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02-03-2022
KYIV/ MOSCOW: Russia intensifies its attacks on key Ukrainian cities with fighting raging for a seventh day in the north, east and south.
Russian paratroopers have landed in Kharkiv in the north-east, Ukraine says, with heavy fighting reported.
In the south, Russia says it has taken control of the port of Kherson but its mayor says it’s still held by Ukrainian forces.
A 40 mile-long convoy of Russian armoured vehicles is about 15 miles north of the capital Kyiv.
The United Nations says more than 800,000 people have now fled Ukraine.
Meanwhile, the US says it will ban Russian airlines from its airspace following the lead of the European Union and Canada.
Major companies such as Apple, Google, Ford and Exxon Mobil have taken steps against Russia over the invasion.
There is intense fighting in the north, east and south of the country, with the key .Ukrainian cities of Kharkiv and Kherson being targeted by Russian artillery.
A missile struck a police quarters and a university building in Kharkiv this morning. Four people are reported to have died.
Russia claims to have taken control of the strategic Black Sea port city of Kherson, but local authorities’ claim the city is still under Ukrainian control.
President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of trying to erase Ukrainian history and praises the Ukrainian army’s resilience.
PM Boris Johnson vowed the UK would further ratchet up the economic pressure and support for Ukraine with finance, weapons and humanitarian assistance.
Almost 700,000 people have fled Ukraine. The United Nation has called for more supplies.
Oil and wholesale gas prices have risen sharply as the invasion enters a seventh day
Russian and Belarusian athletes will be allowed to compete at the Beijing Paralympics, but as neutrals.
Russia wants to reinstate fugitive Ukrainian leader
Russia wants to declare former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych – ousted during anti-government protests in 2013-14 – as the new leader of Ukraine, the Ukrayinska Pravda news and analysis website has reported, quoting Ukrainian intelligence.
Yanukovych is now in Minsk, according to the Ukrainian website’s source. He fled to Russia in 2014.
The Kremlin may be preparing a media operation or campaign to bring Yanukovych back to Ukraine, or publish an address from him to the Ukrainian people, the newspaper said.
In January the UK said Moscow was plotting to install a pro-Moscow figure to lead Ukraine’s government.
The Foreign Office named former Ukrainian MP Yevhen Murayev as a potential Kremlin candidate.
