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Members of the territorial defense gear up to proceed patrol in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March vii, 2022. AP Photograph/Vadim Ghirda

By The Associated Press, Associated Press

The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war:

TOKYO — Japanese automaker Nissan is planning to halt production at its institute in Russia because of "logistical challenges."

Nissan Motor Co. did not provide a specific engagement but said Tuesday product volition stop "soon." Its establish in St. Petersburg produced 45,000 vehicles last twelvemonth, including the X-Trail sport utility vehicle.

The Yokohama-based manufacturer said the safety of its employees is its summit priority.

Nissan earlier stopped exports to Russian federation.

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LVIV, Ukraine — Russian aircraft bombed cities in eastern and central Ukraine overnight, Ukrainian officials said. Shelling pounded suburbs of the majuscule, Kyiv.

In Sumy and Okhtyrka, to the east of Kyiv nigh the Russian edge, bombs fell on residential buildings and destroyed a power found, regional leader Dmytro Zhivitsky said. He said in that location were dead and wounded only gave no figures.

Bombs too hit oil depots in Zhytomyr and the neighboring town of Cherniakhiv, located west of Kyiv.

In Bucha, a Kyiv suburb, the mayor reported heavy artillery fire.

"We tin't even gather up the bodies because the shelling from heavy weapons doesn't stop day or night," Mayor Anatol Fedoruk said. "Dogs are pulling apart the bodies on the city streets. It'south a nightmare."

The Ukrainian government is enervating the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow people to safely leave Sumy, Zhytomyr, Kharkiv, Mariupol and suburbs of Kyiv, including Bucha.

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LVIV, Ukraine — The mayor of Lviv said the metropolis in far western Ukraine is struggling to feed and firm the tens of thousands of people who accept fled hither from war-torn regions of the state.

"We actually need back up," Mayor Andriy Sadovyi said.

More than 200,000 Ukrainians displaced from their homes are at present in Lviv, filling up sport halls, schools, hospitals and church building buildings. The historical city once pop with tourists had a population of 700,000 before the war.

The mayor said the city needs big tents equipped with kitchens and so food can be prepared.

Hundreds of thousands more people could get in if humanitarian corridors are opened upwardly from cities now under siege from Russian troops.

The embassies of the U.S. and European union countries too moved to Lviv from Kyiv before the invasion.

Lviv is the main transit point for those fleeing only beyond the border to Poland. Many of the one.7 million Ukrainians now abroad passed through the metropolis. The United Nations has called the situation the fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since Globe War Two.

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LVIV, Russia — A Russian general was killed in the fighting effectually Kharkiv, Ukraine's 2d-largest city, which Russian forces have been trying to seize since the invasion began, the Ukrainian military intelligence agency said.

It identified him as Maj. Gen. Vitaly Gerasimov, 45, and said he had fought with Russian forces in Syrian arab republic and Chechnya and had taken part in the seizure of Crimea in 2014.

It was not possible to confirm the decease independently. Russian federation has not commented.

Another Russian general was killed earlier in the fighting. A local officers' organization in Russia confirmed the death in Ukraine of Maj. Gen. Andrei Sukhovetsky, the commanding full general of the Russian 7th Airborne Sectionalization.

Sukhovetsky also took role in Russia'south armed services campaign in Syria.

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CANBERRA, Australia — The Australian government says it is placing sanctions on Moscow's "propagandists and purveyors of disinformation" who legitimatize Russian federation'south invasion as the "de-Nazification" of Ukraine.

Strange Minister Marise Payne said in a statement on Tuesday her government was sanctioning 10 "people of strategic interest to Russia" for their role in encouraging hostility toward Ukraine.

"This includes driving and disseminating false narratives about the 'de-Nazification' of Ukraine, making erroneous allegations of genocide against indigenous Russians in eastern Ukraine, and promoting the recognition of the and so-called Donetsk People'south Republic and Luhansk People's Democracy every bit contained," Payne said, referring to separatist regions of Ukraine.

Russia'due south invasion of Ukraine had been accompanied by a widespread disinformation campaign, both within Russia and internationally, she said.

