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Nations will back Ukraine in conflict ‘for as long as it takes’

Russian forces showered Ukraine with more missiles and munition-carrying drones Tuesday after widespread strikes killed at least 19 people in an attack the UN human rights office described as “particularly shocking” and potential war crimes. Air raid warnings extended throughout the country for a second straight morning as Ukrainian officials…

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Sitting cross-legged in a passageway deep within Kyiv's Zoloti Vorota metro station, 10-year-old Daria Kucher ignored roaring trains and hundreds of other people taking refuge from the threat of Russian missiles, etching a flower on a pad with her colored pencils.

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said Russia's "barbaric missile attacks" show "brutal" impact of war.

Putin's propagandists also warned viewers that the Kremlin would need to enforce a new round of mobilisation, because the first tranche of 300,000 was not enough.

In an exclusive interview with FRANCE 24 following Russia’s recent missile attacks on Ukraine, Lithuania’s Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said the reason civilians are being targeted is because Russia is “losing on the battleground”, and want to “create panic and exert pressure on Ukrainian society - and us”.

Russia's biggest air strikes against Ukraine since the start of the war killed at least 19 people, drove thousands of Ukrainians back into air raid shelters and knocked out electricity in hundreds of towns and villages.

US President Joe Biden warned last week that the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” is now the highest since the Cuban Missile Crisis as Russia and North Korea engage in sabre-rattling on the use of “tactical” nuclear weapons. Such weapons are less destructive than “strategic” weapons designed to wipe out entire…

The strikes come on the heels of Russia's largest bombardment of Ukraine since the start of the war on Monday.

Ukrainian president also asks for more air defence systems after new wave of Russian missile strikes