Again No Relief for Justice With Ag Barr
- Russia claims its forces have captured Kherson, in Ukraine's due south.
- Local government deny Kherson has fallen, merely say Russian troops accept encircled the city.
- Deaths mountain as Russian attacks pound several cities, including northeastern Kharkiv and Mariupol, in the southeast.
- Russia's negotiator says a 2d round of talks will have place on Th, while Ukraine is casting doubt on the plan.
- The UN says more than 870,000 people take fled Ukraine in search of safe in other countries.
- An enormous Russian armed forces convoy is at present about 25km north of the majuscule, Kyiv.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Moscow is aiming to "erase" Ukraine.
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Kherson mayor says Russian troops in the streets
The mayor of the southern Ukrainian port city of Kherson, Igor Kolykhayev said Russian troops were in the streets and had forced their way into the city quango building, the Reuters news agency reported.
Ukraine'south government had earlier played downwardly reports that Kherson had fallen into Russian hands.
Kolykhayev urged Russian soldiers not to shoot at civilians and publicly called on civilians to walk through the streets only in daylight and in ones and twos. "We practise not have the Armed forces in the city, but civilians and people who desire to LIVE here!" he said in a statement.
US envoy cheers states that voted against Russia at UN
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the United Nations, expressed gratitude for the 141 countries that voted in favour of a Un General Assembly resolution that condemned Russia'due south invasion of Ukraine.
"Allow us continue to come up together to support the Ukrainian people and demonstrate the truthful power and true purpose of the Un," Thomas-Greenfield wrote in a tweet.
Let us proceed to come up together to support the Ukrainian people and demonstrate the true power and true purpose of the @UN. Thank you lot to all 141 United nations Member States that made the choice to #StandWithUkraine. https://t.co/zx2yGREywC
— Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield (@USAmbUN) March ii, 2022
US postpones ballistic missile test to avoid escalation: Pentagon
The Pentagon announced that the United states of america postponed an intercontinental ballistic missile test previously set for this week to avert escalation with Russian federation amidst the intensifying crisis.
"In an endeavor to demonstrate that we accept no intention in engaging in any deportment that can exist misunderstood or misconstrued, the decretary of defence force has directed that our Minuteman Iii intercontinental ballistic missile test launch scheduled for this week to be postponed," Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.
"We did not take this decision lightly, simply instead to demonstrate that nosotros are a responsible nuclear power."
Pentagon says Russian advance on Kyiv 'remains stalled'
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the Russian military'southward push towards Kyiv from the n "remains stalled".
"They oasis't – from our all-time estimates – have not fabricated whatever appreciable progress geographically speaking, in the final 24 to 36 hours," Kirby told reporters.
He said the Pentagon believes the advance has slowed down because Russian forces are deliberately regrouping while as well facing unanticipated logistic challenges and experiencing resistance from Ukrainians.
Maternity infirmary, civil infrastructure targeted in Mariupol
The mayor of Ukraine's cardinal southeastern littoral city Mariupol has said Russian forces pummelled the port for hours and were attempting to block civilians from leaving.
Vadym Boichenko said at a news conference that Russian forces hit the metropolis for 14 hours straight. Public transport in the urban center stopped, cut off some districts. Some of the city has had no electricity since Friday afternoon and few shops remained open.
Pavlo Kyrylenko, the caput of the regional military machine administration, said areas with "no military infrastructure" were being targeted, including a maternity infirmary on the urban center's Left Bank.
Georgia to apply 'immediately' for EU membership
Georgia volition "immediately" apply for EU membership, the Black Sea nation's ruling party has said, a day later the European Parliament backed war-torn Ukraine's bid to utilize for Eu membership.
The ruling Georgian Dream political party chairman, Irakli Kobakhidze, said the decision was made "based on the overall political context and the new reality."
Sweden says Russian fighter jets violated airspace
Four Russian fighter jets briefly entered Swedish territory over the Baltic Sea, the Swedish War machine said, sparking a swift condemnation from Sweden'south defence minister.
"The Russian violation of Swedish airspace is of course completely unacceptable," Defence Government minister Peter Hultqvist told news agency TT. "Information technology will lead to a firm diplomatic response from Sweden. Swedish sovereignty and territory must e'er be respected."
Blinken says Usa open to diplomacy on Ukraine
The states Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the United states of america had made clear to Ukraine it will support Kyiv'due south efforts at affairs with Russia but it was to difficult see a diplomatic path without a military de-escalation.
In a comment addressed to the Russian people, Blinken told a news conference the United States knew many of them wanted nothing to do with Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine.
Powerful explosion in Kyiv virtually rail station
Ukrainian officials have reported a powerful explosion in Kyiv, betwixt the Southern Railway station and the Ibis hotel, an surface area near Ukraine's Defence Ministry.
The station was being used to evacuate thousands of women and children, Ukraine's state-run railway company Ukrzaliznytsya said in a argument.
The station building suffered pocket-size damage and the number of any casualties was not nevertheless known, the argument said, calculation trains were still operating.
Zelenskyy's office told The Associated Press that it was a missile strike.
On the route in eastern Ukraine, everywhere is the forepart line
Later on Russia crossed the edge on Feb 24, it was not so much a thing of if the port city in eastern Ukraine would be targeted in the advance, but when.
Mariupol's eastern suburbs, 10km (six miles) from the forepart line with Russian-backed separatists, accept already suffered years of violence, but during the concluding week, Russian troops accept moved in from every direction and the area has been pounded incessantly with rockets and other projectiles.
