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Ukraine Russia War: Ukraine Says 2,000 Civilians Dead, Fierce Fighting In Cities: 10 Updates

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Ukraine on Wednesday sharply raised the number of civilians killed in the Russian invasion to over 2,000 as the country contested Russian claims of capturing the port of Kherson and reported an escalation in attacks on many cities.

Here are the 10 latest developments in this story:

Russia said on Wednesday it had captured Kherson, a southern provincial capital of around 250,000 people strategically placed where the Dnieper River flows into the Black Sea.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s advisor Oleksiy Arestovych denied Kherson was fully under Russian control, saying: “The city has not fallen, our side continues to defend.”
In Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv – which Indians have been asked to evacuate at all costs by 6 pm local time – an airstrike on Wednesday morning brought down the roof of a police building. Russian paratroopers landed in the city, triggering clashes in the streets, Ukrainian forces said. Authorities said 21 people were killed by shelling and airstrikes in the city in the past 24 hours, and four more on Wednesday morning.
Also in the south, Russia was bombarding the port of Mariupol, which it says it has surrounded in a ring around the entire Sea of Azov. The besieged city’s mayor said Mariupol had suffered mass casualties after a night of intense strikes. He gave no full casualty figure but said it was impossible to evacuate the wounded.
On the other two main fronts in the east and north, Russia so far has little to show for its advance, with Ukraine’s two biggest cities, Kyiv and Kharkiv, holding out in the face of increasingly intense bombardment.
In Kyiv, the capital of 3 million people where residents have been sheltering at night in the underground metro, Russia blasted the main television tower near a Holocaust memorial on Tuesday, killing bystanders.
President Zelenskiy, in his latest update to his nation, said that attack proved the Russians “don’t know a thing about Kyiv, about our history. But they all have orders to erase our history, erase our country, erase us all.”
Russia said it had sent delegates for a second round of peace talks in Belarus. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Russia must stop bombing if it wanted to negotiate.
Apple, Exxon, Boeing and other firms joined an exodus of international companies from Russian markets that has left Moscow financially and diplomatically isolated since President Vladimir Putin ordered the February 24 invasion.
More than 2,000 civilians have been killed in the Russian attack which has destroyed hospitals, kindergartens and homes, according to the Ukrainian emergency service. Over 900,000 Ukrainians have fled the country since the assault began, Europe’s fastest displacement of people for decades.

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Apple, Nike and Google join brands limiting services

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Apple has become the latest major firm to halt all product sales in Russia, in a widening corporate backlash to the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

The tech giant was said it was “deeply concerned” about the Russian invasion and stands with those “suffering as a result of the violence”.

Apple Pay and other services such as Apple Maps have also been limited.

Nike did not comment on the conflict but customers are no longer able to order its products online.

An automated message said Nike was halting online orders because it could not guarantee delivery of goods to customers in Russia.

However, the website directed customers to their nearest Nike stores.

One Ukrainian member of parliament, Lesia Vsylenko, tweeted that the sportswear giant’s move was a great example of how private companies could impose sanctions against Russia.

A series of high profile brands have pulled back from Russia in recent days, including film studios, carmakers and technology firms.

Google has removed Russian state-funded publishers such as RT from its features.

Mobile banking apps in Russian, such as Russia’s VTB Bank’s app, may soon not function fully on devices using Apple’s iOS operating system, according to news agency RIA.

Apple said in a statement that the firm had disabled both traffic and live incidents in Apple Maps in Ukraine as a “safety and precautionary measure for Ukrainian citizens”.

Last week, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov published an open letter to Apple on Twitter, in which he asked Apple to cut Russia off from its products, services, and App Store.

I’ve contacted @tim_cook, Apple's CEO, to block the Apple Store for citizens of the Russian Federation, and to support the package of US government sanctions! If you agree to have the president-killer, then you will have to be satisfied with the only available site Russia 24. pic.twitter.com/b5dm78g2vS

— Mykhailo Fedorov (@FedorovMykhailo) February 25, 2022

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Apple’s iPhones are the third best-selling smartphone in Russia, representing about 15% of sales, according to market intelligence provider IDC, but represent only a tiny fraction of Apple’s worldwide revenue.

Earlier, Google restricted news firms funded by the Russian government from advertising tools and some features on YouTube.

“We are committed to complying with all sanctions requirements and we continue to monitor the latest guidance,” the company wrote in a blog post.

The company also told the BBC that Google Pay had been limited in the country – for those using sanctioned banks. Google has not, however, blocked Google Pay in Russia.

Google also said “most of our services (like Search, Maps and YouTube) currently remain available in Russia, continuing to provide access to global information and perspectives.”

Apple is generally fairly good at keeping its head down when it comes to global affairs.

For example, it has faced criticism for not standing up to China over its treatment of Uyghurs.

