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(Reuters) – Hours after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared war in a pre-dawn Thursday televised address, social media users living in countries near Ukraine began setting up online networks to support refugees. By Friday evening, at least 100,000 people had signed up to various groups on Facebook and other platforms, offering their homes, money and …

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) – NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Friday the alliance was deploying parts of its combat-ready response force and would continue to send weapons to Ukraine, including air defences, while saying that Russia was trying to topple the Ukrainian government. “We see rhetoric, the messages, which is strongly indicating that the aim is …

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By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Pope Francis went to the Russian embassy to the Vatican on Friday to relay his concern over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine to Moscow’s ambassador, in an unprecedented departure from diplomatic protocol. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the pope spent more than half an hour at the embassy. “He …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Russian assault on Ukraine was more brutal on Friday with attacks on civilian infrastructure and Kyiv, but Moscow’s forces did not advance as planned and the capital remained firmly in Ukrainian control, Ukrainian Ambassador to the United States Oksana Markarova said. Russia has deliberately targeted some of Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure and …

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By Alan Charlish and Fedja Grulovic MEDYKA, Poland/SIGHETU MARMATIEI, Romania (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Ukrainians, mostly women and children, crossed into Poland, Romania, Hungary and Slovakia on Friday as Russian missiles pounded the capital Kyiv and men of fighting age were told to remain. Many waited for hours in freezing conditions to leave …

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(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said on Friday, after speaking with leaders of NATO nations, that the military alliance would maintain its “Open Door” policy to European states who share its values and may someday seek to join. (Reporting by Dan Whitcombl; Editing by Tim Ahmann)

By Robin Emmott, Sabine Siebold and Tom Balmforth BRUSSELS/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looks designed to take Kyiv and create a land corridor south to the Black Sea, splitting the country into two, military analysts and former officials said, echoing the view of Ukraine’s generals. President Vladimir Putin may still seek some form …

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By Cooper Inveen and George Obulutsa (Reuters) – When Percy Ohene-Yeboah peered down from his high-rise apartment in the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine on Thursday morning, the street below was clogged with traffic. People hurried along the sidewalks, wheeling suitcases behind them. The Ghanaian engineering student went to a window on the other …

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(Reuters) – Ukraine’s nuclear agency said on Friday it was recording increased radiation levels from the site of the defunct Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Experts at the agency did not provide exact radiation levels but said the change was due to the movement of heavy military equipment in the area lifting radioactive dust into the …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with officials from the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk republics of eastern Ukraine on Friday on their plans to open embassies in Moscow, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed decrees on Monday to recognise the two breakaway regions as independent states before …

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