"Tragically for Russia, President (Vladimir) Putin has shut down independent voices and locked everyday Russians into a world characterized past lies and disinformation," Payne said.

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UNITED NATIONS — Ukraine'due south U.N. ambassador says 12 days of an all-out invasion past Russia has brought Ukraine to "the brink of humanitarian catastrophe of potentially global nature."

Sergiy Kyslytsya, speaking Monday at a U.N. Security Council meeting on the crisis, accused Russia of blocking numerous attempts by Ukrainian authorities to evacuate civilians through humanitarian corridors.

He said Russians shelled depots with evacuation buses near Mariupol and blew up the railway near Irpin in the Kyiv region to preclude evacuation past train. He said Russia bombed and launched missiles at those cities and others like Kharkiv on Monday.

Kyslytsya said Russian federation must stop violating cease-fire arrangements and allow safe passage through humanitarian corridors, end disinformation, and implement the U.N. General Associates's resolution calling for an firsthand stop to fighting.

Ukraine as a major wheat producer has been "one of the guarantors of global food security" but this has been challenged by the war and "the implications at the global level will be catastrophic," he said.

Kyslytsya said Russian shelling had destroyed schools and hospitals and killed and wounded doctors. He said and the country was running low on critical medical supplies. He urged U.N. humanitarian agencies to answer speedily.

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LVIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian Foreign Government minister Dmytro Kuleba says when he meets with Russian Strange Minister Sergey Lavrov in Turkey on Thursday he will propose direct talks between the Ukrainian and Russian presidents.

"Nosotros want talks between the president of Ukraine and Vladimir Putin since he is the one who makes the final decisions," Kuleba said early Tuesday on Ukrainian television.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy often proposed direct talks with Putin in the runup to the war and said he called the Kremlin on the eve of the Russian invasion but got no reply. Putin has agreed to speak only with Western leaders.

Kuleba spoke after a chat late Mon with U.South. Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

"Grateful to the U.South. for standing by Ukraine," Kuleba said on Twitter. "We are coordinating intensively on crucial further steps to increase pressure on Russia."

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Isle U.South. Rep. David Cicilline said Monday information technology was "haunting" to see Ukrainians fleeing from their land in fear when he visited the border of Ukraine and Poland.

Cicilline told The Associated Press Monday nighttime, nearly an 60 minutes afterward returning to the U.S., that he saw "young children crying and mothers only literally running from their country because they were attacked," and lines of people waiting for help in the freezing cold with no heavy coats.

"Information technology's but horrible, the suffering that is existence caused because of this brutality by (Russian President) Vladimir Putin," he said. "Information technology's hard to describe. It's difficult to go it out of your head. Information technology's some of the worst stuff I've seen."

Cicilline was part of a bipartisan delegation to the border led past U.S. Rep. Gregory Meeks, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Rep. Michael McCaul, the ranking Republican on the committee. They got at that place Saturday morn.

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Un — Russian federation's U.Northward. Administrator Vassily Nebenzia says Russia volition carry out a cease-fire on Tuesday morn at 10 a.m. Moscow time and open humanitarian corridors to evacuate citizens from Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy and Mariupol.

He took the floor at the end of a U.Due north. Security Council meeting on the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine on Mon to make the declaration.

"This proposal doesn't have whatsoever demands about the citizens beingness sent necessarily to Russian federation, into Russian territory," he said.

"There'due south also evacuation offered towards Ukrainian cities to the w of Kyiv, and ultimately it volition exist the choice of the people themselves where they want to be evacuated to," Nebenzia said.

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LVIV, Ukraine — President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said instead of an agreement on humanitarian corridors, what Ukraine got on Monday was "Russian tanks, Russian Grad rockets, Russian mines."

"They even mined the roads that were the agreed routes for taking food and medicine to the people, to the children, of Mariupol," Zelenskyy said in what has get a daily video address close to midnight. On Monday nighttime he spoke from behind the ornate desk-bound in his official office, visual proof that he remains in Kyiv.

During talks on Monday, the Russians proposed evacuation routes leading to Russia and its ally Republic of belarus, rather than to areas of western Ukraine that remain peaceful.