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Ane week in, Russian federation's state of war on Ukraine has rocked the world
A week into Russian federation's invasion of Ukraine, at that place accept already been a number of historic firsts.
As Ukraine'southward capital Kyiv and other major cities came nether their first attack since World War Two, the U.s., the European Union and the Uk unleashed the deepest and broadest sanctions on such a large economy as Russian federation's for the first time.
European countries take made celebrated foreign and defence policy moves, while nuclear tensions have risen to their highest level since the Common cold State of war.
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Intense fighting ongoing in Mariupol
Al Jazeera'due south Charles Stratford, reporting from Dnipro, said witnesses spoke of intense fighting in the last couple of hours in the port city of Mariupol, located on the Azov Sea.
Members of a convoy organised by the Greek consul to evacuate its nationals described vehement fighting taking place in the evening. At least one bridge has been destroyed.
Stratford said taking over Mariupol was a strategic armed services goal as it would enable Russia to link Crimea with Donbas.
Abramovich puts Chelsea up for sale
Russian businessman Roman Abramovich has said he will sell Chelsea Football Society, amidst calls for the metals magnate to be striking by sanctions later on Russia'due south invasion of Ukraine.
Abramovich said he told his aides to set a charitable foundation which would receive all net proceeds from the sale.
"The foundation will be for the benefit of all victims of the war in Ukraine," Abramovich said in the statement.
European union's eastern countries to leave Soviet-era banks
Poland, the Czech Republic, Republic of bulgaria, Slovakia and Romania will quit two Soviet-era international banks which count Russian federation as their largest shareholder post-obit Moscow'southward invasion of Ukraine, their finance ministries have said.
The motility follows the annunciation by the Czechia on Friday which said it would quit the International Bank for Economical Cooperation (IBEC) and the International Investment Banking concern (IIB) and called on other Eu fellow member states to do also.
Russia says talks with Ukraine to resume on Thursday
Russia expects Ukrainian officials to arrive in Belarus for the next round of talks on Thursday morning, when a ceasefire is set to be discussed, Russian news agencies has cited Moscow's negotiator Vladimir Medinsky as maxim.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak suggested the verbal timing of talks had not yet been determined.
The first round of talks on the Byelorussian border on Monday ended with no agreement except to keep talking.
Lavrov says Russia aiming to disarm Ukraine
In an exclusive interview with Al Jazeera, Russia'due south Strange Minister Sergey Lavrov has said "Ukraine has the capability and the applied science to manufacture a nuclear weapon… The mission is clear: to disarm Ukraine and not deploy and manufacture whatsoever weapons that threaten Russian federation's security."
Lavrov added Russian federation had made its requests clear. "President Putin has repeatedly expressed our position, which our delegation conveyed in the talks with Ukraine in Belarus: Crimea is function of Russian federation; recognising the Luhansk and Donetsk Peoples Republics within the borders of the regions of Luhansk and Donetsk; the eradication of Nazism equally was the case with Nazi Germany," he said.
United nations approves resolution condemning Russian federation
The United Nations General Assembly has canonical a non-bounden resolution condemning Russia for the invasion of Ukraine and demanding an firsthand withdrawal.
The resolution, supported by 141 of the assembly'south 193 members, passed in a rare emergency session called by the UN Security Council.
Russian federation was joined by Belarus, which has served as a launch pad for Russian invasion forces, Eritrea, Northward Korea and Syria in voting against the resolution. Thirty-five members, including China, abstained.
"People in Ukraine desperately need peace and people around the world demand it," UN caput Antonio Guterres said in an interview after the vote.
United states launches task forcefulness to pursue 'corrupt Russian oligarchs'
US Chaser General Merrick Garland has announced the launch of a task force to pursue "corrupt Russian oligarchs" and violators of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.
"The Justice Section volition use all of its regime to seize the avails of individuals and entities who violate these sanctions," Garland said in a statement announcing the launch of 'Task Strength KleptoCapture.'
Read more than here.
Ukrainian minister draws standing ovation at Un rights torso
Ukraine'due south deputy foreign government minister has received a standing ovation at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva after calling for support for a draft resolution to set a United nations investigation into alleged crimes committed by Russia.
"Nosotros are nether inhumane attack," Emine Dzhaparova said.
More 100 diplomats walked out during an address past Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.
Republic of india urges its students to immediately leave Kharkiv
India'southward strange ministry has issued a new informational urging Indian students to immediately get out Kharkiv.
"We have issued this informational based on inputs that the Russian side has given," foreign ministry spokesman Arindam Bagchi told reporters in New Delhi. He did non specify how many Indian students were currently in Kharkiv.
The advisory said students must reach nearby cities and settlements by whatever ways of ship or on human foot by 16:00 GMT, "under all circumstances", for their ain rubber.
Information technology was issued a twenty-four hours later on an Indian student was killed by Russian shelling in Kharkiv.
Before Moscow launched its attack, Indian nationals fabricated upwardly about a quarter of the 76,000 foreign students in Ukraine, by far the largest number, according to Ukrainian government data.
European union sanctions 22 Belarus officers over Ukraine invasion
The European Union has imposed sanctions on 22 senior Belarusian military officers over what it said was Minsk's role in aiding Russia'due south invasion.
