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‘Easier to survive outside cities’: Ukraine's countryside offers safe haven from Russian invasion

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has triggered one of the largest population movements in Europe since World War II. As the Ukrainian army is fortifying the cities, many city dwellers have fled to the countryside, where they have discovered a rural population determined to resist for the long term.

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Young Ukrainian Dancers, Trapped Abroad, Get Paris Residency

The dancers are torn between body and mind — physically on stage in Paris but in spirit back home in Kyiv. In other circumstances, the Kyiv City Ballet's residency at the Théâtre du Chatelet would be a dream come true, but the stranded company of young dancers feels little but…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Kyiv confirms opening of humanitarian corridors in a number of Ukrainian cities

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk confirmed on Wednesday the opening of humanitarian corridors from Enerhodar, Mariupol to Zaporizhia, from Sumy to Poltava and other Ukrainian cities.

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Kyiv’s suburbs now look like the hellscape of Stalingrad – but we still have hope

Two weeks ago the streets of our Ukrainian capital were buzzing with life – now it’s a ghost city where solidarity is helping us survive, says Illia Ponomarenko, defence and security correspondent for the Kyiv Independent

The Guardian - UK

Russia Demands US Explain Alleged Bio Labs with Plague and Anthrax in Ukraine

Russia demanded on Wednesday that the United States explain to the world why it had supported what Moscow cast as a military biological program in Ukraine involving deadly pathogens including plague and anthrax. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova demanded transparency from Washington over the allegation, which is denied by Kyiv…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Chernobyl: Why did Russian troops take control of infamous nuclear disaster site?

Officials say that Moscow now controls area in northern Ukraine after fire fight

The Independent UK

Mother and daughter turned away from UK border after fleeing Ukraine

Alena Semenova, 22, and Tetyana Tsybanyuk, 40, from Kyiv, are trying to reach close friends in Wales after their neighbourhood came under bombardment.

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Croatia legend Darijo Srna explains Ukraine evacuation "chaos" as UEFA chief intervened

Darijo Srna is currently director of football at Shakhtar Donetsk, where he spent much of his playing career, and helped the current squad leave Kyiv after the Russian invasion

Daily Mirror

Young Ukrainian dancers, trapped abroad, get Paris residency

The Kyiv City Ballet danced to a full house in Paris for the last show of a French tour that has left the company stranded after the war broke out in Ukraine

The Independent UK

Ukraine's cultural heritage faces destruction as Russian bombing continues

Ukraine is a country with a vast cultural heritage. It is dotted with sites of profound historic, artistic and archaeological importance – from Unesco world heritage monuments such as the Cathedral of St Sophia in Kyiv to exquisite examples of Cossack baroque architecture. But this rich cultural history is now…

The Conversation

Xi Jinping gambled on a new era with Vladimir Putin. Is Beijing about to pay?

Vladimir Putin set out to restore a cross between the Soviet Union and the Russian Empire. In fact, his botched invasion of Ukraine has revived the West, sprung the EU and Britain into action and unsettled Xi Jinping in China. The only thing that now looks “brain dead”, which is…

Evening Standard

Ayr shop owner's relief as sister and niece, 5, in Ukraine escape underground bunker to safety near Poland

Olga Stewart (Milchenko) described her family fleeing from Kyiv to Lviv as a miracle as her sister and niece await a visa approval to come to Ayrshire.

Daily Record

Why is Nato reluctant to enforce a no-fly zone over Ukraine?

Military alliance wary of provoking wider war with Vladimir Putin’s Russia by deploying peacekeeping planes to shield skies over Kyiv and block air strikes

The Independent UK

Russian bombing of maternity hospital ‘genocide’, says Zelenskiy

Authorities say at least 17 wounded by airstrikes including women in labour as shelling again halts evacuations

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The Independent UK

How big is Ukraine’s air force and what weapons do they have to fight Russia

Ukraine has urged Europe to send more military support amid its fight with Russia

The Independent UK

Ukraine crisis: What are the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics?

Pro-Russian separatist regions declared independence from Kyiv in 2014

Reuters

Ukrainian capital is still supplied with power, heat and water - deputy mayor

Heat, water and power supplies, and phone connections are working normally in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, Deputy Mayor Mykola Povoroznyk said on television on Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Russia claims Ukraine invasion ‘is going to plan’ but wants to ‘achieve resolution peacefully’

British Ministry of Defence intelligence tells a different story of Moscow’s advance being slowed by fiercer resistance than expected from Ukrainians

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Ukraine Says Russia Bombed Children’s Hospital in Besieged Mariupol

Ukraine accused Russia on Wednesday of bombing a children's hospital in the besieged port of Mariupol during an agreed ceasefire to enable civilians trapped in the city to escape. Russia had said it would hold fire to let thousands of civilians flee Mariupol and other besieged cities on Wednesday. But…

The Independent UK

Why has Russia invaded Ukraine? Everything you need to know

UK warns Vladimir Putin ‘bent on full-scale invasion’ of western neighbour

Daily Mirror

Stranded Russian troops face dying in -20C cold as tanks turn into 'iron freezers'

Russian soldiers stuck in Vladimir Putin's 40-mile convoy of tanks and vehicles several miles outside Kyiv face a desolate future as conditions threaten to drop to -20C

The Guardian - UK

History is brutally back, and Ukraine will test Europe’s appetite for the consequences

The EU’s vocation was to tear down walls and promote peace. Should it be a party to a conflict with a nuclear superpower?, says historian Luuk va Middelaar

Evening Standard

Ukrainian girl who melted hearts with rendition of ‘Let It Go’ from bunker escapes to Poland

The girl has managed to escape to Poland after spending six days in a bunker in the capital Kyiv

Chicago Tribune

Commentary: I was born in Kyiv. War is neither a Marvel movie nor a video game

Like you, for the past week I’ve been watching a war.

Axios

Russian forces face fierce resistance in key Ukrainian areas 2 weeks into invasion

Ukrainian air defenses appear to have seen "success against Russia's modern combat aircraft," per a U.K. intelligence update.

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