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Residential buildings were in flames in the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolayiv on March 7. The city is on a strategic route between Kherson, which is occupied by Russian forces, and the port city of Odesa. Residents of Odesa and Zaporizhzhya are preparing to defend their cities.
Thousands of people have been detained at protests in dozens of cities across Russia against President Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked war in Ukraine, the Russian Interior Ministry and an independent protest monitor said on March 6.
Despite heavy shelling of the predominantly Russian-speaking city of Kharkiv, it is still under Ukrainian control. Though many people have fled the city, those who have stayed describe increasingly grim conditions that are difficult to escape.
Across Ukraine, schools have been destroyed in Russian shelling and air strikes. In one, an injured child made a video on her Instagram feed saying: "I hope things are better where you are.... Send this video to all your Russian friends."
Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a new law into effect that calls for sentences of up to 15 years in prison for people who distribute "false news" about the Russian military.
Thousands of people from across Ukraine continued to flood into the main railway station in the western city of Lviv on March 4 with the hope of traveling to neighboring Poland. Current Time spoke to some of those who had fled from the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
Patients and medical staff at Ukraine's largest children's hospital have been forced to shelter in the building's basement as Russian forces continue to shell and advance on Kyiv.
Staff at Ukrainian nuclear sites, Zaporizhzhya and Chernobyl, are being held by Russian forces and working under the barrel of a gun, according to the former head of Ukraine's nuclear inspectorate. Speaking to Current Time on March 4, Hrihory Plachkov said it was an extremely dangerous situation.
Many Russians are being fed a daily media diet of Kremlin propaganda that hides the terrible destruction and human cost of their country's invasion of Ukraine. So how did ordinary Russians in Perm and Vladivostok react when Current Time reporters showed them some images?
Russian media regulator Roskomnadzor has blocked Facebook, the world’s largest social-media platform by number of users, in the latest broadside against freedom of information in the country as the Kremlin seeks to control the narrative about its war in Ukraine.
Russia is coming to talks with questions it has formulated answers to long ago, said Volodymyr Zelenskiy, who believes this hinders talks. The Ukrainian president was speaking to a group of local and international journalists in Kyiv on March 3.
A committee in Russia's State Duma has approved a draft law criminalizing the distribution of "false news" about military operations amid a crackdown on independent media outlets covering Moscow's ongoing, unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
At the start of Vladimir Putin's presidency, he allowed director Vitaly Mansky close personal access for a documentary project. In March 2001, Putin spoke in detail with Mansky about the importance of giving up power as an elected official in a democratic state.
Parishioners at a church on the outskirts of Kyiv prepare food to support volunteers defending the Ukrainian capital. Viktor, a priest with the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, organizes the work with local women. They prepare traditional meals while singing patriotic Ukrainian songs.
The mayor of the Ukrainian town of Konotop told a gathering of residents that he'd been given an ultimatum by Russian forces to surrender or face being wiped out by artillery -- before declaring: "If you are for it, we’ll fight. Who wants to fight?"
"I am proud that I am a Ukrainian, I am proud that I belong to a nation that has determination, character, and love for the motherland," said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko.
The chief editor of the television channel Dozhd TV says he has left Russia after the independent online channel's website was blocked by government authorities.
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko says Russian troops have surrounded the Ukrainian capital and plan to strangle it through a blockade as Moscow's attack on Ukrainian towns and cities continues.
Sberbank, Russia's largest lender, says it is leaving the European banking market in the face of Western sanctions against Moscow over its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
There were emotional farewells at Kyiv's main train station as more people fled the Ukrainian capital. The tearful partings came as Russia warned residents on March 1 that it would begin to hit targets in Kyiv and as a massive column of Russian armored vehicles moved closer to the city.
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