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Queues of people snaked through Moscow shopping malls on Tuesday as the scramble for hard currency continued, and Russians faced increasing isolation as sanctions made travel harder and sports teams were ejected from major competitions. Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine threaten to decimate the economy, and have already…

Reports have emerged that Russia is using cluster bombs in its incursion in Ukraine, a charge Moscow denies

The Prime Minister said no Nato countries are contemplating becoming actively involved in repelling Moscow’s invasion.

Queues of people snaked through Moscow shopping malls on Tuesday as the scramble for hard currency continued, and Russians faced increasing isolation as sanctions made travel harder and sports teams were ejected from major competitions.

Kyiv's TV tower exploded in the areas of Borshchahivka and Dorohozhychi in Ukraine moments after a Russian warning and the reverberations of the blast were said to be heard for miles around

Russia knows sanctions. In 2009, the death of Moscow anti-corruption lawyer Sergei Magnitsky in custody motivated Bill Browder, an entrepreneur who used to work in Russia and employ him, to lobby the US government to introduce sanctions against Russia.

A draft resolution being prepared for Wednesday's emergency meeting of the U.N. nuclear watchdog's board condemns Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a move that might anger Moscow while it works with the West to clinch a nuclear agreement on Iran.

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba asked his Chinese counterpart in a phone call on Tuesday to use Beijing's ties with Moscow to stop Russia's military invasion of its neighbour, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said in a statement.

British foreign minister Liz Truss said on Tuesday that Russia was becoming a "global pariah" since Moscow launched an invasion of Ukraine last week and urged countries to isolate it further.