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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…

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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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Cargo ship sinks off coast of Ukrainian port Odessa ‘after explosion’

Two crew members in life raft at sea while four others are unaccounted for

The Independent UK

Cargo ship sinks off Ukraine coast after 'hitting sea mine' amid war with Russia

Two crew members were in a life raft at sea while four others were unaccounted for after the Estonian-owned cargo ship Helt sunk off the Ukrainian port of Odessa amid war with Russia

Daily Mirror

Two cargo ships hit by blasts around Ukraine, one seafarer killed

Reuters

First Ukraine city falls as Russia strikes more civilian targets

ODESSA, Ukraine: Russian forces on Wednesday seized the first major Ukrainian city in their onslaught, the strategic port of Kherson, as they stepped up bombardment of civilian targets across the country, put other cities under siege and pushed to encircle and cut off the capital, Kyiv.

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Mum and son trapped after 'terrible journey' from Ukraine warzone hope to make it to UK

Halyna Wright and her son fled their home in Odessa, Ukraine on the first day of the invasion, making their way across the country before escaping into Poland, but they are now stuck there, awaiting a visas to fly to the UK

Daily Mirror

George Skelton: Recalling a '90s Ukraine on the verge of hard-won independence

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Thirty-two years ago, I saw something in Odessa, Ukraine, that still fascinates me.

Los Angeles Times

Bulgaria evacuates its embassy staff from Kyiv

Bulgaria said it is evacuating its embassy staff from the Ukraine capital Kyiv after evacuating the staff from its consular office in Odessa, Foreign Minister Teodora Ganchovska said on Monday.

Reuters

Bulgaria evacuates consular staff from Ukraine's Odessa

Bulgaria has evacuated the staff of its consular mission in the Ukrainian city of Odessa, the foreign ministry spokesman said on Monday.

Reuters

Fighting under way near Kherson, Mykolaiv, Odessa - Ukrainian official

Fighting was under way on Saturday near the southern Ukrainian cities of Mariupol, Kherson, Mykolaiv, and Odessa, an adviser to the Ukrainian president's office said.

Reuters

'She woke up with bombs': Ukrainian diasporas in Latin America protest invasion

Leila Antonovsk, 28, a Ukrainian living in Argentina, fears for the safety of her mother back in Odessa some 12,642 kilometers (7,855 miles) away after an invasion of the Eastern European country by Russian forces this week.

Reuters

Ukrainian filmmaker hopes burgeoning local industry perseveres

As Russia began its invasion of Ukraine on Thursday, local filmmaker Olga Zhurzhenko fled Kyiv, where she had been working on an animated feature, and drove to Odessa to be closer to her family. She was growing worried as she was joined on the roads by her colleagues and other…

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Greek embassy staff leave Kyiv as fighting reaches city's outskirts

Greece's embassy staff and its ambassador in Kyiv are leaving the city, the country's foreign ministry said on Friday, but consulates in Mariupol and Odessa will remain open.

Los Angeles Times

Ukraine's Jews seek refuge in synagogues as Russia invades

Several hours after Odessa awoke to explosions Thursday morning, Avraham Wolff, the city's chief rabbi, got a call from a nearly 90-year-old Holocaust survivor. The man was so distressed he could barely speak.

Reuters

Moldovan-flagged tanker hit by missile on Ukraine coast

A Moldovan-flagged chemical tanker was hit by a missile on Friday near Ukraine's port of Odessa, amid Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, injuring two crew members seriously, an official at Moldova's naval agency said.

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The Independent UK

Russia’s deadly war on Ukraine explained in one map as Putin attacks on three fronts

Graphic shows Putin coming at neighbouring country from all sides

The Guardian - UK

Airstrikes at dawn as Russia begins ‘war of aggression’ with Ukraine

Ukrainians react with defiance as Vladimir Putin launches biggest attack by one European state against another since second world war

Newslaundry

‘You’re on your own’: Airspace shut, Indians stuck in Ukraine seek immediate evacuation

Firoz Ahmad, 22, has been awake since 3 am, glued to his phone in his apartment in Odessa, Ukraine, watching the “darkest hours for Europe since World War Two” unfold.

Reuters

Turkish-owned ship hit by bomb off coast of Odessa, no casualties - Turkish authority

A Turkish-owned ship was hit by a bomb off the coast of Ukraine's port city Odessa on Thursday, Turkey's Maritime General Directorate said, adding there were no casualties and the ship was safely en route into Romanian waters.

The Hindu

Uncertainty grips Indian students stuck in Ukraine

War is now a reality, says one of them in Odessa

Irish Mirror

Live footage above Kyiv, Ukraine as Russian invasion gathers pace

There has been multiple explosions from missile strikes which have hit cities including capital Kyiv and Odessa. Dozens of people are feared dead and many more injured

Reuters

Ukraine says fierce fighting under way at numerous locations

Ukraine on Thursday fought Russian forces along practically its entire border with Russia, and there was fierce fighting in the regions of Sumy, Kharkiv, Kherson, Odessa and at a military airport near Kyiv, an adviser to the presidential office said.

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