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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.

Reuters

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.

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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 Independent 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

The Guardian - UK

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.

Al Jazeera

‘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

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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 - UK

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

This live blog has now closed. Follow the latest updates on the Russia-Ukraine war here.

The Guardian - AU

Ukraine’s Mykolaiv morgue struggles with rising number of corpses as shelling intensifies

The southern city of Mykolaiv has been under Russian fire for days as Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces try to gain control of cities on the border of the Black Sea, including the port of Odesa. But Ukrainian resistance has been fierce, with the death toll rising among soldiers and…

France 24

Invaders ‘cannot conquer us’, Zelenskiy says, as 13,000 flee besieged cities – as it happened

Ukraine’s president says the capital will only fall to Russian troops if it is completely destroyed, while Moscow warns western shipments of arms to Ukraine could be attacked

The Guardian - AU

‘We won’t be welcoming the Russians with roses’: Odesa prepares for attack

The port of Odesa in southwestern Ukraine is a prime target for Russia due to its history and strategic position on the Black Sea. As soldiers and volunteers prepare for an assault on the city, even some local figures linked to the underworld have joined the war effort. FRANCE 24’s…

France 24

As Odesa prepares for war, residents are divided over which side to take

Odesa, a Russian-speaking port city in southwest Ukraine and an important strategic target in the Russian military offensive, is preparing for war. Fighting has not yet started in the city but the war is already creating rifts within families and among friends. FRANCE 24’s Gwendoline Debono report

France 24

Fears rise Russia could open southwestern front against Ukraine as invasion stutters

Exclusive: Officials warn of ‘real threat’ that Putin could turn to Russian troops in Kremlin-controlled Transnistria, an unrecognised breakaway state to the west of Ukraine

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Evening Standard

Dispatch from Odesa: Volunteer army prepare courageous defence of the Hero City

Population has rallied with housewives gathering to sew camouflage nets and street workshops springing up to make Molotov cocktails

Evening Standard

Odesa: Ukraine army band play Bobby McFerrin’s hit ‘Don’t Worry be Happy’ at barricades

The video has been liked by thousands of people on Twitter

France 24

Ukrainians pay heavy toll as Russia targets strategic city of Mykolaiv

Mykolaiv, a strategic city close to the southern port of Odesa, has been under intense fire by Russian forces. Some 160 Ukrainian soldiers have been admitted to a local hospital, but most of those wounded and killed are civilians.

The Independent UK

Odesa: The Russian-speaking port defying history to resist Putin’s troops

The city’s ties with Russia stretch back many centuries, to the empress Catherine the Great. But despite these deep-seated connections, the people of Odesa are preparing to meet Putin’s soldiers with fierce resistance

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The Guardian - UK

‘Beyond understanding’: Odesa braced to see if Putin attacks city of such resonance for Russians

Russian warships have been moving ominously in the sea between Odesa and Crimea. Each morning, Odesa’s remaining residents wake up and check their progress

Bangkok Post

Ukraine was experimenting with local democracy

As I write this, Russian troops are moving north through the Odesa oblast, or region, toward the river Kodyma, along which sits a town called Balta.

Los Angeles Times

Russian attacks intensify in Ukraine; Zelenskyy again pleads for no-fly zone

KYIV, Ukraine — With Russian troops besieging cities in Ukraine’s south, spurring a humanitarian catastrophe even as they press their offensive around the capital, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that the strategic coastal city of Odesa would soon be under attack as he again urged Western countries to create a…

Los Angeles Times

Russian attacks intensify in Ukraine; Zelenskyy again pleads for no-fly zone

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine has fastest-growing refugee crisis since second world war, says UN

More than 1.5 million people reportedly crossed into neighbouring countries since Russia invaded

Al Jazeera

Russia planning to bomb port city of Odesa, claims Zelenskyy

No immediate comment by Russian army after Ukraine’s leader says attack on city of 1 million would be ‘war crime’.

Daily Mirror

Mothers cradle hours-old babies in makeshift bomb shelter beneath Ukraine hospital

The heart-breaking footage shows around 50 mothers and their tiny hours-old infants cowering in a makeshift bomb shelter below a maternity hospital in Odesa, Ukraine

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