The six generals and xvi colonels were added to the European union blacklist because "Belarus is participating in a Russian unprovoked invasion confronting Ukraine by allowing military machine assailment from its territory," the official sanction document said.
The blacklist bans travel into the bloc and imposes asset freezes.
Amongst state of war, an independent Russian radio station goes silent
Ane of Russia'due south best-known radio stations has gone silent.
On Tuesday night, listeners who tuned in to Repeat of Moscow, one of the scattering of independent news outlets remaining in the state, heard nothing but the hissing noise of static.
It was the latest development in an intense squeeze past Moscow on domestic reporting of its war in Ukraine.
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WHO says first medical assistance for Ukraine to arrive in Poland Thursday
A offset shipment of medical aid for Ukraine will make it in Poland on Th, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said.
Six tonnes of trauma intendance and emergency surgery supplies will exist delivered to meet the needs of one,000 patients, and other health supplies to come across the needs of 150,000 people, WHO Managing director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a media briefing in Geneva.
He likewise stressed the need for a humanitarian corridor to be created to ensure the supplies reached the people most in demand.
Do non call Ukraine invasion a 'state of war', Russia tells media, schools
The Kremlin has been working hard to promote its version of events equally Russian federation's encarmine set on on Ukraine continues.
Read more than on Moscow'due south efforts to control the narrative here.
Reports of 'heavy casualties' in Mariupol: AJE contributor
Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford, reporting from Zaporizhzhia, a city in southeastern Ukraine, says there are reports of "heavy casualties" in Mariupol, a central port urban center in the country'south s.
"The mayor … is alleging that Russian forces are blocking the exit of civilians from the city," Stratford said.
"We know that there was a big tank column and a lot of Russian weapons moved into positions to the westward of the urban center over the last couple of days," he added.
"Nosotros as well know that there has been a lot of shelling on the due east of the urban center as well, since this war started."
Stratford said the Russians appeared to be "desperately trying to create a land corridor" linking the northern part of the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, with the self-proclaimed, Russian-backed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Luhansk People's Commonwealth (LPR) in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region.
"And it certainly looks equally if there has been so far today what tin only exist described as an escalation as Russian federation tries to push farther frontwards in multiple locations around the country," he added.
EU bans RT, Sputnik over Ukraine disinformation
Russian state-controlled media outlets RT and Sputnik will be banned in the Eu with immediate effect for promoting what the bloc says is systematic disinformation about Russian federation'south invasion of Ukraine.
The unprecedented move means that EU operators will be prohibited from dissemination, facilitating or otherwise contributing to the broadcasting of any RT and Sputnik content.
'We burned our dress to stay warm': Somali details Ukraine get out
Mustafa Mohamed, a Somali national, has described to Al Jazeera his ordeal to discover refuge in Poland following Russia'south invasion.
After ten years in Ukraine, he left behind his life in Vinnytsia when a blast striking the city, in west-central Ukraine, and headed for the border.
Along the manner, he found hardship and despair among the throngs of crowds attempting to reach condom elsewhere.
Click here to read his account.
Kyiv asks pope to talk to Putin about humanitarian corridors
Ukraine has asked the pope to talk to Putin well-nigh allowing humanitarian corridors to assistance civilians affected by Moscow's incursion, the country'due south deputy prime minister has said.
"I hope the conversation will take place," Iryna Vereshchuk said on live telly in Ukraine.
UK PM says Putin guilty of 'state of war criminal offense'
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said that he believes Russia's actions in Ukraine qualify as a "war crime".
"What nosotros have seen already from Vladimir Putin'due south government in the use of the munitions that they have already been dropping on innocent civilians … in my view already fully qualifies as a state of war crime," Johnson told the United Kingdom's Parliament.
The @HouseOfCommons shows its support for the Ukrainian ambassador at #PMQs.
The people of United Kingdom stand with the people of Ukraine 🇬🇧🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/wX5lqVOS2K
— United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland Prime Minister (@10DowningStreet) March 2, 2022
The humanitarian situation: What we know
The numbers of dead and wounded are incredibly difficult for anyone to verify, given the cluttered events on the basis.
Ukraine's emergency services said on Wednesday that more than 2,000 civilians had been killed since the invasion began on February 24.
"Children, women and defence force forces are losing their lives every hour," information technology said in a statement.
Russia has not commented in item on casualties, either in terms of Ukrainian civilians or losses among its troops.
On Monday, the Un said 136 people, including 13 children, had been killed.
However, the world body did warn the real effigy was likely to exist "much higher".
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the expiry toll.
Meanwhile, more 870,000 people take now fled Ukraine in search of safety in other countries, according to the Un refugee bureau (UNHCR).
Russians to compete equally 'neutral athletes' at Winter Paralympics
The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said Russian and Belarusan athletes volition be allowed to compete as neutrals at the Winter Paralympics in Beijing.
The IPC added that athletes from the two countries volition compete under the Paralympic flag and will not be included in the medal tabular array. It said it would not concur events in either country "while the nowadays situation continues".
"What we take decided upon is the harshest possible punishment nosotros can hand down within our constitution and the current IPC rules," IPC President Andrew Parsons said in a argument.
IPC statement on the RPC and NPC Belarus participation at the Beijing 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. https://t.co/Y5yimQ3MN7
— Paralympic Games (@Paralympics) March 2, 2022
Ukraine needs humanitarian corridor, health government minister says
Ukraine is facing problems distributing medicines to pharmacies and hospitals due to the Russian invasion and wants to establish a humanitarian corridor for them, Wellness Minister Oleh Lyashko says.
