This footage of a Kyiv residential building hit by a rocket early on Saturday was released by Ukraine's state emergency services. Ukraine's interior minister has said no one was killed. Get the latest updates here:
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks in an online video posted Feb. 26.Ukrainian forces still control their capital of Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday in a video message posted to his social media. “We have withstood and are successfully repelling enemy attacks. The fighting goes on,” he said.
Ukrainian officials were not immediately available for comment on the fate of Melitopol, a city of about 150,000 people. If confirmed, it would be the first significant population centre the Russians have seized since their invasion began on Thursday.Valentyn Ogirenko/ReutersRussian and Ukrainian forces clashed in Kyiv on Saturday as authorities urged citizens to help defend the city.
Ukraine’s military reported shooting down an II-76 Russian transport plane carrying paratroopers near Vasylkiv, a city 25 miles south of Kyiv, an account confirmed by a senior American intelligence official. It was unclear how many were on board. Transport planes can carry up to 125 paratroopers. Days after encouraging people to put Chinese flags on their cars if they were travelling, China’s embassy in Ukraine is now warning citizens in the country not to “display identifying signs.” The advice comes amid unconfirmed reports on social media of a backlash against Chinese in Ukraine after Beijing publicly backed Russia’s invasion of the country.
Meta Platforms Inc is barring Russian state media from running ads or monetizing on its platform anywhere in the world, the parent company of social media giant Facebook said on Friday. “We also continue to apply labels to additional Russian state media,” its security policy head, Nathaniel Gleicher, said on Twitter. “These changes have already begun rolling out and will continue into the weekend.
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