UN refugee chief says internal displacement is also growing as Ukrainian forces battle multi-pronged assault.
- Kyiv’s mayor imposes a city-wide curfew lasting until Monday morning after fighting reaches the capital’s streets.
- The United States and its Western allies move to supply Kyiv with weapons as it faces down Russia’s invasion.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country’s forces “have withstood and successfully repelled enemy attacks”.
- Nearly 200 people have been killed so far, including civilians, three of whom were children, according to Ukraine’s health minister.
- More than 150,000 Ukrainians have fled the country since the beginning of Moscow’s assault, the UN says.
- Western countries have announced sweeping sanctions on Moscow, including measures targeting President Vladimir Putin himself.
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Lukashenko and Macron discuss Belarus’s role in Ukraine war, Minsk says
French President Emmanuel Macron and President Alexander Lukashenko – an ally of the Kremlin – have discussed Minsk’s role in the war in Ukraine, the Belarusian leader’s office says.
“The parties discussed Belarus’s position and involvement in the [Ukraine] conflict,” Lukashenko’s office said in a statement. They also talked about “the future of Europe” and “the relationship between Belarus and Russia”, it added.
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