Lyashko too raised the effect of supplying medical oxygen to coronavirus patients, but added that at that place were still enough stocks for the moment.
Russian cruise missile strikes Kharkiv metropolis council building, official says
Russian forces have fired a cruise missile into the urban center council edifice in Kharkiv, the deputy governor of the region, Roman Semenukha, says.
A key Russian target, Kharkiv has come under intense shelling over the past two days.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify Semenukha's merits.
Ukrainian official claims Kherson not captured by Russia
An adviser to Ukraine'due south president has denied Russia's claims that its forces have captured Kherson.
Oleksiy Arestovych said street fighting is conyinuing in the city, which is home to about 300,000 people and sits at the Dnieper River'south exit into the Black Sea.
"The city has not fallen, our side continues to defend," he said.
More than 870,000 people accept fled Ukraine, UN says
More than 870,000 people take now fled Ukraine since Russia launched its invasion, according to the UNHCR.
Many accept fled into neighbouring Poland, which has received more 450,000 people and then far.
The overall number has risen speedily since Moscow started its onslaught and is expected to go on to climb apace.
UAE reimposes visa requirements on Ukrainians
The Ukrainian diplomatic mission in the United Arab Emirates says the Gulf country is reimposing visa requirements on Ukrainians.
The embassy posted on its Facebook folio that the measure, which means any Ukrainian passport holders wanting to visit the UAE volition now need a visa start, had taken effect from Tuesday.
The energy-rich UAE, which relies on Russian and Ukrainian wheat exports, is domicile to some 15,000 Ukrainian residents among its roughly viii million foreign residents and 1 million Emirati citizens.
Like other Gulf Arab states, it does not recognise individuals fleeing war and has not permitted refugees from Syria, Iraq and other wars to seek asylum or seek resettlement.
Last week, it abstained during a UN Security Council vote condemning Moscow'due south invasion of Ukraine.
Lavrov says Russia will not let Ukraine obtain nuclear weapons: Written report
Russian Foreign Government minister Sergey Lavrov has said Moscow will non allow Ukraine to obtain nuclear weapons, according to a report past the land's TASS news bureau.
Lavrov's reported remarks came a day after he alleged at a Geneva disarmament meeting that Kyiv has been seeking to learn nuclear weapons.
"Ukraine still has Soviet technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons," he told the Conference on Disarmament in a pre-recorded address. "We cannot fail to respond to this real danger."
Lavrov delivered his speech to a sparse crowd after diplomats from many countries staged a walk-out to protestation against Russia'south invasion. Moscow has moved to put its own nuclear forces on high alert in recent days.
'Four killed' every bit Russian federation raids pound Kharkiv
Emergency services and the mayor of Kharkiv say four more people have been killed in the urban center as Russian air and rocket attacks continue.
Ix others have been wounded, they said.
"Kharkiv is a Russian-speaking metropolis. Every fourth person in Kharkiv has relatives in the Russian Federation. But the city's mental attitude to Russia today is completely unlike to what it e'er was before," Mayor Ihor Terekhov said in a video posted online.
"Nosotros never expected this could happen: total devastation, anything, genocide confronting the Ukrainian people – this is unforgivable."
At that place was no immediate comment on the allegations from Russia, while Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the figures provided.
Russian police allegedly detain children for taking anti-state of war signs to Ukraine's diplomatic mission in Moscow
Novaya Gazeta, Russia'south leading independent newspaper, has reported that children take been detained by Russian police for laying flowers and anti-war signs at the Ukrainian embassy in Moscow.
"In the Presnensky police department, children and their parents are left overnight," the paper tweeted in Russian, alongside a photograph of the children and their parents.
"The constabulary detained them when they laid flowers at the Ukrainian diplomatic mission," it added.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify Novaya Gazeta's reporting.
В ОВД Пресненское детей и их родителей оставляют на ночь. Полиция задержала их, когда они возлагали цветы у посольства Украины
Фото: фейсбук pic.twitter.com/Wq3trWsjPN
— Новая Газета (@novaya_gazeta) March 1, 2022
Kyiv mayor says Russian federation is massing troops closer to the upper-case letter
Russia is gathering troops closer and closer to Kyiv, the Ukrainian capital's mayor says.
"We are preparing and will defend Kyiv," Vitali Klitschko said in a argument on Facebook. "Kyiv stands and will stand up."
He likewise reminded the metropolis'due south residents to continue obeying a urban center-broad curfew in event from 8pm to 7am each day.
Russia says it's fix for more talks today
The Kremlin has said Russian officials are set to concord a second round of talks with Ukraine later on today, but added it was not clear if Ukrainian officials would plow upwardly.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said there was contradictory information regarding the talks. A coming together between delegations from the two countries on Mon ended without any understanding except to go on talking.
Zelenskyy said on Tuesday that Russian federation must terminate bombing Ukrainian cities earlier further discussions could have place.
Navalny spokeswoman calls for daily anti-state of war protests in Russia
Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny's spokeswoman has called for daily anti-state of war protests in Russian federation.
"The most of import [thing]: to spread information. If you are agape of reposting (although it's late for fear) – at least spread it amongst your acquaintances past word of mouth … No state of war," Kira Yarmysh tweeted.
Yarmysh called for protesters to stage daily demonstrations at 7pm local time in the main squares of all Russian cities, and for rallies to be held at 2pm local time on weekends.
