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The Latest Breaking News from Odesa

Ukraine claims control over Kyiv region as Russia looks east

Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.

Reuters

Missiles hit Ukraine's Odesa region and there are casualties, says governor

Three missiles hit a residential area near the Ukrainian southern port city of Odesa on Friday, the local governor Maksym Marchenko said in a video posted online, adding there were casualties.

Reuters

Bristol business offers displaced Ukraine tech workers employment

Amdaris evacuated its office in Odesa after the Russian invasion in February

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'My personal tragedy': Ukrainians brace for attack on Odesa

The Black Sea port of Odesa is mining its beaches and rushing to defend itself from a Mariupol-style fate

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war updates: Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands Western nations provide more weapons — as it happened

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands Western nations provide more military hardware from their stockpiles, asking if they are afraid of Russia.

ABC News

For Odesa, there's echoes of troubled past as Russian threat moves closer

Odesa has meant romance and terror for as long as I can remember. Now another generation of refugees are fleeing terror — this time from war and occupation, writes Norman Swan.

ABC News

Artist George Butler: ‘I draw what happens at the fringes of atrocity’

As millions fled the conflict in Ukraine, the reportage illustrator felt compelled to travel there. He explains why he wants to depict the human cost of war

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Commentary: A glaring double standard — one for Ukrainian refugees, one for Central Americans

I opened my computer to start Zoom for my class on Indigenous media in Latin America. As I proceeded to take roll, I noticed that my voice began to shake and my eyes were getting red as I looked at myself in the Zoom camera.

Los Angeles Times

‘We just want to stay alive’: Sheltering from Russian bombs in Odesa’s catacombs

Russian forces bombed residential areas in their first attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday. Ukraine fears the city could be the next target of Russia’s offensive in the south. Its inhabitants have found the perfect refuge from Russian bombs – the city's catacombs.

France 24

Fleeing Ukrainian athletes welcomed by clubs in Bosnia, Bulgaria

Sports clubs in Bulgaria and Bosnia are providing refuge, training and competition for athletes escaping war in another show of global solidarity for Ukraine.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin desperately wants to claim the 'pearl of the Black Sea' but Odesa has become a fortress

As Russia's troops approach, the strategically important port city of Odesa is fortifying itself from the inside out, with sandbags lined on its streets and a population devoted to the war effort.

ABC News

Ukraine refuses to surrender besieged city of Mariupol

Mariupol continues to be bombarded by Russian forces, who also reportedly attacked Odesa for the first time.

Al Jazeera

Holocaust survivor Boris Romanchenko is killed in his Kharkiv apartment after it is shot and burns down

A 96-year-old man who had been forced to work underground and on the V-2 rocket by Nazis dies in his home as it is fired upon during a Russian attack, while homes in the Black Sea port city of Odesa are also hit by shelling from the invading forces.

ABC News

Londoner running Ukrainian orphanage evacuates 270 children from Odesa warzone

A Londoner rescuing orphans from the horrors of war in Ukraine has hit out at the British Government for not doing enough to accommodate refugees despite the UK’s relative wealth compared to the war-torn eastern European country’s neighbours.

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Night train to safety: one Ukrainian family's odyssey

Ludmila Lichko wearily cradles her nine-year old son Ivan aboard a crowded train as it pulls out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine says it will never surrender its cities as Odesa reports airstrikes on flats

Russia accused of striking residential areas in what would be first attack on Black Sea port

Reuters

Ukraine's Odesa accuses Russia of attacking city outskirts for the first time

Authorities in Odesa accused Russian forces of carrying out a strike on residential buildings in the outskirts of the Ukrainian city early on Monday, the first such attack on the Black Sea port city.

Reuters

UK says Russian forces still trying to circumvent Mykolaiv

Britain's Defence Ministry said on Sunday that Russian forces advancing from Crimea are still attempting to circumvent Mykolaiv as they look to drive west towards Odesa, adding that these forces have made little progress over the past week.

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Al Jazeera

Mines, sandbags and roadblocks: Odesa fortifies for Russian war

Capturing Ukraine’s third-largest city would effectively cut the rest of the country off from the Black Sea.

The Independent UK

The scramble to shield Ukraine’s cultural heritage

Across the country, artists and curators are desperately unhooking, wrapping and stashing away artwork as Vladimir Putin’s onslaught closes in, report Max Bearak and Isabelle Khurshudyan

The Guardian - UK

‘First you cry, then get used to it’: Ukraine villagers find a kind of refuge in Mykolaiv

Ukraine is holding out in the heavily bombarded port city and even as thousands of people try to leave, others are arriving

Al Jazeera

Russia-Ukraine war: How Moscow’s tactics are evolving in Ukraine

A strategic snapshot of Russia’s shifting tactics in the north, south, east and west of the country.

The Guardian - UK

‘Fortress Odesa’: city falls silent as fearful residents await Russian advance

Ukraine’s historic ‘mother city’, so far undamaged, is bolstering its defences against an expected attack

The Guardian - UK

In Mykolaiv, a city awaiting a siege, it’s clear that all Ukrainians are now people of war

Until last month many were still oblivious to the reality of conflict with Russia. But its ugliness is now inescapable, says Ukrainian journalist Nataliya Gumenyuk

The Guardian - AU

As it happened: Zelenskiy urges Nato to implement no-fly zone

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