"Information technology's simply cynicism," Zelenskyy said. By opening a modest corridor to Russia, he said, Moscow is looking but for a propaganda victory.

He said that on the 12th day of the war, the Ukrainian army is counter attacking and inflicting extremely painful losses on the enemy. "Battles are underway in the center, in the due north and in the south of country – Mariupol and Kharkiv, Chernihiv and Sumy, Odesa and Kyiv, Mykolaiv and Zhytomyr."

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UNITED NATIONS — The U.S. administrator to the United nations is calling on Russian federation to accolade Ukraine'due south proposals "for fourth dimension-spring humanitarian safe passage in specific, agreed upon locations" and unequivocally commit to immediate humanitarian access in the country.

At a U.N. Security Council meeting on the escalating humanitarian crisis in the land, Linda Thomas-Greenfield as well called for the establishment of a system on the basis to facilitate the condom movement of aid convoys and flights so food, medicine and other supplies can get into Ukraine to accomplish those about in need.

The U.S. envoy urged countries that have pledged over $1.five billion in humanitarian support for Ukraine to quickly turn the pledges into funds, saying "as long as Russia pursues its relentless and roughshod entrada, the need for assistance will just increment."

Thomas-Greenfield said Russian President Vladimir Putin "has a programme to brutalize Ukraine" and the terminal 2 weeks accept shown that "the Ukrainian people are non going to surrender."

Thomas-Greenfield said the United States will proceed to stand up with the Ukrainian people, "but president Putin is clearly willing to sacrifice the lives of thousands of Russian soldiers to achieve his personal ambition."

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WASHINGTON — Top officials in the U.S. Congress reached understanding Monday on legislation that would ban Russian oil imports to the U.S. and end Russia'south permanent normal trade relations condition in response to the intensifying state of war in Ukraine.

That's co-ordinate to a Senate aide granted anonymity to discuss the individual deliberations in Congress.

Voting could come swiftly only no schedule has been set.

The White House has been reluctant to ban Russian oil imports as gas prices at the pump fasten for Americans, but has not ruled out the selection.

Catastrophe the normal trade relations status could result in steep tariffs on other Russian imports.

— AP congressional correspondent Lisa Mascaro contributed to this study.

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UNITED NATIONS — Calling what's happening to the vii.5 million children of Ukraine "a moral outrage," the caput of the U.Northward. children'south agency urged the U.N. Security Council to remind all parties of their legal obligation to protect youngsters and spare them from attack.

UNICEF Executive Manager Catherine Russell told a council meeting Monday that at least 27 children take been killed and 42 injured since Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, according to the U.North. human rights role, and "countless more than have been severely traumatized."

With the escalation of the conflict, she said, homes, schools, orphanages and hospitals take come under assail besides as h2o and sanitation facilities, which provide key civilian needs. She also expressed deep concern at the safety and well-beingness of nearly 100,000 children, one-half of them with disabilities, who live in Ukrainian institutions and boarding schools.

She called on the parties to refrain from fighting near these facilities and to avoid the utilise of explosive weapons in populated areas.

Russell said children must exist protected from the brutality of war, saying the image of a mother, her two children and a friend trying to flee to safe lying expressionless on a street afterwards being hitting by a mortar "must daze the censor of the world."

For children fleeing Ukraine, she said, UNICEF has started operating "Blue Dot" safe places at border crossings where youngsters are get-go registered and which provide "a one-end condom space for children and their families."

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United nations — The United nations is unable to meet the needs of millions of civilians caught in conflict in Ukraine today and is urging safe passage for people to go "in the management they cull" and for humanitarian supplies to get to areas of hostilities, according to the U.Due north. humanitarian main.

Undersecretary-General Martin Griffiths told a U.Due north. Security Council meeting Monday that his office has sent a squad to Moscow to coordinate with the Russian military to endeavour to scale-upwardly the delivery of humanitarian aid to the level needed. He said this followed a telephone call Friday between U.Northward. Secretary-Full general Antonio Guterres and Russia'south Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.

The beginning U.N.-Russia meeting has been held, he said, welcoming cooperation past both sides and expressing hope of "farther progress in the hours alee."