Several rounds of anti-war protests have already taken place in cities beyond Russia. More than than 6,800 people take been arrested for taking part in the demonstrations, co-ordinate to protest monitoring group OVD-Info.
Russia cancelled Black Bounding main passage bid of four warships: Turkey
Russia has cancelled a bid to send four of its warships through Turkish waters into the Black Sea at Turkey's asking, according to the Turkish government.
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Eu approves new sanctions against Belarus
EU diplomats have canonical new sanctions confronting Republic of belarus for its supporting role in Russia'due south invasion of Ukraine, the French Presidency of the EU Council says.
The sanctions will target Belarusian figures declared to take played a role in the assault, the French Presidency said on Twitter, and will also striking "some economic sectors, and in item timber, steel and potassium".
The presidency of the Eu Council rotates amongst the bloc'southward member states every six months.
Why hasn't Russia mobilised its vast air power against Ukraine?
Before Russia's invasion, the The states had predicted Moscow would launch a blistering assault that would apace mobilise its vast air power to boss Ukraine's skies.
Merely recent days take seen those expectations confounded, with Russia acting far more delicately with its air power.
Read more here.
Empty shelves, spy hunt: Kyiv residents caryatid for Russian assault
In the Ukrainian capital, residents and servicemen akin chase for Russian spies in the Ukrainian majuscule while supermarkets struggle to keep their shelves stocked.
All of this while an enormous Russian military convoy lumbers towards the metropolis, raising fears of an imminent uptick in fighting there.
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European union Committee proposes temporary residence rights for Ukrainian refugees
The European union'southward executive arm, the European Commission, has proposed that the bloc grant temporary residence rights to people fleeing Ukraine.
Designed to deal with mass arrivals of displaced persons inside the EU, the new legislation volition provide the same level of protection to Ukrainians in all 27 of the bloc's member states and allow them to obtain residence permits as well every bit access to employment and social welfare.
The proposal will be discussed past Eu interior ministers on Thursday.
Zelenskyy adviser says more than Russia talks being considered
Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podolyak has said that Kyiv is discussing whether to hold more negotiations with Russian federation.
A meeting betwixt delegations from the two countries on Monday concluded without any understanding except to continue talking.
Podolyak told the Reuters news agency that a "substantial agenda" was needed for whatever follow-upwards coming together.
Russian attacks 'aimed at depriving Ukraine access to Black Sea': AJE contributor
Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull, reporting from the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, says there appears to be a "pattern of Russian attacks aimed at depriving Ukraine of access to its Black Ocean coast".
"The Russians are said to exist in command of Kherson and are also encircling Mariupol, a much bigger port city downward on the Blackness Sea coast betwixt Crimea and the breakaway regions," he said, citing the DPR and LPR in eastern Ukraine.
'Nada is normal whatever longer in Ukraine'
Kateryna Shynkaruk, a Ukrainian political scientist and lecturer at the Kyiv-based National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, says "nothing is any longer normal in Ukraine" following Russia's invasion.
"Information technology has been such a dramatic change," Shynkaruk told Al Jazeera from the western city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, where she fled to on Tuesday from the capital.
"And all these circumstances accept brought to light things that were debated for decades – nearly whether Ukraine belongs in Europe or not … and what kind of state Russia is," she added. "Information technology is a terrorist state."
Mariupol under heavy shelling, mayor says
Mariupol is under abiding shelling from Russian forces, its mayor says.
"We are fighting, nosotros are non ceasing to defend our motherland," Vadym Boichenko said live on Ukrainian Television.
The intensity of the attacks meant it was proving impossible to evacuate those who had been wounded, he added.
Russian paratroopers land in Kharkiv, clashes erupt
The Ukrainian war machine says immediate clashes have erupted later on Russian paratroopers landed in Ukraine's second-largest urban center of Kharkiv on the seventh day of Russian federation's full-scale invasion of its neighbor.
"Russian airborne troops landed in Kharkiv … and attacked a local hospital," the army said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.
"In that location is an ongoing fight between the invaders and the Ukrainians," it added.
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'Russian soldiers seen on the streets of Kherson': AJE correspondent
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons, reporting from Lviv, says there are reports of "Russian soldiers being seen on the streets of Kherson".
"This is a strategic urban center considering it links the annexed Crimean Peninsula to the mainland of Ukraine," Simmons said.
He added Russian forces were now trying to take control of Mariupol.
"There is a colossal fight going on there," Simmons said.
Ukraine has enough for current spending despite war, finance minister says
Ukraine has enough funds to cover all electric current spending, the country's finance government minister has said, noting the scale of international back up amid Russia'due south attack.
"We accept huge international support … We bear out all social payments, pensions, salaries and fiscal back up for the ground forces," Sergiy Marchenko told Ukrainian Television receiver in an interview, calculation the ministry building would continue issuing domestic war bonds.
Russia aims to 'erase u.s.a.', Ukraine's Zelenskyy says
Zelenskyy has claimed that nearly six,000 Russians have been killed during Moscow'due south invasion and warned the Kremlin information technology volition not be able to take control of Ukraine with bombs and air raids.
In a video accost, the Ukrainian president said a Russian missile strike in the capital on Tuesday which hit a Holocaust memorial circuitous "proves that for many people in Russia our Kyiv is absolutely foreign".
"They don't know a affair well-nigh Kyiv, nearly our history. Merely they all have orders to erase our history, erase our state, erase us all," he added.
