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NGOs and academics say Poland's wall with Belarus violates EU environmental laws. The EU commission says "public safety" exemptions exist — in a possible endorsement of the 186km-long wall.

Three locals near the Polish exclusion zone with Belarus say they cannot leave refugees and migrants to die or freeze in their woods. But by leaving bags of food in the woods, they risk possible fines or worse.

Veteran journalist Mark Di Ionno spent 10 days on the Polish-Ukrainian border and recently returned to the front lines of the conflict.

Russias Vladimir Putin was last week forced into a withering face-saving climbdown - that his forces would focus on liberating the eastern Donbas region instead of trying to take the capital, Kyiv.

As Mykolaiv recovers from an airstrike that killed 20 people at a regional administration building Tuesday, locals and local defence units are refusing to cede a city the Kremlin expected to capture within days of its Feb. 24 invasion.

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Ukrainian forces have recaptured the city of Makariv, to the west of Kyiv and are also attacking in the south and east as generals say 15,600 Russian troops have now been killed.

Mykolaiv is a key obstacle for Russian forces trying to move west from Crimea to take Odesa, Ukraines major port on the Black Sea, and it has taken a battering since Putin launched his invasion.

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the military situation has not changed significantly over the past 24 hours, although “the aggressors have achieved partial success, temporarily seizing localities and establishing control over communication routes” in southern and eastern Ukraine. To compensate for some land failures, the aggressor is striking in other directions using “precision-guided weapons as well as unguided munitions”.

Mariupol risks acquiring the totemic status of Vukovar or Sarajevo during the Yugoslav wars of the 1990s, sieges whose destruction and cruelty sparked indignation around much of the world.