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Waves of Russian missiles pounded a military training base close to Ukraine’s western border with NATO member Poland, killing 35 people. The strike followed Russian threats to target foreign weapon shipments that are helping Ukrainian fighters defend their country against Russia's grinding invasion. More than 30 Russian cruise missiles targeted…

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Satellite images taken on Saturday morning showed extensive damage to civilian infrastructure and residential buildings throughout the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol, a private U.S. company said.

Fighting rages near Kyiv as conditions deteriorate in other major Ukrainian cities under Russian bombardment.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy reveals that at least 1,300 Ukrainian troops have died as French and German talks with Vladimir Putin fail

The president says 1,300 Ukrainian soldiers have so far been killed in the war

A tank emblazoned with a giant Z backs up clumsily in the besieged city of Mariupol, crashing into destroyed buses before letting loose a shell

KYIV, Ukraine — As Russian forces kept up their bombardment of cities across Ukraine on Saturday, capturing the eastern outskirts of a key southern port, the Kremlin warned the U.S. that it would consider convoys carrying weapons to Ukraine to be “legitimate targets.”

Fighting raged near Kyiv on Saturday and heavy shelling in other areas threatened new attempts to evacuate trapped civilians as France said Russian President Vladimir Putin showed no readiness to end the war in Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow was sending in new troops after Ukrainian forces put…