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The fight for the Black Sea port could influence the outcome of the war and affect regional security, experts say.

The document, which both Romania and Bulgaria are signatories to, restricts the passage of navy ships that do not belong to the Black Sea. Defence analysts have pointed out that controlling the city would enable the Russian forces to open a land corridor to the breakaway region of Transnistria, which has sought independence from Moldova since the 1990s. Founded in 1794 by Russian Empress Catherine the Great, Odesa became a crucial seaport and a cosmopolitan urban centre, home not only to Russians and Ukrainians, but also to Armenian, Bulgarian, Greek, Jewish and other communities. “For Russia, the complete control of the Ukraine’s Black Sea and the Sea of Azov coasts may [be more important] than the seizure of Kharkiv or western Ukraine combined.” Ukraine does not have any other large ports to rely on in case it loses control of its third largest city, allowing Russia to effectively dominate the whole of the northern Black Sea coast. The Ukrainian military has already established defensive positions across Odesa, imposed a curfew and set up roadblocks at all entrances to the city of one million people.

Russia and Ukraine struggle to establish humanitarian corridors to evacuate Ukrainian civilians. Moscow set a new deadline for Ukraine to agree to humanitarian ...

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Experts analyse the Russian president's claims of 'genocide' as justification for Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

How would the state perpetrate a genocide on the territories it doesn’t even have access to?” So, answering your question, only genocide is committed with the intent to erase a group,” she said. If it had proof, you can be sure Russia would have provided it long ago.” None. Russia has made vague references to mass graves and civilian attacks. The definition of genocide, according to the UN, is “acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such”. Russia has been arguing that what was happening to the residents of the Donbas region was a genocide, and it had a responsibility to step in and help them.

US President Joe Biden announced a ban on Russian energy imports to the US as Ukraine's President urged the UK Parliament to strengthen sanctions against ...

Windows are cracked and pieces of wood and building debris lie scattered in the streets. Though much of Irpin had been left without water supply, electricity, and heating, Perebeinis was hesitant to leave the city because she had been taking care of her sick mother. Khirvonina said she did not know where Perebeinis and the children were planning on fleeing to, but that it likely would have been a western Ukrainian city. Her family became the victim of the unprovoked fire on civilians, which under any law is a crime against humanity," the company said in the statement. Ksenia Khirvonina, a PR manager for SE Ranking, said Perebeinis was originally from Donetsk and fled to Kyiv in 2014 following the city's occupation. The city council of Bucha said 50 buses had been blocked by the Russian military in nearby Stoyanka. Why were they a threat to Russian Federation? What kind of country is the Russian Federation that is afraid of hospitals, afraid of maternity wards and destroys them?" “From day to day, we are seeing a worsening situation at the Chornobyl NPP, especially for radiation safety, and for the staff managing the facility under extremely difficult and challenging circumstances,” Grossi said. to evacuate to safe places of free Ukraine. And I'm sure that every Ukrainian that knows these people need help will make sure these people feel cared for," he said. The site also has reserve emergency power supplies with diesel generators and batteries," IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said in a statement. Residents have been cut off from water and electricity for days, and on Tuesday Ukraine's Foreign Minister accused Russia of committing war crimes by holding 300,000 civilians “hostage.” Photos show bodies being placed into a mass grave in the city. Grossi said they have been effectively living there, working around the clock and unable to rotate shifts.

Russia and Ukraine agreed to open evacuation routes in a half dozen Ukrainian cities Wednesday morning. Ukrainian officials said that several towns west of Kyiv ...

“If you are going to export natural gas and it's going to reduce coal-fired generation in Poland, for instance, that actually is a net-positive,” Mr. Glick said while speaking to reporters. Mr. Glick disputed those claims, saying the agency is trying to craft a better permitting process that is both faster and likely to avert lengthy legal disputes. The impulse to stigmatize and disavow all things Russian is an understandable reaction to brazen aggression; it is a gesture of solidarity with besieged counterparts. He also said FERC had never rejected a terminal application and that of 18 approved, only nine have been built. He added that if Democrats can't hold the House and the Senate, "it's going to be a sad, sad two years." Industry officials have questioned whether the Biden administration’s commitment to cleaner fuels would hinder the development of gas-export terminals at a time when Europe wants more Western fuel as a bulwark against Russian aggression. Congress has included measures in the fiscal 2022 spending bill to ease the transfer of the jets. The president of the United States is doing an exceptional job in uniting the world to support Ukraine," he said. That started at the first appearance Monday, when presidential climate adviser John Kerry endorsed gas as an important export to the developing world. "The idea of all-of-the-above capabilities to enable them to create a no-fly zone is actually quite strong," he said. "Any lawless decision by Russia to seize the assets of these companies will ultimately result in even more economic pain for Russia," she wrote. Mr. Sullivan said that the pressure from Congress was similar to the push from Capitol Hill to ban imported Russian oil.

