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Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky has denied the West’s version of events in Ukraine.

A gesture of trust or a chance for Russia to regroup in Ukraine? Vladimir Putin’s military have signalled that they will “fundamentally” scale back operations around two of Ukraine’s key battlegrounds.

Will targeting oligarchs stop Putin?

There are conflicting claims over whether the now-sanctioned Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich and Ukrainian peace negotiators have suffered poisoning symptoms.

Odesa in Ukraine, has a namesake thousands of miles away – Little Odesa in New York. 

Basketball stars in the US claim they have been told not to make a “big fuss” in public about Olympic medalist Brittney Griner, who has been detained in Russia since February. 

In the south, there are reports the Ukrainian military is fighting Russian forces on the edge of the region of Kherson. The city of Kherson was the first big urban center taken by the Russians at the very beginning of the war. Both Kherson and Mykolaiv are strategic towns on the Black Sea linking the…

President Biden called the fight against President Putin’s war on Ukraine a “new battle for freedom” and he has promised more military support for the war effort.  

With the war in Ukraine nearly four weeks old, is the West any closer to putting its finger on what Russia wants or how to negotiate with Vladimir Putin?

The Ukrainian authorities have accused Russian forces of kidnapping 2,389 children from the Donbas region in the east and taking them to Russia.

Nearly a month into this war, fighting continues but with few major new gains on either side. 

Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said that Russia’s goal is not to occupy the whole of Ukraine but warned it has not yet achieved all it wants.

In Lviv, the city has functioned as somewhat of a safe haven for many of those fleeing the fighting. Some have now reached here from Mariupol.

In Kyiv, eight people have been killed after Russian shelling destroyed a shopping centre in a residential district, along with nearby buildings.

More than 150,000 people in the UK have expressed an interest in offering homes to people who have fled Ukraine – but critics say the government’s scheme will be unworkable unless it scraps a lot of the excessive red tape.