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Another mayor is reported to have been kidnapped by invading Russian forces in Ukraine, triggering condemnation from the EU’s foreign policy chief. 

Polish President Andrzej Duda has said that the use of chemical weapons in Ukraine by Russia would be a game changer and NATO would have to think seriously about how to respond.

A US journalist has been shot dead and another wounded in Irpin, north of Kyiv, multiple media outlets are reporting. 

Pope Francis issued his toughest condemnation yet of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, saying on March 13 that the "unacceptable armed aggression" must stop.

Russian forces are threatening to shoot municipal officials in Kherson, according to a councilor from the Ukrainian city, where the Russian Army has seized control. Sergei Khlan said the Russians were searching for local activists and officials who were now in hiding. This is an excerpt from an interview with Current Time presenter Yevhenia Tahanovych on March 12.

Demonstrations are taking place in many locations across Russia on March 13 to protest Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine with more than 650 detained by police so far.

Kazakhstan’s state anti-corruption agency said it has detained a nephew of former President Nursultan Nazarbaev, the latest in a series of moves against his family. 

Polling in Russia is unreliable, but it’s clear a substantial number of Russians support Vladimir Putin's decision to invade Ukraine, despite tight ties between the two countries. The Kremlin achieved this support through decades of opinion manipulation. Those efforts are now being put to the test.

Italian authorities have seized a superyacht owned by a Russian billionaire placed on an EU sanctions list following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. 

The United States has sanctioned several board members at Novikombank and ABR Management, including Vice Governor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Nikolaevich Knyaginin, over Russia’s war against Ukraine, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said.