Russian federation has not publically declared how many of its troops have been killed and Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the figures provided by Zelenskky.
Russia claims capture of Kherson: Written report
Russia's defence ministry building says the country'southward armed services take captured the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, according to a report past the country-run RIA Novosti news agency.
If the metropolis has fallen, it would be the largest to be captured by Russian forces since Moscow launched its offensive.
Local government deny Kherson has fallen, simply say Russian troops have encircled the urban center.
People leaving Russia limited to carrying $10,000 every bit sanctions bite
Russian residents are no longer allowed to get out the land with more than the equivalent of $ten,000 as the Kremlin tries to keep capital inside the country.
The dominion affects the movement of foreign currency, too, and seems designed to make sure that people attempting to exit Russia – every bit sanctions are slapped on the country – don't accept all of their hard currency with them.
Long queues are now common at cash machines that still accept bank notes as people try to withdraw their holdings, against the backdrop of a rouble that is rapidly losing most of its value in calorie-free of the sanctions. Prices of imported appurtenances are shooting up and people are trying to purchase some items, similar new phones, before they become unaffordable.
Germany is prepared if Russia stops gas exports: Economy minister
Germany is prepared should Russia cease exporting gas to the country, which is Europe's largest economy, Economy Government minister Robert Habeck has said.
Asked by radio station Deutschlandfunk what the government would do if Russian federation stops gas exports, Habeck replied: "We are prepared for that. I can give the all-clear for the electric current winter and summer."
"For the adjacent winter, nosotros would take further measures," he added, pointing to planned new legislation to ensure gas storage is full for wintertime.
"So nosotros are also taking precautions for the worst case, which has not happened still because the Russians are delivering," he said, calculation that in a worse-instance scenario Berlin could proceed "coal-fired power plants in reserve, maybe even keep them running," just that information technology was committed to moving to renewables in the medium term.
At to the lowest degree 21 killed, 112 wounded in shelling of Kharkiv: Ukrainian official
At least 21 people have been killed and 112 wounded in shelling in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv in the final 24 hours, regional governor Oleg Synegubov has said.
The authorities said Russian missile attacks hit the centre of Ukraine's 2nd-largest metropolis, including residential areas and the regional administration edifice.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the figures provided.
More than 450,000 people have fled to Poland, minister says
More than 450,000 people have fled to Poland from Ukraine since the Russian invasion started, Deputy Interior Minister Pawel Szefernaker has said.
Szefernaker as well told private radio station Radio Zet that the number of people entering Poland fell slightly on Tuesday to 98,000 from a record number of more than 100,000 a day earlier.
Russia'southward largest lender Sberbank quits Europe
Russia's largest lender Sberbank has said it is quitting the European marketplace after coming under pressure from Western sanctions levelled against the state bank.
"In the current surroundings, Sberbank has decided to withdraw from the European marketplace," the lender said in a statement carried by Russian news agencies.
The banking company'south European subsidiaries were facing "abnormal cash outflows and threats to the rubber of employees and branches," the statement said.
Google blocks RT, Sputnik from Play app shop in Europe
Alphabet Inc'due south Google has said information technology has blocked mobile apps continued to RT and Sputnik from its Play store, in line with an before move to remove the Russian country publishers from its news-related features.
A number of tech companies take limited distribution and advertising tools to Russian news outlets in recent days as the European Commission readies a ban on them out of concern that they are spreading misinformation about the state of war in Ukraine.
Moscow Exchange won't resume stock trading on Wednesday
Russia'south cardinal bank has kept stock market place trading on the Moscow Exchange suspended for a third day in a row, just says it will allow a limited range of operations for the first fourth dimension this calendar week.
Taiwan president to donate salary for Ukraine relief efforts
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has said that she, Vice President William Lai and Premier Su Tseng-chang will each donate one month's salary to help with humanitarian relief efforts for Ukraine.
Twitter to comply with EU sanctions on Russian state media
Twitter will comply with the Eu's sanctions on Russian country-affiliated media RT and Sputnik when the EU order takes effect, the social network has said.
"The European union (EU) sanctions will likely legally require us to withhold certain content in Eu member states," a Twitter spokesperson said in an emailed argument to Reuters.
"We intend to comply with the lodge when it goes into outcome."
Outside the EU, Twitter would continue to focus on reducing the visibility of content from these outlets equally well as labelling it.
UNGA will censure Russia over Ukraine invasion
The United nations General Assembly (UNGA) is set to reprimand Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and demand that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its armed forces forces, a move that aims to diplomatically isolate Russia at the world torso.
While UNGA resolutions are non-binding, they behave political weight.
The draft text "demands that the Russian Federation immediately, completely, and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognised borders".
United nations General Assembly fix to vote Wednesday on a draft resolution co-sponsored by 90+ countries deploring Russia'southward armed forces offensive against Ukraine & demanding an immediate end to the use of force & a complete withdrawal.
The text (with co-sponsors): https://t.co/MnNOFhmaNx
— Amanda Toll (@amandaruthprice) March 1, 2022
Un: 13 children killed in Russian invasion
The United nations homo rights office (OHCHR) says at least 136 civilians, including 13 children, accept been killed since Russian federation invaded Ukraine concluding week.
Liz Throssel, an OHCHR spokeswoman, said 400 others were wounded.
