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Ukrainian tennis star says leaving family behind was 'horrible' as he joins fight

Sergei Stakhovsky retired from tennis following the Australian Open in January, and now finds himself in Kyiv preparing for war in Ukraine. He said he knows how to use a gun

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2022

'We are in dark times': what is it like for Ukrainians in Australia watching their country at war?

Last Friday afternoon, I received a phone call from my mother in Ukraine. It was 5am Kyiv time and I heard her voice tremble as she told me, “Putin announced an invasion – I can hear bombing!”.

The Conversation · Mar 1, 2022

War in Ukraine: What if the Russians are against it?

The situation in Ukraine is the focus of the world's media. The shelling of Kharkiv has been condemned as a war crime by the EU's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell. There has been damage across the whole of Ukraine, but the next phase of the Russian operation is expected to…

France 24 · Mar 1, 2022

Ukraine Appeals for More Help from Israel, Which Eyes Ties to Moscow

The Ukrainian envoy to Israel tearfully implored it to provide more war aid on Tuesday even as Prime Minister Naftali Bennett defended his government's open channels to both Kyiv and Moscow as a means of offering "quiet" help. While the Israeli foreign minister has condemned the Russian invasion, Bennett's rhetoric…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Mar 1, 2022

'We're united in shame as we watch Kyiv burn - it's impossible to switch off'

Polly Hudson says she feels powerless and deeply uncomfortable carrying on as normal, while families in Ukraine flee for their lives. And there's only one thing she can do

Daily Mirror · Mar 1, 2022

VIDEO: Shock As Russia Bombs Kharkiv Council Building

Large Russian military convoy approaching Kyiv as war with Ukraine escalates. 

Zenger · Mar 1, 2022

Israel's Yad Vashem condemns Russian strike near Kyiv Holocaust monument

Israel's Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre voiced its "vehement condemnation" of a Russian attack on Tuesday near a Kyiv monument to Babyn Yar, site of a World War Two massacre of Jews by German occupation troops and Ukrainian auxiliaries.

Reuters · Mar 1, 2022

Holidaymakers warned Russia's invasion of Ukraine could affect international travel

The world was sent into shock last week as Russian President Vladimir Putin sent his troops into Ukraine towards its capital Kyiv

Irish Mirror · Mar 1, 2022

One is Russian, the other Ukrainian. They dance together in Philadelphia Ballet

PHILADELPHIA — As Russian forces were closing in on Kyiv last Thursday, Oksana Maslova, a Philadelphia Ballet dancer from Ukraine, was exchanging text messages with friends and family nearly 5,000 miles away. Her mother, who had gone to Kyiv to be with Maslova's sister, spent the previous two nights in…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Mar 1, 2022

‘We need to impose sanctions on Belarus too,’ says Latvian FM Edgars Rinkevics

Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkēvičs told FRANCE 24 in an interview from the Latvian capital Riga on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is seeking to install a puppet regime in Kyiv. But, Rinkevics said, he believes such a plan "will fail", as the Kremlin doesn’t have the military capacity…

France 24 · Mar 1, 2022