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Updates from BBC correspondents in Ukraine and the region: Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Sarah Rainsford in Dnipro, Fergal Keane in Lviv, Steve Rosenberg in Moscow and teams on Ukraine's western border

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Russian shipping to exist banned from U.s. airspace

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The BBC's United states of america partner CBS News reports that the Us volition presently close its airspace to Russian aircraft.

European nations and Canada have already shut their ain airspace to air traffic from Russia.

An order that bars Russian owned and operated aircraft from the US is expected within the next 24 hours.

Some flights from Russia to the U.s.a. accept already been cancelled.
Two reportedly killed in airstrike on Zhytomoyr

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Two people have been killed in an air strike on the city of Zhytomyr, westward of Kyiv, according to the Land Emergency Service of Ukraine.

Three others were injured and more people may be trapped under rubble, the government service said.

The SES also said at least 10 homes and a local infirmary were damaged in the attack.

It also released photos to testify a fire broke out in some of the damaged homes.

The BBC has not independently verified these claims.

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Independent Russian media pressured over Ukraine

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Two leading contained media outlets - Tv Pelting and the Ekho Moskvy (Echo of Moscow) radio channel - were taken off air on Tuesday night.

This follows a complaint from the Russian prosecutor general's function that both outlets have been airing "calls to extremist activities" and "premeditated false information about Russian servicemen".

Both TV Rain and Ekho Moskvy accept denied the allegations.

They remain visible and able to operate on social media and YouTube.

Separately, Russian Wikipedia said that media watchdog Roskomnadzor had issued it with a warning, enervating it remove an article entitled "Russian invasion of Ukraine 2022", or adventure being blocked.

Russian authorities and the state-controlled media exercise not refer to the "invasion" of Ukraine or the "war", instead calling it a "military operation".
Russia envoy says Kyiv has 'no desire' to compromise

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Image caption: Gennady Gatilov, Russian federation'southward ambassador to the Un in Geneva

Moscow has seen "no desire on the part of Ukraine" to reach a legitimate and balanced solution to the bug between the two countries, says a Russian diplomat.

Gennady Gatilov, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, made these comments in an interview with a Lebanese TV station that aired on Tuesday.

Russia "supports affairs based on respect for the positions of all countries and equality, but for now nosotros don't encounter that", he said, according to Russian news agency RIA.

Russia and Ukraine held peace talks on Monday, but no agreements were reached other than a delivery to meet again at an unspecified date.
World Banking concern prepares $3bn in aid for Ukraine

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The Globe Bank Group and International Budgetary Fund are preparing financing support for Ukraine.

In a joint statement, leaders of the 2 agencies said they were worried by the potential spillover effects of the Russian invasion.

They cited rising article prices, disruptions in financial markets and the risk of farther fuelling global inflation.

The World Depository financial institution said information technology would pledge $3bn (£two.3bn) in the coming months, including at least $350m in the next calendar week.

The Imf meanwhile said it will swiftly consider Ukraine's asking for emergency financing. It too hopes to make $2.2bn in funding available upward to June.
Watch: Kharkiv residents mob Russian vehicle

Footage has emerged of a Ukrainian oversupply mobbing a Russian vehicle in the embattled eastern city of Kharkiv.

The verified footage, posted on social media , shows protesters hurling obscenities and attacking the vehicle with their blank fists.

Some protesters wave Ukrainian flags and others throw objects at the vehicle equally it speeds away.
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Video explanation: Ukraine: Polish communities assistance people fleeing state of war

Thousands of people fleeing Ukraine have headed to Poland. And communities across the country, particularly along the border, have rallied to help them.

The BBC went to a schoolhouse that has been transformed into a shelter to speak to volunteers.
Guessing game continues every bit Russian convoy snakes towards Kyiv

Lyse Doucet

Chief International Contributor, Kyiv

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Every bit day vi of Russia's invasion drew to a close in Kyiv, the air-raid siren sounded, v loud thuds of explosions shattered the night, and the mayor issued a warning.

