A Russian attack on a TV tower in Kyiv Tuesday killed five people, Ukrainian officials said, and a Russian rocket strike on a local administration building in the city of Kharkiv killed at least 10 civilians. A Russian military convoy stretching more than 60 kilometres and headed toward Ukraine’s capital is making little progress, a senior US defence official said, partly due to ‘logistics’ challenges. Read about the day's events as they unfolded on our page below.
- On the sixth day of the war, Russian troops are pushing deeper into Ukrainian territory, advancing on the capital and setting up checkpoints outside some towns and cities.
- A senior US defence official said a Russian military convoy stretching more than 60 kilometres that is headed toward Kyiv is making little progress, in part due to ‘logistics and sustainment’ challenges.
- Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a decree banning cash exports of foreign currency exceeding $10,000 that takes effect Tuesday, the Kremlin said in a statement.
- Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, was shelled Tuesday morning, killing at least ten civilians.
- The strategic southern port city of Mariupol was without power after heavy shelling.
- The Russian army on Tuesday reached the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson near Crimea and is setting up checkpoints on the city’s outskirts, said its mayor.
- In the northeastern town of Okhtyka, nearly 70 Ukrainian servicemen were killed in a Russian shelling on Monday, according to the regional governor.
- Russian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, an ally of Putin, on Tuesday said two Chechen fighters were killed and six wounded in his first casualty report in the war.
- The International Court of Justice will begin public hearings concerning a suit Kyiv filed against Russia over Moscow’s claim it invaded Ukraine to prevent a genocide against Ukraine's Russian-speaking population on March 7.
- The International Criminal Court plans to open an investigation into Russia's invasion of Ukraine and alleged war crimes committed there.
- Kyiv says 352 civilians have been killed, including 14 children, since the invasion began last Thursday.
- The UN refugee agency says more than 660,000 refugees have now fled Ukraine for neighbouring countries.
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