US rejects Polish offer of fighter jets to help Ukraine as Russia claims it is opening humanitarian corridors from Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy, ...

Civilians have been unable to leave Izyum because of continued Russian shelling in the eastern Kharkiv region, said the regional governor, Oleh Synyehubov, adding that buses intended to evacuate them were still waiting at the entrance to the town. Ukrainian authorities have said the power supply has been cut to the defunct Chernobyl power plant. A children’s hospital and maternity ward in the southern Ukrainian city of Mariupol has been destroyed by a Russian airstrike this afternoon, Ukrainian officials say.

Buses and cars have evacuated some civilians from the besieged eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy but authorities in Kyiv accused Moscow of shelling a similar ...

The World Health Organization said attacks on Ukrainian hospitals, ambulances and other healthcare facilities hadincreased “rapidly”in recent days and vital medical supplies were running low. The UK will phase out imports of Russian oil by the end of 2022 and is exploring options to ending gas imports, the energy secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, has said. They said so far Russian forces had also lost 48 aircraft, 80 helicopters, 303 tanks, 1,036 armed vehicles, 120 artillery pieces and 27 anti-aircraft warfare systems.

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest War in Ukraine news every morning. Russian troops are moving against Kyiv from a new front, ...

President Vladimir Putin could still reduce cities in Ukraine to rubble, officials say. But European countries that once feared Russia say they are not so ...

Russian tank units, for instance, have deployed with too few soldiers to fire and protect the tanks, officials said. “It looks like the Ukrainians have been most successful when ambushing Russian troops,” Mr. Bullock said. But they are advancing on winding roads and their flanks and supply routes are overly exposed to Ukrainian attacks.” Why have the Russians performed so poorly in the early days of the war? Russia’s military leadership, with Gen. Valery Gerasimov at the top, is far too centralized; lieutenants must ask him for permission even on small matters, said the officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss operational matters. Russia remains keen to play down the war and provides little information about its victories or defeats, contributing to an incomplete picture. Even if they don’t, the officials say a frustrated Mr. Putin has the firepower to simply reduce Ukraine to rubble — although he would be destroying the very prize he wants. Many of the more than 150,000 largely conscripted troops that Moscow has deployed across Ukraine have been bogged down north of Kyiv, the capital. That Russia has so quickly abandoned surgical strikes, instead killing civilians trying to flee, could damage Mr. Putin’s chances of winning a long-term war in Ukraine. The brutal tactics may eventually overwhelm Ukraine’s defenses, but they will almost certainly fuel a bloody insurgency that could bog down Russia for years, military analysts say. The Russian soldiers have been plagued by poor morale as well as fuel and food shortages. “If you look at what’s on the other side, you’ll see that there isn’t really an opponent anymore,” he said. To be sure, most military experts say that Russia will eventually subdue Ukraine’s army.

Ukraine's foreign ministry accuses Russia of violating ceasefire by shelling humanitarian corridor; Poland ready to transfer jets to US.

“There are about 500 Russian soldiers and 50 units of heavy equipment inside the station. The other was a Cuban American detained on unrelated charges, they said. Xi described the situation in Ukraine as “worrying” and said the priority should be preventing it from escalating or “spinning out of control”. Chinese President Xi Jinping called for “maximum restraint” in Ukraine overnight and said China is “pained to see the flames of war reignited in Europe”in his strongest statement to date on the conflict, Reuters reports. How high oil prices will need to go depends primarily on how much and for how long the market will need to shun export barrels from Russia and whether other buyers, such as China, will step in to increase its purchases of oil from Russia. A Polish plan to provide fighter jets to Ukraine will not go ahead as after the US government described it as “not tenable”.

Ukrainian troops repulsed efforts by Russian forces to enter Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. Russian forces have repeatedly tried to seize the ...