"Dear friends, dear Kyivans", the champion boxer turned politico Vitali Klitschko began.

"I invite all of you to stay away from the streets and exist extremely cautious. It is meliorate to spend this evening in a shelter," he said.

Many are already bedded down in basements, bunkers, and bomb shelters, glued to their phones, after an even starker warning from Russia'due south Defence Ministry building during the day.

The announcement dropped that Russian federation would strike ii key security installations with "high-precision weapons", including the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) and the 72nd Main Centre for Information and Psychological Operations. Information technology called on residents who alive near "relay nodes" to leave their homes in an credible reference to communication towers.

The Television set tower, the tallest building in the country, did take a hit, reportedly from ii missiles. Mayor Klitschko reported that experts were now working to restore the tower'southward full performance.

Those missiles too slammed into the side by side Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial to tens of thousands of Jews murdered by the Nazis in World War 2.

"History repeating…" tweeted Ukraine's President Volodmyr Zelensky as others mocked President Putin's earlier telephone call for a "de-nazification" of Ukraine.

Information technology underscored again the fatal mistakes and misfirings in every war, this one included.

And a serpentine armoured convoy still lies in wait but 25km (15 miles) from Kyiv'due south metropolis centre. Today a senior Usa defence official said it had avant-garde little – whether it was regrouping, running out of fuel and nutrient, or facing restive troops, wasn't clear.

The guessing game is ever-present.

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BBC and ITV finish licensing Television receiver serial to Russia

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Image caption: The Light-green Planet had been sold to "Friday!" a digital channel that'south endemic by Gazprom Tv

The BBC has announced that it will stop licensing content to Russia.

This ways the BBC will not make any new sales of programmes to Russian broadcasters - and had also made a formal request to purchasers to stop dissemination whatsoever more episodes of series it has already licensed.

Series which will be affected include the Russian version of Strictly Come Dancing spin-off, Dancing With The Stars, and Sir David Attenborough's recent The Green Planet documentary.

ITV take done the same, saying: "We have made the decision to stop new sales to Russian clients as we do not believe information technology appropriate to be doing business concern with them at this time."

And the Producers Brotherhood for Picture palace and TV - the UK's trade association for independent producers - has already removed all Russian production and business data from its website and is calling on its members to suspend all co-performance and trade with Russia for the fourth dimension being.

Many sectors have been distancing themselves from Russia in contempo days - with several major Hollywood entertainment companies pausing the release of films in Russian federation.
State of israel'southward Holocaust museum condemns attack on memorial site

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Paradigm caption: Five people died in the assail on the tower on Tuesday

The Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial - the museum dedicated to remembering the Nazi genocide of Jews during World War Two - has condemned the rocket attack on a Goggle box tower in Kyiv which damaged a nearby Holocaust memorial.

The museum voiced its "vehement condemnation" to what information technology called a "mortiferous Russian attack on the vicinity of the Babyn Yar Holocaust memorial site".

A statement from State of israel's foreign minister called for "the sanctity of the site to be preserved and honoured", but did non condemn Russian federation for the attack.

The memorial is congenital on Europe'southward largest mass grave of the Holocaust, where Nazi death squads killed more than 33,000 Jewish people in the infinite of but 2 days in 1941.

Ukraine'southward president described the attack about the site on Tuesday equally "history repeating".
'Olive branch' telephone call betwixt China and Ukraine
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Epitome explanation: Phone telephone call follows China's abstention from a UN vote last calendar week condemning the invasion

China'southward Foreign Minister Wang Yi and and his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmytro Kuleba, accept discussed the conflict engulfing the eastern European nation in a telephone call.

Wang told Kuleba he "deeply regrets" the conflict and is "paying extreme attending to the harm suffered by civilians", co-ordinate to the AFP news agency quoting Chinese country media.

He also called for both sides to "notice a style to resolve the issue through negotiations", the aforementioned source reported.

