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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Richard Luscombe and (earlier) Nadeem Badshah, Geneva Abdul, Miranda Bryant and Hannah Ellis-Petersen

Russia bans 963 Americans from country - as it happened

Buses carrying Ukraine forces who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill drive away under escort
Buses carrying Ukraine forces who surrendered at the besieged Azovstal steel mill drive away under escort. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters

This blog is closing now but we will be back in a few hours with more rolling updates on the war in Ukraine.

In the meantime you can read all our coverage of the conflict here.

That’s it from me, Richard Luscombe in the US, for tonight. Thanks for joining me for the last few hours.

I’ll leave you with this latest look at the position in Ukraine from the Observer’s graphics desk, showing the areas of the country where Russia has been advancing, and others where the defenders have been fighting back.

After the reported fall of Mariupol on Friday, Russia appears to be concentrating on Ukraine’s second largest city of Kharkiv, which is under attack from renewed shelling and pushes from Russian troops.

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