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The Latest Breaking News from Kyiv

Scotland answers Kyiv’s call as 3,000 sandbags are dispatched to Ukraine

The bags were donated by Falkirk Council after an appeal from the Ukrainian capital to its twin city, Edinburgh.

The Independent UK

Russian forces will have to be ‘psychologically rebuilt’ before launching another major attack

Russian forces have lost so many men in Ukraine their soldiers will have to be psychologically rebuilt before launching another major attack, Western officials said on Wednesday.

Evening Standard

Czech Republic becomes first Nato country to send tanks to Ukraine

Reported shipment comes weeks after Kyiv’s first request for tanks and planes

The Independent UK

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Turkey hopes Ukraine, Russia peace talks can continue

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday that civilian killings in Ukraine had made peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv more difficult but that he expected more negotiations, possibly eventually between foreign ministers.

Reuters

Russian troops accused of blocking rescue of Ukrainian civilians trapped beneath rubble in Borodyanka

Hundreds of residents in the heavily shelled town near Kyiv remain beneath the wreckage, authorities fear

The Independent UK

Moscow says Bucha accusations meant to derail peace talks, justify more sanctions

Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday that images of dead bodies strewn across the Ukrainian town of Bucha, which Russia says were staged, were designed to justify more sanctions against Moscow and derail peace talks with Kyiv.

Reuters

Russia's denial of responsibility for atrocities in Bucha recalls 50 years of lies over the Katyn massacre

Ukrainian troops entering the city of Bucha, 25km north-west of the capital Kyiv, have reportedly found evidence of what appear to be horrific war crimes committed during the month-long occupation by Russian forces. Having forced the Russian troops out of the area, any jubilation at the victory was cut short…

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French priest renowned for uncovering massacres warns of ‘Buchas everywhere’

Over the past two decades, Father Patrick Desbois, a French Catholic priest, has been identifying World War II atrocity sites, uncovering evidence of overlooked massacres. After doing similar work with the Yazidi victims of the Islamic State (IS) group in Iraq and Syria, he is now back in Ukraine, collecting…

France 24

More sanctions on Russia on tap as Zelenskyy warns of new hardships

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces Wednesday carried out punishing strikes against key Ukrainian cities, brushing aside mounting world outrage over the execution-style killings of civilians even as Washington and its Western allies prepared to impose tighter new sanctions against Moscow.

Los Angeles Times

Volodymyr Zelensky silences Irish parliament all the way from Ukraine

Politicians pledged solidarity with the people of Kyiv, Mariupol, Bucha and a host of other war-torn towns.

The Independent UK

Russia hit with new round of U.S. sanctions as Biden decries 'major war crimes'

The United States targeted Russian banks and elites with a new round of sanctions on Wednesday, including banning Americans from investing in Russia, in response to what President Joe Biden condemned as "major war crimes" by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Reuters

Germany is in confidential talks over Ukraine guarantees - Scholz

Germany is in confidential discussions with Kyiv about possible security guarantees it could offer Ukraine to ensure its safety after Russia's invasion, Chancellor Olaf Scholz told the Bundestag.

Reuters

'Putin will be gone soon': Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev

Exiled Russian dissident Ilya Ponomarev gave an interview to FRANCE 24 from Kyiv. The former Russian lawmaker was the only member of the Douma to vote against the annexation of Crimea back in 2014 and now lives in Ukraine. He predicted that "Putin will be gone soon", arguing that the…

France 24

Kremlin says peace talks with Ukraine not progressing rapidly enough

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv were not progressing as rapidly or energetically as it would like.

Reuters

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Nottingham Post

Ukraine mum wrote contact details on two-year-old daughter’s back as they fled Kyiv

Ms Makoviy recalled the morning she took the photo – as Russian forces made their way over the border

The Independent UK

More Western sanctions to hit Russia after Bucha killings

The United States, United Kingdom and the European Union are set Wednesday to impose new punishing sanctions targeting Russia including a ban on all new investment in the country after evidence of torture and killings emerged in recent days from a town outside of Kyiv

Daily Mirror

Sajid Javid raises fears of genocide in Ukraine and warns 'mass murder' must be stopped

Sajid Javid expressed horror at the atrocities uncovered as Russian forces withdrew from towns around Kyiv and compared the scenes to the Srebrenica massacre in 1995

Reuters

How war in Ukraine ends matters, says EU foreign policy chief

The European Union wants the war in Ukraine to end as soon as possible, but how that happens is important too, its chief diplomat said on Wednesday, calling for the bloc to send more arms to Kyiv.

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Chicago Tribune

Editorial: The carnage in Bucha was evil. Its architect, Vladimir Putin, must be held accountable

The images bring to mind Srebrenica, the Bosnian town where Serb troops tortured and summarily executed thousands of Bosnians, mostly men and boys, in 1995. The international community branded that horrible chapter of the Bosnian war as genocide, and it’s with the specter of Srebrenica that the world now must…

ABC News

Former Hillsong pastors say they were threatened by Brian Houston to hand over their church and assets

Zhenya and Vera Kasevich, who led the congregations of Hillsong Kyiv and Moscow, accuse Brian Houston and Hillsong's general manager of sending threatening emails during a dispute over the transfer of their church and its assets to Hillsong Australia.

The Independent UK

Russia's failure to take down Kyiv was a defeat for the ages

Kyiv was a Russian defeat for the ages

The Independent UK

Killing of Ukrainian civilians could bring new sanctions

Police and other investigators are out in the silent streets of ruined towns around Ukraine’s capital

Los Angeles Times

Bucha isn’t just a graveyard of Ukrainian dead, it’s a cemetery of Russian weapons

BUCHA, Ukraine — The corpses, charred and partially dismembered, lay scattered amid a pile of trash in a lot along the edges of a forest. Tattered remnants of clothing clung to shreds of skin. Who was a man, who was a woman, who was an adult, who a child —…

Bangkok Post

Ukraine update: US to send more javelins; Zelenskiy rebukes UN

The United States and allies are poised to announce new sanctions, including a ban on all new investments in Russia, to punish the Kremlin for alleged atrocities against civilians committed by its forces in Ukraine.

Los Angeles Times

In fiery speech, Ukraine's Zelenskyy implores UN Security Council to hold Russia to account

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in an impassioned address to the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday, likened Russian atrocities in his homeland to Nazi war crimes, calling for Nuremberg-style tribunals to hold Moscow accountable.

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