This move then is significant, and unusual, by the iPhone maker.

One by one global brands have been moving to distance themselves from Russia – making the country look more and more isolated.

But it was by no means certain that Apple would make this move. The company had started to receive criticism for its relative silence on Ukraine.

The BBC had reached out to Apple for comment, but had not received a reply until this announcement.

There are many phone companies in Russia, and plenty of alternatives to Apple products.

People with iPhones will also still be able to use the App Store – the pause in sales will not have a huge immediate impact.

But as brands desert Russia, its citizens will begin to notice that products they used to buy, simply aren’t available anymore.

Firms cutting off Russia

Meanwhile, the Finnish network equipment maker Nokia said it would stop deliveries to Russia to comply with sanctions imposed on the country following the invasion of Ukraine.

On Monday, Netflix also said it had “no plans” to add state-run channels to its Russian service. Russian regulations had required it to carry 20 free-to-air news, sports and entertainment channels in the country.

The biggest shipping firms in the world, Danish Maersk and Geneva-based MSC, also suspended container shipping to and from the country on Tuesday. The UK has also banned ships from Russia in its updated sanctions.

Russia supplies a sixth of the world’s commodities so will now be cut off from a significant part of shipping trade.

Motorbike firm Harley-Davidson also suspended business and shipments of its bikes to Russia.

And US plane manufacturer Boeing Co said on Tuesday it was suspending parts, maintenance and technical support for Russian airlines – as well as major operations in Moscow after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Russian forces claim control of key port city and begin to surround others

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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine took a heavy toll on civilians on Wednesday as residential neighbourhoods were bombed and key cities surrounded.

The Russian military claimed it was in control of Kherson, a strategically important port city near Crimea.

Russian forces also appeared to be surrounding key cities including Kharkiv and the port city of Mariupol.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky called his people a “symbol of invincibility”.

Mariupol, in the south east, was under constant shelling on Wednesday, its deputy mayor Sergiy Orlov told the BBC.

“The situation in Mariupol is awful, we are near to a humanitarian catastrophe. We have been under more than 15 hours of continuous shelling without any pause,” he said.

“The Russian army is working through all their weapons here – artillery, multiple rocket launch systems, airplanes, tactical rockets. They are trying to destroy the city.”

Mr Orlov said Russian forces were several kilometres from the city on all sides, and strikes on key infrastructure had cut water and power supplies to parts of the city. One densely populated residential district on the city’s left bank had been “nearly totally destroyed”.

“We cannot count the number of victims there, but we believe at least hundreds of people are dead. We cannot go in to retrieve the bodies,” he said. “My father lives there, I cannot reach him, I don’t know if he is alive or dead.”

Ukraine’s emergency services said more than 2,000 civilians had been killed so far during the Russian invasion, though the BBC was not able to independently verify the figure. The UN said on Tuesday that at least 136 civilians have been killed, thought it estimates that the actual toll is higher.

Mr Zelensky said on Wednesday that Russia was attempting to “erase” his country.

Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that its forces were in total control of Kherson, a city of nearly 250,000 people just north of Crimea, the peninsula annexed by Russia in 2014. Local authorities said Kherson was still under Ukrainian control.

Larysa Pavlovska, a 58-year-old paramedic in Kherson, said her part of the city was quiet on Wednesday but other parts were smouldering after intense overnight shelling and some residential districts had been “bombed out”.

“Local residents say Russian armoured vehicles can be seen moving in the city, people say about 50 units,” she said. “They have been spotted by the state regional administration building.”

Video footage verified by the BBC appeared to show Russian troops in the centre of Kherson.

Inesa Chamlai, the deputy head of the emergency aid centre in Kherson, said Russian troops had prevented them taking a wounded 55-year-old man to hospital. The man stepped on a mine and lost his leg, Mr Chamlai said.

“Our ambulance team was dispatched but was then prevented by Russian troops from taking the man to hospital,” he said. “The soldiers ordered to bring him back to his house where he will definitely die.”

Ukrainian forces said Russian paratroopers had landed near the eastern city of Kharkiv on Wednesday, leading to street fighting on the outskirts of the city. Local officials said a cruise missile hit a city council meeting, blowing off the top of the building and wounding three. At least 18 people have been reported killed in the city in the past day.

Residents fleeing Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-most populous city, told the BBC they were experiencing heavy aerial bombardment.

“It is exhausting and terrifying living under this pressure,” said Iryna Ruzhynska, 40, who was sheltering with her family in her second-floor apartment on Wednesday.

“We have put scotch tape on the windows and pillows by the window stills,” Ms Ruzhynska said. “We don’t turn on the lights, only the torches on our phones. We managed to go to the store yesterday, but we queued for four hours and there was virtually no food left.”