"The real toll is probable to exist much higher," she said, adding that 253 of the casualties were in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
Biden: Usa stands with the Ukrainian people
The United states president has sharply criticised his Russian counterpart and led a continuing ovation for the embattled Ukrainian people in a State of the Union speech.
"Permit each of us if you lot're able to stand up, stand and transport an unmistakable point to Ukraine and to the world," Biden said. The lawmakers stood, applauded and roared, many waving Ukrainian flags.
"While he [Putin] may make gains on the battlefield, he will pay a continuing high price over the long run," Biden said, adding that the US is working to seize yachts and apartments of Russian oligarchs, saying: "We are coming for your ill-begotten gains."
Boeing suspends parts, support for Russian airlines
Boeing Co says it is suspending parts, maintenance and technical support for Russian airlines as well as major operations in Moscow.
"Every bit the conflict continues, our teams are focused on ensuring the rubber of our teammates in the region," said a spokesperson for the Us plane manufacturer.
World'south biggest shipping lines halt Russian deliveries
Danish aircraft giant Maersk, Switzerland-based MSC and France's CMA CGM say they will no longer take bookings for appurtenances from Russia and will suspend well-nigh deliveries.
Citing the bear on of sanctions, "bookings to and from Russia will be temporarily suspended, with exception of foodstuffs, medical and humanitarian supplies", Maersk said in a argument.
MSC announced like measures, saying it would "keep to accept and screen bookings for delivery of essential goods". CMA CGM said information technology was suspending all bookings "in the involvement of safety".
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Visa, Mastercard block Russian fiscal institutions
US payment card firms Visa Inc and Mastercard Inc accept blocked multiple Russian fiscal institutions from their network, complying with sanctions imposed over Moscow'due south invasion of Ukraine.
Some eighty,000 Ukrainians return to fight Russian federation: Ministry
Ukraine's Ministry of Internal Affairs says lxxx,000 Ukrainians have returned from overseas to bring together in the fight against Russia.
In a Telegram mail, the ministry said the vast majority of returnees were men and they had joined the military ranks and other territorial defence forces.
US to ban Russian flights from American airspace: Officials
The U.s. government is gear up to announce a ban on Russian flights in American airspace following similar moves by the EU and Canada, co-ordinate to government and industry officials.
The precise timing is unclear but is expected within the side by side 24 hours, the sources told Reuters news agency.
ExxonMobil to withdraw from key Russian oilfield
United states of america oil giant ExxonMobil says it will begin a phased withdrawal from the major oilfield it operates in Russia on behalf of a consortium including Russian, Indian and Japanese companies, citing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
"In response to recent events, we are beginning the process to discontinue operations and developing steps to leave the Saghalien-1 venture," the group said in a statement.
Four expressionless in Russian attack on Zhytomyr: Official
An adviser to Ukraine'southward interior minister says four people, including a child, were killed when homes in the Ukrainian urban center of Zhytomyr were hitting by a Russian cruise missile.
Anton Herashchenko said on his Telegram aqueduct that the missile was apparently aimed at a nearby base of the 95th Airborne Brigade in Zhytomyr, 120km (75 miles) west of Kyiv.
Residential buildings about the base were on fire and "so far, four people have died. Including a child," he said.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the figures provided.
The russian occupation forces have merely launched a massive missile strike on a military base and residential neighborhoods in the metropolis of #Zhytomyr.
We're pleading to the international community to help us terminate these war crimes! #StopRussianAggression #StopPutin #StopRussia pic.twitter.com/Z633dwivki— Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (@ua_parliament) March one, 2022
Seven killed in raid on Kharkiv edifice: Governor
Russian forces are standing to bombard Ukraine's eastern metropolis of Kharkiv, firing on residential neighbourhoods equally well as the city's main square, according to a local official.
Kharkiv Governor Oleh Synyehubov said in a Telegram mail service that seven people were killed in an attack on a government building and 24 people, including a child, were wounded.
Al Jazeera was unable to independently verify the figures provided.
Kharkiv motion-picture show.twitter.com/KziDpLI4QC
— Michael A. Horowitz (@michaelh992) March 1, 2022
US lawmakers urge Biden to shield Ukrainians from deportation
More twoscore members of the US House of Representatives have signed a letter to Biden urging him to designate Ukraine for Temporary Protected Status (TPS), which would shield Ukrainian nationals in the U.s. from deportation.
"The United States has a moral and humanitarian responsibility to support Ukrainians during this ongoing disharmonize," the legislators wrote.
Russia's war on Ukraine has caused a humanitarian crisis of monstrous proportions — and the Ukrainian people demand our aid.
That'south why I'm leading forty+ of my colleagues calling on @POTUS to designate Ukraine for TPS, and provide Ukrainian students special student relief. moving picture.twitter.com/uLe0PJGtd6
— Adriano Espaillat (@RepEspaillat) March 1, 2022
Italy'due south Eni to pull out of Russia-Turkey pipeline
Italian oil giant Eni says information technology will withdraw from the Bluish Stream gas pipeline linking Russia to Turkey in which it has a fifty percent stake.
A spokesman said "Eni intends to sell its stake" in the Bluish Stream pipeline which links Russia and Turkey via the Blackness Sea. Rivals BP and Shell take likewise divested from Russia-linked projects.
Biden to condemn Russian invasion of Ukraine as 'Putin'south war'
Biden will condemn Russia'south invasion of Ukraine in strong terms during a State of the Union address later on Tuesday evening, comparison it with World War Two, according to the White Firm.