- McDonald’s, Starbucks and L’Orealare temporarily closing all outlets in Russia. Coca-Cola and Pepsi suspended sales in the country. - Ukrainian troops repulsed efforts by Russian forces to enter Kharkiv, regional governor Oleh Synehubov said. Ukraine says its forces have killed more than 11,000 Russian troops.

Ukraine's president addresses the House of Commons as the UK and US announce bans on Russian oil imports.

Combat went on around the strategic town of Izyum, eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces advanced as they attempted to encircle some of the country's most ...

Mr. Hochstein added that the best alternative is to help the continent accelerate its long-term push to boost the supply of clean energy.\n\n“Where we are going to work together in this regard is to see how Europe can diversify away from its dependence on Russian fossil fuels,” Mr. Hochstein said. HOUSTON—Amos Hochstein, the State Department's energy envoy, says Russia’s attack on Ukraine shows the West should accelerate its push for cleaner energy as a way to avoid reliance on Russia and other hostile nations that supply oil and gas.\n\n“This conflict has made it clear to us that we should double down and triple down on the transition, and to make it broader, bigger and faster,” Mr. Hochstein said on a panel at CERAWeek by S&P Global, an annual energy conference in Houston. In the short term, he said, the federal government should also work to ensure the supply of fossil fuels is large enough to meet demand.

Russia has proposed a new ceasefire starting 10 a.m. Moscow time Tuesday (or 2 a.m. ET) in five Ukrainian cities. Ukraine has yet to formally agree to the ...

Following US President Joe Biden's announcement today that his administration is banning Russian energy imports, Pelosi said in a letter to colleagues that the House would vote on a bill that follows similar steps. "The US action is a unified message to Mr. Putin that his invasion and indiscriminate killing in Ukraine will result in consequences that will be harsh and protracted. Yes, the action will increase gas prices in the US and that is why I call upon the Biden administration to return the US to complete energy independence so we don’t have to depend upon despots for our energy supply." Now the House is moving ahead tomorrow on a different anti-Russia bill that would instead review Russia’s status in the World Trade Organization, while reauthorizing the Magnitsky sanctions law and banning Russian energy imports. But a Democratic leadership aide says that Republicans would not commit to giving them enough votes to get the bill through under suspension. The time is now to make America energy independent — again." "Importantly, we have to recognize we can't drill our way out of confrontation with authoritarian states. He is not one of the so-called "CITGO 6." In the future, if any among these foreign nationals would like to become Ukrainian citizens, our legislation provides a pathway for that," he said, according to Ukrinform. On Feb. 25, Ukrainian Armed Forces Lt. Gen. Valery Zaluzhny said a ship sailing under the flag of Moldova, 12 miles (19 kilometers) south of the port of Yuzhny, had been "damaged by a Russian ship." “Every step we take is intended to deter aggression and reassure our allies.” Some 21 people were reported killed in the city in an airstrike Monday night.

Biden announced a Russian oil ban, a move likely to raise gas prices, while more than 2 million refugees have left Ukraine. Zelenskyy said he will stay in ...

“What you see is that the oil industry is imposing a de facto ban on oil from Russia, so, in essence, that takes oil off the market,” he said. "They will only be even angrier, more cunning, more effective and more painful to hit the enemy!" The findings also noted a rise from late February to early March in the share of people in Moscow who believe "conflicting parties should immediately cease all military operations and engage in peace talks." "You will not break the resistance of the defenders of Sumy by killing civilians!" "Whether Russians actually support the hideous war that Putin has waged against Ukraine is a matter of utmost political importance. President Joe Biden is expected to announce Tuesday morning that the U.S. will ban imports of Russia oil. He said the transition will give the market, businesses and supply chains more than enough time to replace Russian imports, which make up 8 percent of U.K. demand. Macron continues to be one of the few leaders keeping an open line of communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We will continue to monitor and assess the situation as circumstances evolve." Ukraine is proud of its resistance, he said, and continues to hold out hope as it pushes back against Russian forces. Amazon announced Tuesday that it would no longer allow new customers in Russia and Belarus to sign up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), the company’s cloud computing service. In a memo to employees obtained by CNBC, CEO Ramon Laguarta said Pepsico was suspending the sale of its soft drinks in the country but would continue manufacturing some other goods there.

CIA director says Putin's assumptions about Ukraine before the invasion turned out to be 'profoundly flawed'.

