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Ukraine, US and other countries condemn Russia for alleged civilian executions

LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian forces braced for an intensified Russian onslaught against the eastern Donbas region Sunday as officials from Ukraine, the U.S. and other countries condemned Moscow over allegations of civilian executions.

Los Angeles Times

Russian missiles hit oil refinery in Ukraine’s key port of Odesa

Russia says it has destroyed an oil processing plant and three fuel depots in the strategic port city

The Independent UK

Live updates: Russian missiles strike oil plant in Odesa

The Russian military says it has struck an oil processing plant and fuel depots around the strategic Black Sea port of Odesa

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Greek foreign minister leads humanitarian aid mission to Odesa

Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will land in Odesa on Sunday, leading a humanitarian aid mission into the southern port city of Ukraine, the foreign ministry said.

Reuters

Russia says it destroyed oil refinery near Odesa

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Ukraine news - live: Putin’s troops committed genocide near Kyiv, says mayor as Odesa fuel depot attacked

Thick smoke and flames seen in port city as Ukraine says some missiles ‘shot down by air defence’

The Independent UK

Zelensky slams ‘torture of whole nation’ as Bucha killings spark outrage

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said the Russian leadership was responsible for civilian killings in Bucha, near Kyiv, where bodies were found lying on a street following a Russian troop withdrawal. Zelensky slammed “the torture of the whole nation” amid international condemnations and calls for an investigation. Read our…

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Missiles hit Ukrainian refinery, 'critical infrastructure' near Odesa

Russian attacks have destroyed an oil refinery in the central Poltava region and struck "critical infrastructure", most likely oil facilities, near the port city of Odesa, local officials said on Sunday.

Reuters

Ukraine claims control over Kyiv region as Russia looks east

Ukraine said on Saturday its forces had seized back all areas around Kyiv, claiming complete control of the capital region for the first time since Russia launched the invasion.

Reuters

Missiles hit Ukraine's Odesa region and there are casualties, says governor

Three missiles hit a residential area near the Ukrainian southern port city of Odesa on Friday, the local governor Maksym Marchenko said in a video posted online, adding there were casualties.

Reuters

Bristol business offers displaced Ukraine tech workers employment

Amdaris evacuated its office in Odesa after the Russian invasion in February

Birmingham Post

'My personal tragedy': Ukrainians brace for attack on Odesa

The Black Sea port of Odesa is mining its beaches and rushing to defend itself from a Mariupol-style fate

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war updates: Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands Western nations provide more weapons — as it happened

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy demands Western nations provide more military hardware from their stockpiles, asking if they are afraid of Russia.

ABC News

For Odesa, there's echoes of troubled past as Russian threat moves closer

Odesa has meant romance and terror for as long as I can remember. Now another generation of refugees are fleeing terror — this time from war and occupation, writes Norman Swan.

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Artist George Butler: ‘I draw what happens at the fringes of atrocity’

As millions fled the conflict in Ukraine, the reportage illustrator felt compelled to travel there. He explains why he wants to depict the human cost of war

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: A glaring double standard — one for Ukrainian refugees, one for Central Americans

I opened my computer to start Zoom for my class on Indigenous media in Latin America. As I proceeded to take roll, I noticed that my voice began to shake and my eyes were getting red as I looked at myself in the Zoom camera.

France 24

‘We just want to stay alive’: Sheltering from Russian bombs in Odesa’s catacombs

Russian forces bombed residential areas in their first attack on the Black Sea port of Odesa on Monday. Ukraine fears the city could be the next target of Russia’s offensive in the south. Its inhabitants have found the perfect refuge from Russian bombs – the city's catacombs.

Reuters

Fleeing Ukrainian athletes welcomed by clubs in Bosnia, Bulgaria

Sports clubs in Bulgaria and Bosnia are providing refuge, training and competition for athletes escaping war in another show of global solidarity for Ukraine.

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Vladimir Putin desperately wants to claim the 'pearl of the Black Sea' but Odesa has become a fortress

As Russia's troops approach, the strategically important port city of Odesa is fortifying itself from the inside out, with sandbags lined on its streets and a population devoted to the war effort.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine refuses to surrender besieged city of Mariupol

Mariupol continues to be bombarded by Russian forces, who also reportedly attacked Odesa for the first time.

ABC News

Holocaust survivor Boris Romanchenko is killed in his Kharkiv apartment after it is shot and burns down

A 96-year-old man who had been forced to work underground and on the V-2 rocket by Nazis dies in his home as it is fired upon during a Russian attack, while homes in the Black Sea port city of Odesa are also hit by shelling from the invading forces.

Evening Standard

Londoner running Ukrainian orphanage evacuates 270 children from Odesa warzone

A Londoner rescuing orphans from the horrors of war in Ukraine has hit out at the British Government for not doing enough to accommodate refugees despite the UK’s relative wealth compared to the war-torn eastern European country’s neighbours.

Reuters

Night train to safety: one Ukrainian family's odyssey

Ludmila Lichko wearily cradles her nine-year old son Ivan aboard a crowded train as it pulls out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odesa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country.

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine says it will never surrender its cities as Odesa reports airstrikes on flats

Russia accused of striking residential areas in what would be first attack on Black Sea port

Reuters

Ukraine's Odesa accuses Russia of attacking city outskirts for the first time

Authorities in Odesa accused Russian forces of carrying out a strike on residential buildings in the outskirts of the Ukrainian city early on Monday, the first such attack on the Black Sea port city.

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