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pic. twitter. com/ EQpNBZqzL9— Nabih(@ nabihbulos) February 24, 2022 Advertisement Kharkiv: Hundreds huddle on the train platform, dark subway cars and on the stairwells as the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues.... Some have been here since 4am, most are restless.... pic. twitter. com/ cuxiH4Ei3q— Marcus Yam 文火(@ yamphoto) February 24, 2022 Scenes from the underground train station that also serves as a shelter where hundreds of people have fled into seeking shelter as the Russian invades#

KYIV/ THE HAGUE: Russian forces have taken partial control of a key industrial city in eastern Ukraine, a regional governor said on Tuesday, hours after European Union leaders struck a deal to ban more than two-thirds of Moscow’s oil imports. Severodonetsk is one of several urban hubs that lie on Russia’s path to capturing the Donbas’s Lugansk region, where Moscow has shifted the bulk of its firepower since failing to capture Kyiv in the war’s early stages.“ The situation is extremely complicate

Republican nominee Donald Trump and his running mate, Sen.... Polling, however, shows that Ukrainians are not ready to give up their land, especially among those soldiers in Donbas who have been fighting for it for the past 10 years.“ There would be a coup d’état, because this idea would be promoted by those who sit in peaceful cities.... Her 20-year-old son, Volodymyr, was killed fighting in Avdiivka in March....

24.In Poland meanwhile, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said the U.S. and its European allies would continue to work on strengthening the North Atlantic Treaty Organization after she and a delegation of U.S. lawmakers met Polish President Andrzej Duda. Mrs.... Gladkov said a fire had broken out at a Defense Ministry facility in the region.... One person had been wounded and seven houses damaged in the incident, he said....

Speaking on Ukrainian television, he described the pattern of the battle: several hours of Russian shelling, followed by a push by troops to advance further into the city.“ The smell of corpses is constant, because they do not take away the bodies," Mr.... Still, Russia continued airstrikes elsewhere in Ukraine, an indication that Moscow’s ambitions stretch beyond Donbas. The Sumy and Kharkiv regions, in northern Ukraine, and Kryvyi Rih in the south, were all hit with airstrikes, according to U

“ No one said that the sides have made headway," he said.... He also said that, in a show of good will, Russia would limit its operations near Kyiv. The fighting that began Feb.... Russia’s Defense Ministry said it destroyed Ukrainian military equipment and struck two large warehouses in the Donbas area with short-range ballistic missiles.Mr....

“ It’s like hell there, ” said president Volodymyr Zelensky in a bitter diatribe against Russia’s relentless bombardment of Ukraine’s Donbas on Thursday, which had left the region “ completely destroyed ”.... Mr Zelensky accused Moscow of carrying out “ brutal ” and “ senseless ” attacks as it intensified its offensive in the country’s east following the withdrawal of its troops from the around the country’s capital, Kyiv. Allegations of genocide were also repeated by the Ukrainain president, a