Griffiths said the U.Northward. and its partners have already provided food to hundreds of thousands of people and the World Food Program "is setting upwardly supply chain operations to deliver immediate nutrient and cash assistance to 3-v one thousand thousand people within Ukraine," and the Ukrainian Blood-red Cross has distributed hygiene and food kits, warm clothing and medicine to thousands of people.

The U.N. humanitarian chief too expressed deep worry at the consequences of "this unnecessary conflict" on "vulnerable people living half a world away" affected by spiking food prices and uncertain supplies and tape-level prices. "People in the Sahel, Yemen, the Horn of Africa, Afghanistan, Republic of madagascar, and beyond already face profound nutrient inseucirty," Griffiths said, and high gas prices means "life becomes harder however in places like Lebanon."

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BERLIN — The U.Northward. nuclear watchdog says Ukraine has informed it that a new research facility producing radioisotopes for medical and industrial uses has been damaged past shelling in Kharkiv.

The International Atomic Energy Agency said the Ukrainian regulator told it that Dominicus'south incident didn't cause any increase in radiation levels at the site. It said the nuclear material at the facility is "always subcritical" and in that location is a very low stock of information technology, so the IAEA's cess is that the reported impairment would accept no "radiological consequence."

Nevertheless, information technology adds to a string of concerns the Vienna-based IAEA has over nuclear facilities and material in Ukraine.

It reported "another worrying development" Monday at the Zaporizhzhia ability plant, Ukraine's biggest, which was seized final week by Russian forces. The IAEA said the Ukrainian regulator has informed it that it's not currently possible to deliver spare parts or medicine to the plant.

The IAEA reiterated that "having operating staff subject to the authority of the Russian military machine commander contravenes an indispensable pillar of nuclear safety."

The Ukrainian regulator said eight of the country's 15 reactors were operating, including two at Zaporizhzhia.

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NEW YORK — Stoli Group is renaming its Stolichnaya vodka brand as office of a broader effort to distance itself from Russia. In a news release, Luxembourg-based Stoli Group said the vodka will now be sold and marketed as Stoli. Russian billionaire Yuri Shefler, a critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, founded Stoli Group in 1997 but was exiled from Russian federation 4 years afterwards and moved product to Latvia. "More than than annihilation, I wish for Stoli to represent peace in Europe and solidarity with Ukraine," Shefler said in a statement. Stoli Group said a land-endemic company in Russia continues to brand a vodka called Stolichnaya which is sold in a express number of markets. Just Stoli Group owns the trademark rights to the Stolichnaya name in 150 countries, including the U.S. Stolichnaya means "from the capital urban center" in Russian.

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PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron said on Monday that he does not expect a negotiated end to the war in Ukraine for weeks.

He said that he has told the Russian leader that a cease-fire must come before any real dialogue, but that President Vladimir Putin has refused, making their regular talks "difficult."

"I don't retrieve that in the days and weeks to come up there will be a truthful negotiated solution," Macron said at a forum in Poissy, a southwest suburb of Paris, while candidature for the first time to renew his mandate in April presidential elections.

He said that Putin is making a "historic mistake" with his war pitted confronting Ukrainians, "brothers." Macron stressed the need to respect the people of all countries … "and ensure that no nation, no people be humiliated."

Macron said that Russia, too, must be respected as a country and people because "There is no durable peace if Russia is not (function of) a … grand architecture of peace on our continent. Considering History and geography are stubborn."

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ROME — Italian republic is looking to house those fleeing war in Ukraine in residences confiscated from organized crime syndicates.

Interior Minister Luciana Lamorgese on Mon said that the national agency which keeps track of hundreds of seized and confiscated properties over the years are speedily checking to determine those suitable for refugees.

Some 14,000 refugees take arrived in Italy from Ukraine. Many of them have relatives or friends living in Italy, and it isn't immediately clear how many accept no one to host them.

Ministry building officials will be pinpointing existent manor that has been confiscated, but not yet assigned for use by municipalities or charities. After judicial government determine that property was bought with illicit revenues from organized law-breaking like drug trafficking or extortion, it is seized and eventually made bachelor for employ by charities or other not-profit groups.