There were growing fears in the capital Kyiv over a 40-mile long convoy of Russian military vehicles just 15 miles north of the city, though US officials said on Wednesday the column was barely moving. Russia’s air force struck a television mast in the capital on Tuesday, killing five people at the site of a Nazi massacre which killed over over 33,000, mostly Jews, and a missile strike west of Kyiv, in the city of Zhytomyr, killed four people including a child, a Ukrainian official said.

President Zelensky, who is Jewish, condemned the strike at Babi Yar, the site of the massacre, accusing the Russians in a statement on Wednesday of trying to “erase” Ukrainians.

“They know nothing about our capital. About our history. But they have an order to erase our history. Erase our country. Erase us all,” he said.

A UK government spokesperson said Prime Minister Boris Johnson spoke to Mr Zelensky on Wednesday “to condemn the abhorrent attacks on Ukraine in the recent hours and days”.

In an address on Tuesday, the US president Joe Biden called Russian President Vladimir Putin a “dictator” and promised “robust action to make sure the pain of our sanctions is targeted at Russia’s economy”.

Nearly a week after invading, Russia is facing increasing economic turmoil at home as it is hit by increasing sanctions. Some Russian banks have been excluded from the international SWIFT payments system and Russia’s central bank may face efforts to prevent it accessing £470 billion ($630 billion) of foreign reserves.

The Moscow Stock Exchange remained closed for the third day in a row on Wednesday as authorities tried to limit the impact of the sanctions.

“The Russian economy has suffered a serious blow,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, insisting that it was “still standing”.

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Russian primary school children detained for anti-war protest

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When I saw reports and photographs on Tuesday suggesting that primary school children had been arrested by police in Moscow for laying flowers at the Ukrainian embassy and holding signs saying “No to war” I refused to believe it was real.

But now it has been confirmed by the Nobel prize-winning newspaper Novaya Gazeta. In an update the newspaper says the children have since been released.

The images show the children with officers behind metal bars, perhaps in a police vehicle, and then in a police station, holding their flowers and placards.

The Kremlin appears to be taking increasingly draconian measures to try to keep a grip on its war narrative.

В ОВД Пресненское детей и их родителей оставляют на ночь. Полиция задержала их, когда они возлагали цветы у посольства Украины

Фото: фейсбук pic.twitter.com/Wq3trWsjPN

— Новая Газета (@novaya_gazeta) March 1, 2022

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Russia To Retaliate For US Expulsion Of 12 Diplomats At UN

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Moscow: Russia said on Tuesday it would retaliate over the US expulsion of 12 of its diplomats at the United Nations for alleged spying.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the US action “will not remain without a proper reaction and an answer – not necessarily symmetrical.”

The United States said on Monday the expelled diplomats were “intelligence operatives” who had been “engaging in espionage activities that are adverse to our national security.”

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Ukraine President Tells Biden: “Must Stop Aggressor As Soon As Possible”

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Kyiv: Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday in a phone call with US President Joe Biden that it was important to stop “aggressor” Russia as soon as possible.

“Just had a conversation with the US President. The American leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defence assistance to Ukraine was discussed,” Zelensky said on Twitter following the call.

Just had a conversation with @POTUS. The American leadership on anti-Russian sanctions and defense assistance to Ukraine was discussed. We must stop the aggressor as soon as possible. Thank you for your support!

— Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) March 1, 2022

“We must stop the aggressor as soon as possible,” Zelensky added.

The White House said the leaders spoke for “just over 30 minutes”.

The phone call came on day six of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, amid escalating violence in the capital Kyiv and the eastern city of Kharkiv.

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Russia Says “Danger” Of Ukraine Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Needed Response

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Geneva: Russia’s foreign minister told a Geneva disarmament meeting on Tuesday that Ukraine has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, a “real danger” that needed a Russian response.

Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday in what it called a special operation to demilitarise and “denazify” the country – a justification dismissed by Kyiv and the West as propaganda.

“Today the dangers that (Ukrainian President Volodymyr) Zelenskiy’s regime pose for neighbouring countries and international security in general have increased substantially after the authorities set up in Kyiv have embarked upon dangerous games related to plans to acquire their own nuclear weapons,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told the Conference on Disarmament in a video address.

“Ukraine still has Soviet nuclear technologies and the means of delivery of such weapons. We cannot fail to respond to this real danger,” he said, also calling for Washington to rebase its nuclear weapons from Europe.

He delivered the speech to a thin crowd after many diplomats including France and Britain staged a walk-out to protest Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as they did at a parallel UN meeting in Geneva on Tuesday.

They stood in a circle outside the meeting for the duration of Lavrov’s speech, holding a Ukrainian flag. Lavrov was supposed to attend the session in person but the visit was cancelled, with Russia accusing unidentified EU states of blocking his flight path.

Earlier, a minute of silence was held for the victims of fighting in Ukraine.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has enlivened the deadlocked arms negotiating forum that has failed to reach a deal in decades despite holding over 1,600 plenary meetings.

