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Russia's Defense Ministry says its forces have attacked and destroyed two military airfields in the Ukrainian cities of Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk and taken them out of action as the Russian military appears to widen its three-week invasion of Ukraine.

Popular Soviet-era cinema director and writer Rustam Ibragimbekov has died at the age of 83 in Moscow.

As the war in Ukraine rages, ordinary Russians face a degree of international isolation not seen in decades. What will Putin do next?

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that foreigners should be allowed to join the war against Ukrainian forces and approved the handover of captured Western missile systems to Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine.

Was the Kremlin decision to invade Ukraine based on flawed intelligence? Or was it good intelligence that was misused? A bogged-down military campaign, and an arrest in Moscow, add to intrigue. 

As the war in Ukraine rages, ordinary Russians face a degree of international isolation not seen in decades. What will Putin do next?

Kira Yarmysh, the spokeswoman for jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, has been added to Russia's wanted list on unspecified charges.

Obstetrician-gynecologist Kyrylo Ventskivskiy was working a night shift when Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. He delivered the first baby born in wartime Ukraine. He's only gone home once since then. The work of his perinatal center in Kyiv has moved to the more primitive conditions of a bomb shelter. He spoke to Current Time about that first night and the work he is doing now.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris said on March 11 that Russian President Vladimir Putin shows no sign of being willing to engage in diplomacy, during a visit to Romania where she praised the country for taking in thousands of people fleeing the fighting in neighboring Ukraine.

YouTube on March 11 broadened its blocking of Russian state-linked media channels to apply internationally after initially barring them only in Europe following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.