Lamorgese said using the backdrop to house refugees, fifty-fifty on a temporary basis, can give "concrete responses to those fleeing from war and higher up all to the nearly frail persons, such as women and children."

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TIRANA, Albania — Albania on Monday strongly denounced the shelling of its consulate in the Ukrainian urban center of Kharkiv and called on Russia to terminate assailment against Ukraine.

The Albanian Foreign Ministry building tweeted photos of the building in Kharkiv where its consulate is seen destroyed after being shelled.

"Albania strongly condemns the #Russian aggression which led to the destruction of the Honorary Consulate of Albania in Kharkiv," it tweeted, calculation that, "Perpetrators must exist held accountable! #StopRussianAggression #StandWithUkraine️."

Albania has joined the European union in the hard-hitting sanctions against Russian height officials and institutions.

Last week Albania and the United States initiated a resolution at the Un Security Council denouncing the Russian invasion.

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LVIV, Ukraine — Both Russian federation and Ukraine say they've made a little progress during a third circular of talks and Russian federation's peak negotiator says the corridors are expected to start functioning Tuesday.

Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said without elaboration Monday that "there were some small positive shifts regarding logistics of humanitarian corridors" to permit civilians to flee some besieged Ukrainian cities. He said that consultations will continue on ways to negotiate an end to hostilities.

Russia'southward superlative negotiator Vladimir Medinsky, said he expects that humanitarian corridors in Ukraine will finally start functioning Tuesday. He said no progress has been made on a political settlement, simply voiced hope that the next round could exist more than productive.

"Our expectations from the talks have failed, simply we promise that we would exist able to make a more pregnant stride forward side by side time," Medinsky said. "The talks will keep."

Efforts to fix condom passage for civilians over the weekend vicious apart amongst connected shelling. Merely the Russian Defense Ministry appear a new button Monday, saying civilians would be allowed to leave the capital of Kyiv, Mariupol and the cities of Kharkiv and Sumy.

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MADRID — U.S. Deputy Secretarial assistant of State Wendy Sherman says that getting military materiel for Ukrainians to fight a Russian invasion is ready to go more than difficult for the U.S. and its allies.

"I call back that the international community has been tremendously responsive and have constitute means to become the materiel in. That may go harder in the coming days, and we'll have to find other ways to manage this," Sherman said Monday during a visit to the Castilian majuscule for meetings with officials.

The Biden assistants is because how to fulfill Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's asking for warplanes, the official said, because that Ukrainians would just exist able to operate soviet-era warplanes provided by Poland.

"People are trying to see whether this is possible and doable," she said, adding that the warplanes should not be regarded by Moscow as directly interest in the conflict: "We would look that this delivery would be seen equally all the deliveries have been seen as a right for Ukraine to defend itself."

Sherman met in Madrid with Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares and other officials. She arrived from Turkey and was on her way to Morocco, Algeria and Egypt for a week of intense diplomatic contacts amid the war in Ukraine.

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PARIS — French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian criticized Russia's offer of humanitarian corridors for Ukrainian civilians every bit a "trap" that could maybe lead to more bombing in Ukraine.

Le Drian referred to Russia's tactic of bombing and then offering humanitarian corridors in the by, citing Aleppo in Syria and Grozny, in Chechnya. He said in such cases Russia's proposal of establishing humanitarian corridors actually led to more than bombings afterwards negotiations failed.

"Nosotros must not fall into traps," Le Drian said Monday in French republic's southern urban center of Montpellier after a meeting of European ministers.

"I'm even wondering if in Russian military schools at that place are classes to explain: 'bombing, corridor, negotiations, breach (of negotiations), we starting time it all again'. It'south quite tragic just unfortunately it sends shivers down your spine," he said.

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TIRANA, Albania — Albania'southward upper-case letter Tirana on Monday named a street "Gratuitous Ukraine" to express solidarity with Ukraine'southward resistance to the Russian invasion.

Tirana's metropolis hall council, or parliament, voted unanimously to rename a downtown street in the capital where the Ukrainian, Russian, Serbian and Kosovar embassies are located.