In the call, which marks the commencement between the 2 men since Russia's invasion on Thursday, Kuleba asked Beijing to use its ties with Moscow to help halt the invasion, the Reuters news agency said.

Wang is said to have offered to make every effort to end the violence diplomatically, the agency wrote.

Terminal week, defying expectation from experts, China abstained from a United nations Security Council vote condemning the invasion of Ukraine.

Some analysts had expected Beijing to join Russia in voting confronting the motion.

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- ANALYSIS: The Ukraine crisis is a major challenge for Red china
Russian anti-war protesters arrested in St Petersburg

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Image caption: Protesters chanted "no to war" in the eye of St Petersburg

More than than 90 protesters were arrested in the western Russian urban center of St Petersburg on Tuesday while protesting against the war in Ukraine, co-ordinate to the BBC Russian Service.

The protest took place at the Gostiny Dvor shopping heart on Nevsky Avenue in the city centre.

Russian law arrested the protesters, and at least one journalist, in the space of 30 minutes, our colleagues report, citing the Zaks.ru publication.

A day earlier, police in the metropolis detained some 900 anti-state of war protesters.

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Countries to release oil from emergency reserves

Member countries of the International Free energy Bureau (IEA), the Paris-based intergovernmental agency that advises on oil policy, accept agreed to release threescore million barrels of oil from their emergency reserves amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The motility comes equally oil prices have risen sharply and fears of energy supply issues have emerged.

The 31 members of the IEA agreed to release reserves in club to "ship a unified and strong message to global oil markets that there volition be no shortfall in supplies" every bit a effect of the Ukraine conflict, the group said.

Members include the US, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland, European union nations, Mexico, Canada, Nihon and others.

"Today's announcement is another example of partners around the world condemning Russia'due south unprovoked and unjustified invasion of Ukraine," the White House said, adding that efforts to go away from Russian energy supplies continued.

Before this week, oil giants Crush and BP said they would off-load stakes in Russian free energy companies and terminate projects.
How to deal with news of the war

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If you woke up this morning, looked at the news, and felt increasingly worried almost the war in Ukraine, you are non alone. After a two-year pandemic, it's a lot to blot, and experts agree that feeling overwhelmed is normal.

While it'south right to think first and foremost near the impact on those caught up in the conflict, information technology's also completely normal to feel upset from afar by what nosotros're seeing in Ukraine, says Alex Bushill, from the mental health charity Listen.

"It's very natural to be distressed by what we're seeing, you wouldn't be homo if you didn't," he says.

This doesn't e'er lead to anxiety, but the NHS and Anxiety United kingdom hold on some key ways to avert it: eat well, get outside, put your phone down, connect with people, rest.

These are all pretty basic pieces of advice, simply when you're stressed, they tin can be hard to practise consistently.

Read more than advice and guidance here.
Apple tree pauses sales in Russian federation

We've news of more action beingness taken by Apple. The tech behemothic has paused sales of its products in Russia, the company has appear.

The visitor has also limited its payments arrangement, Apple Pay, and other services including live-traffic tracking, co-ordinate to the Reuters news agency.

The BBC's Ukrainian service reports that consumers in Russian federation attempting to buy an iPhone, watch or MacBook on the company'due south website are greeted with a message proverb that delivery of the goods is incommunicable.

The move by Apple tree comes later Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov disclosed before this calendar week that he had sent a letter to the company's chairman Tim Cook asking that Apple exist blocked from Russian federation.
Google removes RT from search

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Google has removed the Russian state media outlet RT from its news search tool.

"In this extraordinary crisis we are taking extraordinary measures to end the spread of misinformation and disrupt disinformation campaigns online," Kent Walker, Google'due south president of global affairs said.

The company already had restricted Russian government-funded news sites from advertising and using some features on YouTube, the video-sharing platform owned by Google.