The CIA’s Burns predicted an “ugly next few weeks” of fighting. “We’re banning all imports of Russian oil and gas and energy. The war has forced two million people to flee the country and devastated areas across Ukraine with major cities, including the capital Kyiv, facing Russian bombardment and siege.

Ukraine evacuated a besieged city's humanitarian corridor Tuesday as President Joe Biden moved to ban Russian oil imports in the wake of Putin's invasion.

Around 3 percent of U.S. oil imports came from Russia last year, according to the American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers trade association. Civilians have increasingly borne the brunt of Russian airstrikes, with hospitals, schools, residential buildings and vital infrastructure coming under fire. The exact figures are likely to be much higher, it added. Those on board waiting to depart for the Ukrainian city of Poltava wore masks and sat surrounded by bags. Biden announced the U.S. ban on Russian oil imports Tuesday morning. Failed efforts to evacuate people trapped in other hard-hit areas across the country have left them without heat, electricity, water and food. “It is like a nightmare for them,” he said. Elderly and vulnerable people were among those fleeing nearby Russian forces, although a humanitarian corridor there was not officially in effect, officials said. We will fight on the seas, in the air and defend our land at any cost. We will fight in the forests, fields, beaches, cities, villages, on the streets. We will fight till the end. “I think Putin is angry and frustrated right now,” Burns said.

US president says move aims to put pressure on Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to end deadly attacks on Ukraine.

“We will commit profits from the limited, remaining amounts of Russian oil we will process to a dedicated fund. Biden acknowledged that on Tuesday, saying the US understands that many of its European allies “may not be in a position” to impose a similar ban. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said the move could more than double the price of oil to about $300 a barrel. The company’s CEO, Ben van Beurden, also apologised for buying Russian crude last week, saying the decision “was not the right one” amid the continuing war in Ukraine. That means Russian oil will no longer be acceptable at US ports and the American people will deal another powerful blow to Putin’s war machine,” he told reporters. “Encourage other countries and leaders to follow,” Zelenskyy tweeted on Tuesday afternoon.

A humanitarian corridor out of the besieged Ukrainian city of Sumy will continue to function, local authorities say, but residents in Kyiv have been told to ...

The radioactive cloud could be carried by wind to other regions of Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, and Europe," it said in a statement. She will also engage with Ukrainian refugees in Poland, discuss continuing humanitarian and security assistance to Ukraine and the region, they said. By comparison, Poland has taken in more than 1.2 million Ukrainians. They share a border with Ukraine, where thousands of refugees are flooding in. The plant remains under Russian control. Many countries in other parts of Europe have allowed Ukrainian refugees to enter without visas. By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga By Jessica Riga

Kyiv says it has opened exit routes for civilians from several cities and towns, urges Russian forces to hold fire.

Today's main developments: US and UK announce bans on Russian oil imports, Moscow agrees to ceasefire in 'humanitarian corridor', says Kyiv; More big ...

Russian forces disrupted humanitarian escape corridors established around the cities of Mariupol and Sumy, according to a U.K. Defence Ministry intelligence ...

"We have had a team of journalists in Ukraine and the region bearing witness to the unfolding conflict," he wrote. A child died of dehydration in the city." The White House and the Department of Energy did not immediately respond to CNBC's requests for comment. The BBC, however, reversed its decision to cease reporting from inside Russia. "We will tell this crucial part of the story independently and impartially, adhering to the BBC's strict editorial standards," a representative for the UK outlet said. "As an immediate first step, the company will stop all spot purchases of Russian crude oil. "And it makes me so proud that so many Americans are willing to pay a little bit more at the pump in order to accelerate the end of this war." "I don't have a specific number for days of supply that the population has but with supplies being cut off it will become somewhat desperate. "The company has also ceased to sell and service simulators for Russian airlines as well as healthcare distributors." Approximately 70 missiles have been fired from inside Belarus and less than 10 missiles have been launched from naval assets in the Black Sea. "We will fight till the end at sea, in the air. The company, which makes 9% of its revenue from Russia, had taken heat for staying silent on the war. Civilian casualties continue to rise in Ukraine amid continuous Russian attacks on cities across the country.

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war : LVIV, Ukraine — Ukraine's energy minister said Russian forces that now control a Ukrainian nuclear plant ...