"Throughout our history, we've learned this lesson – when dictators do non pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They go along moving. And, the costs and threats to America and the earth continue rising," Biden will say in his spoken communication.
Putin misjudged Western response to Ukraine invasion: Biden
Biden says Putin underestimated the powerful response his invasion of Ukraine would illicit from Western nations.
"Putin's war was premeditated and unprovoked," Biden said in prepared remarks released ahead of his annual State of the Marriage address.
"He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He idea the Due west and NATO wouldn't respond. And, he thought he could split up us hither at home. Putin was wrong. Nosotros were ready."
United Airlines suspends flying over Russian airspace
United Airlines confirms it has temporarily suspended flying over Russian airspace, joining other major United states carriers.
Delta Air Lines, American Airlines and United Package Service all said this week they had halted flights over Russian federation every bit the White House considers post-obit Canada and the EU in banning overflights of US airspace by Russian carriers.
US's Yellen: G7 ready to impose further financial pressure on Russia
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says the Grouping of 7 (G7) nations will convene a task force to focus on freezing and seizing assets of Russian elites.
"We stand ready to impose farther financial pressure, as necessary," Yellen said in a statement afterwards a G7 meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors on the situation in Ukraine.
Globe Bank preparing $3bn aid package for Ukraine
The World Bank says it is preparing a $3bn aid package for Ukraine, which will include at least $350m in firsthand funds.
The offset tranche of the help "will be submitted to the Board for approval this week, followed past $200m in fast-disbursing support for wellness and instruction," the World Bank said in a joint argument with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The International monetary fund will consider the state's latest asking for emergency financing "as early on as side by side week."
Russian federation: We meet 'no desire' from Ukraine to find solution
Russia's Ambassador to the United nations in Geneva says Moscow sees "no desire on the part of Ukraine" to try to observe a legitimate and balanced solution to the issues between the two countries.
Gennady Gatilov told a Lebanese television station that Russia "supports affairs based on respect for the positions of all countries and equality, but for now, we don't come across that", co-ordinate to the Russian news agency RIA.
Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a get-go round of talks on Monday only made no substantial progress, merely agreeing to run into again. No engagement was set for a second round.
World Bank, IMF race to go aid to Ukraine, warn of 'treacherous period'
The heads of the World Bank and IMF say they are racing to provide billions of dollars of boosted funding to Ukraine in the coming weeks and months, warning that the state of war threatened to create "pregnant spillovers" to other countries.
IMF primary Kristalina Georgieva and World Bank President David Malpass warned that commodity prices were rising, which risked farther fueling inflation, and disruptions in financial markets would go on to worsen should the conflict persist.
The leaders said they were securely shocked and saddened by the war, but did non explicitly mention Russia, which is a shareholder in both institutions.
Eu bans Russian media outlets, banks
The European union has banned Russian state media outlets RT and Sputnik from broadcasting in the bloc while banning "certain" Russian banks from the SWIFT bank messaging system, the EU'southward rotating presidency said.
The moves, due to come into force on Wednesday after publication in the official journal of the European union, come equally Brussels intensifies its sanctions regime on Moscow in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Zelenskyy asks Biden to 'stop the aggressor'
Ukraine'southward president has spoken with his American counterpart, telling him that it is important to terminate "assaulter" Russia "as soon as possible".
The telephone phone call came alee of Biden's State of the Union accost.
Just had a conversation with @POTUS. The American leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defense assistance to Ukraine was discussed. Nosotros must finish the attacker as before long equally possible. Thanks for your back up!
— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March one, 2022
100,000 Ukrainians join self-defence units: Official
Svitlana Zalishchuk, a foreign policy adviser to Ukraine's deputy prime minister, told Al Jazeera Ukrainians are fearful yet adamant every bit fighting increases across the country.
"We are scared that Putin is not going to stop," Zalishchuk said from Beregovo, a city in western Ukraine.
Approximately 100,000 people joined have so-called territorial defence units in recent days in response to Russia'due south advance, she said. That includes her brother, who "has nothing to practise with [the] army but he took a gun and went to protect one of the towns at the entrance of Kyiv."
Miles-long Russian convoy appears stalled about Kyiv: US official
An enormous Russian military convoy is lumbering towards Kyiv raising fears of an imminent uptick in fighting there.
A senior Usa defense force official told reporters the convoy appeared to stall on Tuesday, however, due to a number of factors, including the Ukrainian resistance that the Russian troops have faced.
"We also believe that a function of the stall could be – and I emphasise the give-and-take 'could' – could be a outcome of their ain self-adamant sort of suspension in operations – that they are mayhap regrouping, rethinking, reevaluating," the official said on status of anonymity.
Apple 'pauses' all product sales in Russian federation
Tech behemothic Apple has announced a halt to all product sales in Russia, adding that: "Last week, we stopped all exports into our sales aqueduct in the land.".
The iPhone maker likewise announced Apple tree Pay and other services have been express, while Russian country-endemic media RT and Sputnik are no longer available for download outside Russian federation.
"We are securely concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with all of the people who are suffering as a outcome of the violence," the company statement said.
Ukrainian refugees stream into Hungary
More than 85,000 people take crossed from Ukraine into Republic of hungary since the start of Russia's invasion.
Forth the 135km (84-mile) frontier, refugees are met with hot tea, locally made sandwiches, and logistical help – calls to embassies, free ticket booking, and even amusement for children. Read more here.
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