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The chief editor of the television channel Dozhd TV says he has left Russia after the independent online channel's website was blocked by government authorities.

Former Soviet “refusenik”, Natan Sharansky, says Russian President Vladimir Putin took his cue for invading Ukraine from the Free World.

Russian forces have continued to bombard Ukrainian population centers, and paratroopers have landed in Ukraine's second-largest city, Kharkiv.

A missile damaged the memorial at Babyn Yar in Kyiv, where close to 34,000 Jews were killed in two days during 1941, evoking Soviet-era suppression of Jewish suffering during World War II.

Wife, daughter, baby son and parents of Oleg Fedko reportedly killed in attack while cameraman and Israeli DJ among other fatalities

In the space of one week, some of the old certainties about Europe have been thrown out the window.

Andriy Yermak, the Ukrainian presidents top aide, warned that Vladimir Putin would go for blood beyond Ukraine if its allies didnt do more to stop him.

As members of Congress waved small blue and yellow Ukrainian flags, U.S. President Joe Biden came to his first State of the Union address on the evening of March 1 with tough words for his autocratic adversaries.

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