"The 2 conflicts: Serbia against Kosovo and Russian Against Ukraine are ii marking points for the generations and memories of a modernistic Europe," said Mayor Erion Veliaj.

Albania has joined the European Spousal relationship in the hard-hit sanctions against Russian peak officials and institutions. Concluding week, Republic of albania joined the United States in initiating a resolution at the United nations Security Council denouncing the Russian invasion.

"We accept e'er aligned on the off-white and glorious side of the world's history, like nosotros did once with the Hebrews, yesterday with the Afghans and today with the Ukrainians," said Veliaj, calculation that one,500 families have offered shelter for the Ukrainian refugees if they come to the country.

Albania was the only country during Globe War 2 to have more Jews in the end compared to the commencement offer them shelter from Nazi persecution. Final year, Albania was the commencement country to offer shelter to the Afghans fleeing their land after the Taliban regime came to power.

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NEW YORK — All 4 of the so-chosen Large Four bookkeeping firms are at present cut ties with Russian federation over its war in Ukraine.

Deloitte on Mon was the last of the four to say it will no longer operate in Russia, joining Ernst & Young, Pricewaterhousecoopers and KPMG in making like announcements.

Deloitte said information technology is too cutting its ties to Russian federation-allied Belarus. The visitor said it is separating its global network of member firms from the firms based in Russian federation and Republic of belarus.

Deloitte Global CEO Punit Renjen said in a statement "we know this is the right determination" but it will have an impact on Deloitte's 3,000 employees in Russia and Belarus who "have no voice in the actions of their government."

Pricewaterhousecoopers and KPMG appear they were pulling out of Russia on Sunday, and Ernst & Young earlier on Monday.

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LONDON — British Prime Government minister Boris Johnson has defended his government'south treatment of Ukrainians fleeing state of war, after French republic accused U.K. authorities of "inhumane" behavior towards the refugees.

Johnson said Britain was being "very, very generous," but would not have "a system where people can come into the U.K. without any checks or whatsoever controls at all."

United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland says it expects to take in as many every bit 200,000 displaced Ukrainians. Very few have managed to reach Britain so far. The Dwelling Office said "around fifty" visas had been granted by Sunday.

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said Sunday that hundreds of Ukrainian refugees in the English Channel port of Calais had been turned abroad and told by British authorities that they must obtain visas at U.1000. embassies in Paris or Brussels.

Calling that "a bit inhumane," Darmanin urged United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland to "finish the technocratic nit-picking."

U.1000. Dwelling house Secretary Priti Patel denied Britain was turning anyone away. The British government confirmed Mon that it did non have a visa heart in Calais.

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BUDAPEST – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban signed a prescript on Monday assuasive for NATO troops to station on Hungarian territory in response to the Russian invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

The authorities decree reaffirmed Orban's earlier insistence that Hungary would not allow troops or lethal weapons to be delivered across its borders into Ukraine, only allowed for the transit of NATO forces across its territory into other NATO member countries.

Not-lethal aid, such as personal protective equipment, beginning aid and medical supplies and humanitarian materials, are permitted to cross into Ukraine from Republic of hungary, according to the decree.

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ROME — Italian Premier Mario Draghi said Russia appears adamant to bear on with its war in Ukraine until it can install a authorities "friendly" to Moscow.

Draghi was asked by reporters in Brussels on Mon if he thought there was still room for diplomacy. "Look, up till now, (affairs) hasn't yielded any fruits. Up till now, the determination of Russia is very clear,'' Draghi replied.

Russia volition proceed until "the country has surrendered, (and information technology) probably installs a friendly government and defeats the resistance,'' the Italian leader said. "That's what the facts demonstrate."

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BRUSSELS — European Commission spokesman for foreign affairs Peter Stano said the EU would like to see China play a mediation role and convince Russia to finish its war in Ukraine.

"China has the potential to achieve out to Moscow because of their human relationship manifestly and nosotros would similar China to apply its influence to press for a cease-fire and to brand Russia to stop the brutal unprecedented shelling and killing of civilians in Ukraine."

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