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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 Odessa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country. Fleeing with Ivan and her other son, 16-year-old…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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.

Evening Standard

Meet the Ukrainian couples training for war

A generation of Ukrainians who knew of war only from history books and the stories of their grandparents has been forced to prepare to fight, and some are choosing to do it with the partners they were building their lives with only weeks ago.

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Russia Says it Used Hypersonic Missiles in Ukraine

Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday it had destroyed a large underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition in Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region using hypersonic missiles, the Interfax news agency reported. The ministry said it had also destroyed Ukrainian military radio and reconnaissance centers near the port city of Odessa using…

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Defiant Odessa Is Seen Vulnerable to Russian Sea Assault

Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag defenses and "hedgehog" anti-tank barriers as German and Romanian forces approach. Fast forward 81 years, and similar scenes are playing out in the picturesque Black…

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Defiant Odessa is seen vulnerable to Russian sea assault

Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag defences and "hedgehog" anti-tank barriers as German and Romanian forces approach.

Reuters

Sandbags and songs on Odessa beach as Ukrainians help build defences

Residents of Odessa formed a human chain on Monday to carry heavy sandbags from the beach onto waiting trucks as the Ukrainian port city frantically built defences against advancing Russian troops.

Reuters

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Are certain dishes Ukrainian or Russian? It's complicated

LOS ANGELES — "In Ukraine, we were Jews. In America, we are Russians. But in reality, we are from Ukraine, when it was part of the U.S.S.R."

Los Angeles Times

'Brave' elderly couple confront armed Russian soldiers entering their Ukrainian home

It is understood the tense moment between the Ukrainian couple and Russian soldiers happened in Mykolayiv Oblast, about 80 miles east of Odessa in southern Ukraine

Daily Mirror

Russian Forces Squeeze Kyiv, Surround Mariupol

Russian forces inched towards Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sirens sounded Saturday in several cities, including the capital Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkiv,…

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Fearing Russian shelling, Ukrainians try to shield their heritage

After Russian forces began attacking Ukrainian cities such as Mariupol, museums and local authorities rushed to protect their heritage, stowing away precious artworks, religious icons, and fortifying national monuments.

Reuters

Ukrainian naval band plays ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ next to sandbags in Odesa

Odessa is Ukraine’s last remaining major port on the Black Sea

The Independent UK

Ukraine 'destroys' Russian warship that shelled Snake Island on first day of invasion

Video footage appears to capture the shocking moment rockets were fired into the night sky amid the defence of Odessa as residents prepared to defend the city of one million

Daily Mirror

'Don’t Worry, Be Happy': Behind sandbags, Odessa waits to see if it's next

(This March 8 story refiles to correct typographical error in byline)

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Soldiers defending Ukraine's Odessa give flowers for Women's Day

They fear a Russian attack is imminent, but soldiers in Ukraine's Odessa took time to buy friends and family flowers for Women's Day on Tuesday even though life in the Black Sea port has been turned upside down.

The Independent UK

‘We f****** hit them’: Russian warship that attacked Snake Island soldiers ‘destroyed’

Video footage appears to show Ukrainian navy exchanging fire with Russian ships as it defends the Black Sea port of Odessa

France 24

How far will it spiral? Russian invasion draws NATO closer to Ukraine

Does the West go all in? A third day of broken ceasefire promises in Ukraine clearly illustrates that Russia has gone all in and will not settle for anything short of victory on the battlefield. We ask about the latest out of the crucial port cities of Odessa and Mariupol…

Daily Mirror

Video captures moment Ukrainian navy opens fire and appears to hit Russian warship

The video was filmed during the defence of the Odessa region, in southern Ukraine, in the early hours of this morning and shared by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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Ukrainian navy: Russian vessel near Odessa retreated after being struck by Ukrainian gunfire

Ukrainian naval forces defending the Odessa region hit a Russian vessel in the Black Sea with gunfire, Ukraine's navy said on Monday.

Reuters

U.S. does not see imminent Russian amphibious assault of Odessa, U.S. official

The United States does not believe a Russian amphibious assault in or near the Ukrainian city of Odessa is imminent, a senior U.S. defense official said on Sunday, amid growing concern about a potential attack on the city.

France 24

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba: 'Russia is indiscriminately killing civilians'

Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has said that the success of negotiations depends on Russia approaching them with good faith without dictating ultimatums. He spoke with France 24's Marc Perelman about the situation in the cities of Mariupol and Odessa, the negotiations that will take place on Monday and what…

Daily Mirror

Innocents slaughtered as they flee Russia's bombs with 2 major Ukraine cities surrounded

WARNING - DISTRESSING IMAGES: Vladimir Putin's thugs have brought destruction and misery, with major cities surrounded by his forces who "shoot down" those attempting to flee as ceasefires are ignored

Asharq Al-Awsat

Two Cargo Ships Hit by Blasts Around Ukraine, One Killed

An Estonian-owned cargo ship sank on Thursday off Ukraine's major Black Sea port of Odessa, hours after a Bangladeshi vessel was hit by a missile or bomb at a port east of Odessa, underlining the growing peril to merchant shipping after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Many shipping firms have suspended…

Reuters

Too soon to declare that Ukraine's Kherson is in Russian hands, says U.S. official

The United States believes that Russian forces have not yet taken over the Ukrainian city of Kherson, but could use it as part of a strategy for potentially moving to Mykolaiv and then onto Odessa, a senior U.S. defense official said on Thursday.

Reuters

Cargo ship sinks off Odessa after explosion, crew members missing -ship manager

The Estonian-owned cargo ship Helt sunk on Thursday off the Ukrainian port of Odessa after an explosion, the vessel’s manager said.

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