He said the transition period “will give the market, businesses and supply chains more than enough time to replace Russian imports,” which account for 8% of U.K. demand. The defense ministry said the missiles can take down airplanes, helicopters and cruise missiles up to an altitude of 20 kilometers (12.4 miles). It has also refused to allow the return of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes in what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. She warned of the risk of “a backsliding of women’s rights and women’s access to employment and livelihoods” in the war-torn country. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations hailed their bravery in defending their homes and country. He suggested setting up a hotline between Russia and Ukraine to coordinate the evacuation. Ukrainian officials said that Russian shelling again made it impossible for civilians to use the corridors on Tuesday despite a deal reached a day earlier. She said that “the most terrifying and devastating of this invasion are the child casualties,” mentioning eight-year-old Alice who died on the streets of Okhtyrka while her grandfather tried to protect her. She said the city was in a “catastrophic situation” cut from water, power and communications, adding that a child in Mariupol has died of dehydration. He said it’s not clear to the U.S. that there is a substantive rationale for it. “Right now, millions of Ukrainian children and their mothers are trembling at every sound in the subway stations and bomb shelters. Russia describes the war as a “special military operation” and says it is conducting targeted attacks.

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Pentagon on Tuesday rejected Poland's surprise announcement that it would give the United States its MiG-29 fighter jets for use ...

One begins with the “donation” of Poland’s MiGs to the United States, as Poland announced on Tuesday. The handover of Poland’s 28 Soviet-made MiG-29s would signal Western resolve to do more for Ukraine. Militarily, however, the number of planes offered would make it unlikely to be a game-changer. Ukrainian pilots would then come to fly them to Ukraine. A senior U.S. defense official has said Ukrainians are flying relatively few of their existing aircraft, for relatively little time, as it is. Poland publicly floated its plan the day before Vice President Kamala Harris is scheduled to depart for Warsaw for talks with Polish officials. The proposed gift of more warplanes would be a morale booster for Ukrainians under pounding Russian assault for nearly two weeks. It can be fighter jets, whatever possible,” he said. Under one scenario, Poland would deliver the fighter jets to the U.S. base in Germany, where they would be repainted and flown to a non-NATO, non-EU country. Ukraine has been pleading for more warplanes as it resists mightier Russian forces. In order to maintain the pretense that NATO and the EU are not direct participants in the Ukraine conflict, U.S. and Polish officials have been considering a variety of options. The Polish Foreign Ministry announced the plan in a statement, which said the jets would be delivered to Ramstein free of charge. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said Poland’s declaration that it intended to deliver the 28 jets to the U.S. Ramstein Air Base in Germany raised the concerning prospect of warplanes departing from a U.S. and NATO base to fly into airspace contested with Russia in the Ukraine conflict.

Russia has proposed a new ceasefire starting 10 a.m. Moscow time Tuesday (or 2 a.m. ET) in five Ukrainian cities. Ukraine has yet to formally agree to the ...

It also has kitchen and dining room for the train crew. A video report from Russian state media outlet Channel One in February 2020 gave an extensive look at the Baikal, one of Russia's two armored trains. The Baikal is also were equipped with anti-aircraft turrets, 20mm thick walls, in addition to machine gun and sniper stations.

Security and defence analyst Michael Clarke tells Sky News why the Russian military appears to be struggling in Ukraine - and what Russian President ...

"That's the fate that now awaits him," he says. They're keeping the traffic jam jammed." even though the Russian public don't hear much about this, mothers don't know what's happened to their sons," he says. He says it is unlikely there will be a popular revolution in Russia "because there's no mechanism for it" and Mr Putin is not that unpopular with "ordinary Russian people" in the central and eastern parts of the country. "It won't be a comfortable position to be in but the Oddesans at the moment are determined not to roll over." He says the latest information we have is that the convoy is trying to back up to create a bit of space and "not doing very well". "There's a naval assault waiting to go in on Odesa when the ground forces get there," he says - but "they've been waiting a while". "They're not attacking the tanks, they're attacking the fuel. "The one city that they've got is Kherson in the south, and they're not really in control of that either." "They've got three main axes of attack: through Kyiv, in the south in Mariupol to link up with the north, and in the west towards Odesa," he says. "The problem the Russians have got is in trying to occupy a country that doesn't want you there," Prof Clarke says. The Russian military is losing "significant" equipment, "about to run out of available troops" and failing to move its convoy into Kyiv, according to a security and defence analyst.