Good morning. The impact of the Russian invasions of Ukraine on food prices, combined with cost of living rises, is being felt by Australians as the war enters its 28th day. Families in China are still waiting on information about what caused a plane with 132 people on board to crash.
Russian forces have “kidnapped” more than 2,300 children from the Russian-controlled territories of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts and taken them to Russia, according to the US embassy. Russian forces are now inside the besieged southern city of Mariupol, a senior US defence official said. More than 200,000 people are trapped there and Ukraine’s government has begged Vladimir Putin to let civilians leave the city, where the situation has been described as a “freezing hellscape riddled with dead bodies and destroyed buildings” by Human Rights Watch.
