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Fleeing residents headed for city of Zaporizhzhia, officials say

U.S. President Joe Biden will make his first visit to Europe since the invasion of Ukraine to discuss the crisis with NATO allies next week, the White House said on Tuesday as the refugee tally hit 3 million amid more Russian air strikes.

The interior ruins of an apartment destroyed by Russian shelling were visible from the streets of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city. People in winter coats and hats took cover from an attack inside a building entryway in Mariupol, a besieged port city. And in neighboring Poland, a young refugee in blue…

KYIV, Ukraine — Bombardments struck across Ukraine on Monday — including a direct hit on a Kyiv apartment building — as the embattled nation’s leaders engaged in another round of talks with Russia despite little progress after previous negotiations.

Russia-Ukraine news from March 15: Red Cross evacuates several thousand civilians from Sumy, northeastern Ukraine.

Ukraine officials say a series of Russian strikes have hit a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, igniting a huge fire and frantic rescue effort in a 15-storey apartment building.

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Air Marshal Edward Stringer, a former Director of Operations at the Ministry of Defence said that world leaders like Joe Biden were well aware of the possibility the war in Ukraine could expand beyond the nation's borders

KYIV, Ukraine — Bombardments struck across Ukraine on Monday — including a direct hit on a Kyiv apartment building — as the embattled nation’s leaders opened another round of talks with Russia despite little progress after previous negotiations.

Ukrainian and Russian officials have met again for peace talks – all the while invaders launched attacks on the capital and killed more civilians. 

Mariupol is facing extreme shortages of basic necessities and communication lines have all but gone silent. Friends and family of residents trapped by Russian shelling paint a picture of what is happening on the ground.