Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and exclusive reporting. ", "Throughout our history we've learned this lesson when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos," Mr. Biden said. "We took these steps due to security and safety issues stemming from the unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian military forces in Ukraine," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. Ukraine - latest news, breaking stories and comment - The Independent Ukraine News Egypt raises price of gasoline in latest hike amid inflation Europe Putin says Ukraine attacking. The Russian army has been regrouping and massing its forces over the past 24 hours "primarily to encircle and take control of Kyiv and other major cities," the general staff of Ukraine's armed forces wrote on Facebook. Local media reported that there were several explosions and that Ukrainian TV channels stopped broadcasting shortly afterward. 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President Biden expected to discuss Ukraine, economy and mental health in first State of the Union, Thousands of refugees leave Ukraine, women and children flee as the men remain to fight, U.S. expands Russia sanctions, targets Central Bank, United Nations meets for emergency special session. A regional official said 11 people were killed overnight in the shelling of Kharkiv alone. The U.N. estimates that 12 million Ukranians need protection and relief. The U.K. foreign secretary estimated it would be a 10-year war. This U.S. official says it is not clear whether Russia would gradually strangle the city or engage in street-to-street fighting. She noted that the U.S. and Russia have in the past agreed the use of nuclear weapons would have "devastating consequences" and "a nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought.". 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Kyrylenko wrote on Facebook. The Russian advance on Kyiv has slowed in the past few days because of logistical and sustainment problems, including running out of food for troops, according to a senior defense official. Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have already escaped Russia's bombardment of their country into neighboring nations, and many thousands more are still trying to get out. The Russian advances on both Kharkiv and Kyiv have been slowed by fuel and logistical shortages and by the stiff and "creative" resistance by the Ukrainians, according to the official. KYIV (Reuters) -Ukrainian forces defending Bakhmut are facing increasingly strong pressure from Russian forces, British military intelligence said on Saturday, with intense fighting taking place in and around the eastern city. "It's really biggest joy that can happen," Tania Adolf, Victoria's mother, told CBS Miami. ROME (AP) Pope Francis will visit Hungary at the end of April, the Vatican said Monday, in a trip expected to focus on migration to Europe and Russias war in Ukraine. Faint cracks emerge in the facade of Putin's rule, one year after Ukraine invasion, How Ukraine became a testbed for Western weapons and battlefield innovation, What causes armies to lose the will to fight? KYIV, Ukraine Ukraine braced for an all-out assault on its capital early Saturday, after a day in which the military blew up a bridge to slow the advance of Russian soldiers . Fighters Bound for Ukraine. Throughout the conflict, he has sought to reassure his people by providing selfie-stylevideo updatesin Ukraine and even offering words of encouragement during dire moments. And we will continue here at the United Nations and around the world to use every possible lever we have at our disposal to expose his actions.". The situation is dynamic, so this remains an estimate on what is militarily possible. Russian teams have been suspended from international soccer. At Lviv's main train station in Western Ukraine, thousands are trying desperately to get out. The number who have entered Poland alone, fleeing across Ukraine's western frontier, stood at about 156,000 people, the Polish border guard said on Sunday. On Monday, World Taekwondo voiced its own opposition and stripped Putin of his black belt. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko shared a video of the tower being hit. Details surrounding the shooting are unclear, pointing to the chaotic situation as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and thousands of foreigners seek to escape the fighting. Russia has denied involvement. The key southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol on the Azov Sea lost power due to attacks from advancing Russian forces, the head of the region, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said Tuesday. Russian and Ukrainian representatives were meeting Monday just over the Ukrainian border in Belarus for the first direct talks between the countries since Russia's invasion. "My determination is to see that the EU, NATO, all of our allies are on the same exact page on sanctions against the Russian invasion," the president said. After weeks under Putin's bombs, these Ukrainians were given only one way out, They tried to take a boat to safety. WASHINGTON (AP) The Pentagons inspector general said Tuesday his office has found no evidence yet that any of the billions of dollars in weapons and aid to Ukraine has been lost to corruption or diverted into the wrong hands, but cautioned that those investigations are only in their early stages. "They are in our hearts and thoughts.". We cannot let him go anymore," Zhanna, a volunteer working on one of the barricades, told CBS News. "Part of why I'm in Omaha is a part of our ability to assess and be satisfied in terms of our defensive posture," Richard said. KYIV, Ukraine (AP) Drones that the Kremlin said were launched by Ukraine flew deep inside Russian territory, including one that got within 100 kilometers (60 miles) of Moscow, signaling breaches in Russian defenses as President Vladimir Putin ordered stepped-up protection at the border. Simple things. ", "Football is fully united here and in full solidarity with all the people affected in Ukraine," FIFA and UEFA said. Live updates: Latest news on Russia and the war in Ukraine Updated Mon, Mar 21 20222:15 PM EDT Share More than 90% of Ukrainians believe their country will win the war; Zelenskyy warns of WWIII. The central square of Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv, was shelled by advancing Russian forces Tuesday, hitting the building of the local administration, regional governor Oleg Sinegubov said. Vladimir Medinsky headed the Russian delegation in Belarus. TIRANA, Albania (AP) The U.S. has high expectations for a European Union-sponsored plan aimed at easing long-standing tensions between Serbia and Kosovo, a senior U.S. Cyprus' new president affirmed the island nation's Western foreign policy orientation as a member of the European Union that seeks to further strengthen its bonds with the U.S. KUPIANSK, Ukraine (AP) A tank carrying Ukrainian infantry speeds toward a target position marked with a metal sheet. The advance "remains slowed," according to the official, because of two main factors: the stiff resistance from the Ukrainians and the Russians' own logistic and sustainment problems, like running out of fuel. The images also showed "additional ground forces deployments and ground attack helicopter units" in southern Belarus near the Ukraine border. Her bloody pyjama pants were decorated with cartoon unicorns. I am sure we deserve it. As CBS News correspondent Chris Livesay reported, Poland, which sits on Ukraine's western border, has already allowed more than 200,000 Ukrainians to enter. (Reuters) -Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu has paid a rare visit to Russia's forces deployed in Ukraine, awarding medals to military personnel and meeting senior commanders during the trip, a statement and videos issued by his ministry showed on Saturday. Since 2015, when Putin dispatched his troops to Syria to help President Bashar al-Assad maintain his hold on power, the Russian military has been attacking civilians in opposition-held areas . 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The conflict continues to have far-reaching consequences, including widespread economic and political impacts, and a lasting impact on the lives of millions of people. Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the worlds largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Ukraine officials say a series of Russian strikes have hit a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv, igniting a huge fire and frantic rescue effort in a 15-storey apartment building.