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West ramps up support for Ukraine but refuses its main ask: A no-fly zone

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian forces pressed their offensive against key Ukrainian cities Friday in a heavy bombing and shelling campaign that has led to a ballooning humanitarian disaster, spurred a growing exodus of people and raised fears of a wider calamity after Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant was set ablaze.

Los Angeles Times

PM warns of nuclear disaster risk after Ukrainian power plant shelled

Boris Johnson said ‘however long it takes, however arduous’, Russian president Vladimir Putin ‘must fail’.

The Independent UK

A Ukraine town evacuates as Russian forces edge closer to Kyiv

IRPIN, Ukraine — The last minutes before the train pulled out were chaos: A mass of people pushed toward the carriage doors as uniformed

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Minn. governor tells state agencies to cut ties with Russia

Tribune News Service

Power cut off in Sumy, stranded Kerala students in Ukraine run out of water & food

KOCHI/KOTTAYAM: Around 600 students stranded in two hostels of Sumy State University in Ukraine are in a state of panic as they fear that time is running out for them to escape from the war-torn city. There were two major blasts on either side of their hostel block on Thursday…

The Times of India

Minnesota Gov. Walz orders state agencies to cut ties with Russia

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz is directing more than two dozen state agencies to terminate any contracts with Russian entities, as states across the nation join the federal government in imposing sanctions on Russia following its invasion of Ukraine.

Tribune News Service

Will old Christian prophecy protect Ukraine?

Kateryna Yushchenko, the Chicago-born wife of the ex-Ukrainian president, called attention to a mosaic of the Virgin Mary in Kyiv that legend has it protects the country from atop its perch in St. Sophia cathedral.

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Ukrainian Navy scuttles flagship as Russia advances on Mykolaiv

Defence minister says Kyiv ‘building new fleet’

The Independent UK

North Korea fires 'projectile' into sea days after refusing to denounce Russia

A suspected ballistic missile has been launched by North Korea into the sea, according to a statement by the South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff which is the ninth missile launch this year

Daily Mirror

We feel abandoned by the West: Ukrainian MP condemns UK and US response to war

Inna Sovsun said the rollout of sanctions against Russia ‘isn’t on the same speed as the rollout of the atrocities of the war’.

The Independent UK

‘The worst possible nightmare’: voices from Ukrainian football as war rages

Four players and a coach with Ukrainian clubs reveal how their lives have been turned upside down by Russia’s invasion

The Guardian - UK

The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 5 March 2022

The latest IPCC report dropped on the same day that eastern Australia was swamped by the worst floods in years. While we must include all the usual caveats (no one meteorological event is caused by climate change, etc.), you can still don your detective's cap.

inkl Originals

Binance founder says cryptocurrencies won’t help Russia evade sanctions

Trading platform boss says "‘crypto is too small for Russia’ and more focus should be placed on the banking system

The Guardian - UK

Russian troops fought for control of a nuclear power plant in Ukraine – a safety expert explains how warfare and nuclear power are a volatile combination

Russian forces have taken control of Europe’s largest nuclear power plant after shelling the Zaporizhzhia facility in the Ukrainian city of Enerhodar.

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The Independent UK

Zelensky attacks Nato in emotional nighttime address: ‘All the people who die from this day forward will die because of you’

Earlier US’s top diplomat said enforcing a no-fly zone risked ‘full-fledged war in Europe’

Tribune News Service

Give Ukraine US aircraft, Democratic lawmaker urges

WASHINGTON — A Democrat on the House Armed Services Committee suggested a significant escalation in the U.S. role in the war for Ukraine on Friday, urging the Biden administration to give Ukraine U.S. military aircraft to attack a Russian convoy.

The Independent UK

West says Russia attacked nuke plant, Russia blames Ukraine

The United States and its allies are accusing Russia of attacking Ukraine’s largest nuclear power plant and putting the lives of millions of Europeans at risk of radiation fallout

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The Independent UK

Ukrainians in US consider taking advantage of new status

Ukrainians in the U.S. are reacting to a move by President Biden to grant them humanitarian relief known as Temporary Protected Status after Russia invaded their country

Reuters

Underground U.S. groups funnel fighters, medics to Ukraine

A former U.S. military linguist is arming volunteers with Russian phrases like "put your weapon down" before they head to Ukraine to fight. Another U.S. veteran said he was in Ukraine linking volunteers to groups on the ground.

France 24

As it happened: Russia resumes Mariupol offensive, Israeli PM steps into mediator's role

Russia's defence ministry said Saturday it had resumed "offensive actions" in Ukraine after announcing a ceasefire earlier in the day to allow residents of two besieged cities of Mariupol and neighbouring Volnovakha to evacuate. The Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said that "not a single civilian" was able to…

Daily Mirror

Chronically-ill kids escape Ukraine in makeshift 'hospital train' amid Russian bombing

The chronically ill Ukrainian children and their mums packed into the transformed train wagon, which allowed them to receive treatment as they fled to Poland

The Guardian - UK

Italian police seize yacht owned by Russia’s richest man

$27m boat impounded after EU blacklists owner Alexei Mordashov following Moscow’s attacks on Ukraine

Daily Record

Facebook and Instagram banned in Russia, country's communications regulator confirms

The move is a major escalation in an ongoing confrontation between big tech companies and Russia, which has in recent years issued a slew of fines and hobbled services through slowdowns.

The Independent UK

‘The world’s greatest dirty money laundromat’: How America’s financial secrecy laws enabled Russian oligarchs to hide their wealth

Expert on kleptocracy says US needs to clean up anonymity laws to find oligarch wealth. Richard Hall reports

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