RT'due south deputy editor-in-primary Anna Belkina said the move was evidence that "institution" Western companies are "terrified of a mere presence of any outside voice for the fear of losing their historically captive audition, if that audience encounters a different perspective".

RT and Sputnik, some other authorities-funded site, are considered by the Usa Land department to be ii "critical elements in Russia's disinformation and propaganda ecosystem ".

Tech behemothic Apple has also said that RT and Sputnik would no longer exist bachelor for download on its app store outside Russia.
'Poor morale and boring progress' plague Russian regular army - Pentagon

U.s. defense officials say Russia'southward functioning has moved much more slowly than planned, and now faces supply shortages.

The Pentagon said Russian forces had not yet taken command of Ukraine'due south skies after six days, nor had they taken key targets such as the country'due south second urban center, Kharkiv, or the southern port of Mariupol.

"In many cases, what we're seeing are columns that are literally out of gas," one official is quoted as proverb by the AFP news agency. "Now they're starting to run out of nutrient for their troops."

The official besides said at that place were signs of morale problems in the Russian strength, which makes use of a large number of induct soldiers.

"Not all of them were plainly fully trained and prepared, or even aware that they were going to be sent into a combat performance.

Quote Message: We accept picked up independently on our own indications that morale is flagging in some of these units"

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Russian drivers tin compete, motorsport's governing body says

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Epitome explanation: Russian driver Nikita Mazepin can race this flavour with Haas

Motorsport's governing body the FIA has ruled that Russian drivers tin keep to compete in global events, though not under the Russian flag.

The same volition employ to Belarusian drivers due to Minsk'south back up for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

The decision will let Russian commuter Nikita Mazepin to race in F1 this flavor with the Haas team.

Competitors from the two countries will fly a neutral banner and must make "specific commitment and adherence to the FIA'south principles of peace and political neutrality, until farther notice", the body said.

The decision follows that of the International Olympic Committee and Fifa deciding to enact an outright ban on Russian competitors.

The FIA as well announced it would abolish the upcoming Intercontinental Globe-trotting Cup event that was to be held in Sochi, Russia, this summer.

What other activeness has sport taken in response to Russia'south invasion?
The center taking in sick children and refugees

Myroslava Petsa

BBC News Ukrainian

Their city has been shelled with Grad rockets, hit by cruise missiles and air bombardment.

But life goes on for the children of the Kharkiv Hippocrates centre where they care for patients with the nigh serious nervous system conditions.

The centre is a hospice and a rehabilitation facility. Its head, Dr Roman Marabyan, had been called up to the ground forces, so I spoke to his deputy, Valentyna Drokina.

She seems overoptimistic for a doctor stuck with her patients in a city that'southward been seeing no reprieve from Russia.

In more peaceful times, the centre used to care for dozens of young patients from the Kharkiv region and north-eastern Ukraine.

Some children were orphans - their parents abandoned them in land facilities after learning their diagnoses. The centre's nurses and doctors accept become not just children's carers, but parental figures. Other children ordinarily had mothers by their side.

The war has brought all of them together.

"We are ane family unit at present," says Valentyna Drokina. Her centre welcomes all abased children with life-threatening atmospheric condition and those with their parents who didn't take enough time to abscond Kharkiv.

Out of 21 children that are being treated in this facility, only three tin walk on their feet. Valentyna tells me the centre's professionals had equipped its basement and then that the children could spend the well-nigh unsafe hours down there.

"When it's needed, every developed comes upward to the kids, each takes one child and runs with them to the cellar," she says.

Quote Message: "Children take no thought of what'southward going on. They recollect we are playing with them"

The centre is home non simply to its immature patients and their parents, only as well to the staff who work there. Valentyna says they even found room for iii ordinary families who couldn't find a safe place to stay.

"Nosotros are OK as long equally there are no power outages." She says the area hasn't been shelled with Grad rockets, so they're staying stiff.

But then her phonation breaks. She'due south starts crying and adds:

Quote Message: My optimism is gone"