a formal agreement possible this week. Odessa: A rocket was fired at one of the city’s “infrastructure facilities,” said regional governor Maksym Marchenko in a Telegram post. Kherson: Moscow appears to have instituted an Internet blackout in this Russian-occupied southern city in a bid to consolidate political control. Officials reiterated Monday that bodies were found with tied hands and feet, and shots to the head. Some Ukrainian soldiers remain there at a steel plant, holed up with civilians who began to leave the factory this weekend. Russian state media reported in March that her detention had been extended to May 19. Ukrainians fleeing Mariupol and Russian-occupied territories arrived Monday in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, recounting long journeys. The diplomat added that Russia’s war in Ukraine was a brutal form of annihilation and “not a kindergarten.” But Zelensky shut the door on Steinmeier, telling him not to come because the German president, who formerly served as foreign minister, had previously fostered close relations between Berlin and Moscow. Moscow is preparing to annex vast new swaths of Ukrainian territory — the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, along with the southern city of Kherson — in the coming days, U.S. intelligence indicates. Ukrainian forces have pushed back Russian troops and maintained “dominance” of Kharkiv, a battered city about 25 miles from the Russian border, the Pentagon said. Personnel from the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross were escorting evacuees from the plant, where a regional office said some 200 civilians, including about 20 children, remain trapped.

Fighting. Belarusian armed forces began surprise large-scale drills on Wednesday to test their combat readiness, the defence ministry of Ukraine's neighbour ...

- Australia has moved to further sanction more than 70 Russian politicians and more than 30 “puppet” Ukrainian government officials installed in the separatist regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. - A convoy of buses left Mariupol on Wednesday in a new attempt by Ukraine, the UN and the International Committee of the Red Cross to evacuate civilians from the southern Ukrainian city, the regional governor said. - Russia has deployed 22 battalion tactical groups near Ukraine’s eastern city of Izium in an apparent effort to advance along the northern axis of the Donbas region and capture the cities of Kramatorsk and Severodonetsk, the UK said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told French counterpart Emmanuel Macron Tuesday the West must stop supplying weapons to Ukraine and accused Kyiv of not ...

Macron for his part, according to the Kremlin, said global food security was under threat due to the Ukraine conflict. "The Russian side is still open to dialogue," the Russian leader told Macron, according to the Kremlin readout. Putin also said Kyiv was not being consistent or ready for "serious work" on ending the conflict.