At the same meeting, Ukraine’s foreign minister accused Russia of war crimes through its shelling of his country and the ambassador called for a special meeting to address Russian aggression and weapons of mass destruction.

A copy of the request seen by Reuters said the meeting would address the “the use of conventional weapons against the civilian population as well as nuclear and other WMD threats” and called for concrete and specific actions.

It said the request was supported by “numerous other” members of the 65-member body, without naming them. Russia’s delegate objected to the meeting.

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Five Killed In Russian Missile Strike On Ukrainian Capital’s TV Tower

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Kyiv: An apparent Russian airstrike aimed at Kyiv’s main television tower killed five people on Tuesday, officials said, knocking out some broadcasts but leaving the structure intact.

After a blast sounded around the city and smoke was seen rising in the Babi Yar district, the emergencies service said five people were also injured in the attack.

Ukrainian officials released footage of charred bodies and cars damaged by the strike, which came during a surge of Russian attacks on Ukraine’s second city of Kharkiv.

“To the world: what is the point of saying ‘never again’ for 80 years, if the world stays silent when a bomb drops on the same site of Babi Yar,” Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky asked in a tweet.

“Once again, these barbarians are murdering the victims of Holocaust!”

The tower is based near the Babi Yar ravine where more than 30,000 were slaughtered by the Nazis during World War II.

The tragedy is commemorated by a memorial statue and is a site of pilgrimage for many Jews.

Ukrainian officials accused Moscow of threatening the memorial.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack damaged the tower’s transformer substation, which provides it with electricity, as well as some of its hardware.

The interior ministry said that back-up systems would be put into operation to restore programming.

Most Ukrainian channels appeared to be functioning normally about an hour after the strike.

Earlier, the Russian defence ministry spokesman had said that Moscow’s forces would hit technological infrastructure in Kyiv “to suppress information attacks on Russia”.

But the targets he cited — the SBU security service and the army psychological operations unit — did not include the civilian-run television tower in the capital.

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Homes hit by bombs in Borodyanka – eyewitnesses

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Footage has emerged of destroyed residential buildings which eyewitnesses say were bombed in the town of Borodyanka, in the Kyiv Oblast region of Ukraine.

The social media videos have been verified by the BBC.

In one of the clips a man can be heard saying civilians are being bombed: “No troops here, just ordinary residents of Borodyanka – grannies, grandads, kids. People are sheltering in basements. People, you must see what’s going on here.”

In another video, where you can see a children’s playground in the background, an eyewitness says three to four bombs were dropped from a plane. He also says moaning can still be heard from the houses.

Borodyanka, in Kyiv oblast, reduced to rubble. Russian MoD still insists they're not targeting civilians. pic.twitter.com/YaEHShKSWm

— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) March 1, 2022

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Zelensky urges Biden to send strong message on Russia and says: ‘I’m not iconic. Ukraine is iconic’

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Kyiv, Ukraine (CNN): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has urged US counterpart Joe Biden to deliver a strong and “useful” message about the Russian invasion at his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, in an exclusive interview with CNN and Reuters from the bunker in Kyiv in which he is leading his military’s response.

In the rare interview on Tuesday afternoon, Zelensky said that as long as Moscow’s attacks on Ukrainian cities continued, little progress could be made in talks between the two nations.

“You have to speak first of all. Everybody has to stop fighting and to go [back] to that point from where it began five, six days ago,” Zelensky said. “I think there are principal things you can do … If you do this, and that side does this, it means they are ready for peace. If they (are not) ready, it means you’re just wasting time.”

Asked if he felt Ukraine was wasting its time by talking with Russia, he said: “We’ll see.” Officials from the two countries met for the first time on Monday since Russia’s invasion began last week.

Zelensky has drawn global praise for his response to the invasion, having refused offers to evacuate and instead delivering frequent messages to Ukrainians as Kyiv comes under Russian assault.

Earlier on Tuesday he received a standing ovation for an emotional address to the European Parliament via video link, telling delegates: “We are fighting for our life.”

Asked by CNN about his transformation from comic actor to world-famous wartime leader, Zelensky responded: “It’s very serious, it’s not a movie … I’m not iconic, I think Ukraine is iconic.”

“Ukraine is the heart of Europe, and now I think Europe sees Ukraine is something special for this world,” he added. “That’s why [the] world can’t lose this something special.”

Fresh strikes rocked Kyiv on Tuesday, with Russia ramping up its assault on the capital and other key locations. There are fears that Russia is attempting to knock out the city’s communications infrastructure after hitting an area near Kyiv’s TV tower, taking out broadcasting hardware, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Ukrainian leader appeared tired and stressed but was friendly with crews from CNN and Reuters. He said he hadn’t seen his family for three days; asked what his typical days are like, he said: “Work and sleep.”