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The American magazine "Time" released a statement yesterday in which it said that journalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud, killed in Ukraine, was working on a film project for his sister company TIME Studios, and expressed deep regret at his death.more

From February 24, Border Guard officers checked 1.758 million people fleeing from Ukraine to Poland at border crossings, the authority informed today. Meanwhile, there is now a discussion across the country about how to deal with the new situation and how long the aid system will continue to function flawlessly.more

Today there will be another round of Russian-Ukrainian talks, said Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who is quoted by the Ukrainian Pravda portal. Yesterday's talks, mainly concerning the situation in besieged Mariupol, did not bring any breakthrough.more

In the light of the Russian attack on Ukraine, Ireland will have to rethink its policy of neutrality in the future, said yesterday the prime minister of the country, Micheal Martin. These are the next reports on this subject since Putin started the invasion of a neighboring country.more

Russia is taking revenge for economic sanctions imposed by the UK government, allowing copyright infringement of Peppa Pig, the heroine of the famous British animated series for children, to go unpunished, according to British media.more

We should realize that we have a choice between confronting Putin now or later, because he will not stop in Ukraine, former NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview for Radio Free Europe. He added that, in his opinion, the West had not done enough to scare Russia away.more

British finance minister Rishi Sunak yesterday called on more British companies to end their investments in Russia so far and added that in his opinion "there are no arguments" for new investments in the Russian economy.more

Moved by the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, scientists from the Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences initiated an action to help students and scientists from Ukraine. The #ScienceForUkraine initiative they initiated quickly spread around the world.more

Currently, the key task is to help the besieged Mariupol, said the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video posted on Facebook.more

The US President's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said today that the Russian air raid "near the Polish border proves that President Putin is spreading the lines of the attacks." He also warned China against helping Moscow. In turn, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte described the attack as "extremely disturbing".more

The President of the Republic of Poland, Andrzej Duda, suggested today in an interview with the BBC that Russia's use of chemical weapons in Ukraine may induce NATO to reconsider its decision not to participate directly in this conflict.more

An American freelance filmmaker has been shot dead while covering the war in Ukraine, Kyiv police announced on Sunday. Brent Renaud, 51, was in a car with other journalists in Irpin, near Kyiv, when Russian troops opened fire. He was shot dead and one of his colleagues was injured. more

Households in the UK will be offered £350 a month to open their homes to people fleeing the war in Ukraine. Housing Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC tens of thousands of people could come to the UK under the scheme and he may offer a room to a refugee.more

The website created by Polish programmers allows to break Russian censorship on the war in Ukraine by sending messages about its true face to random people in Russia, informed the Wall Street Journal.more

Yesterday evening, the Law on Assistance to Ukrainian Citizens in Connection with the Armed Conflict on the Territory of Ukraine was published in the Journal of Laws. Laws regulating, inter alia, issues related to the legality of the stay of Ukrainian refugees in Poland, as well as the assistance provided to them, entered into force.more

The indiscretion of the head of EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, could have thwarted Poland's plan to hand over 28 Soviet MiG-29 fighters to Ukraine so that Ukraine could better defend itself against the Russian invasion, according to a report by the Washington newspaper "Politico".more

The recruitment of mercenaries by Russia or the sending of conscripts to combat shows that it is increasingly looking for alternative sources of replenishing its growing losses, the British Ministry of Defense assessed yesterday in an intelligence update. Russian forces in Ukraine are continuing their progress, but are facing heavy losses due to stiff resistance from Ukrainian troops, added this mmore

A private mercenary military company, the so-called Wagner Group, has begun large-scale recruitment of mercenaries for the war in Ukraine, reports the Russian-language BBC news service. It adds that the Wagner group is now hiring almost all of those who are willing.more

Vladimir Putin has been president of Russia since May 2000 (with a break from 2008-2012). His goal is to make Russia a great power. Now in Ukraine, "Russia is fighting Putin's last battle," wrote yesterday's Bild, citing experts in Kremlin politics. There are many indications that Putin has been struggling with serious health problems for years, and a new figure is being groomed to be the Kremlin'more

Russian troops have so far attacked at least 25 hospitals and other health facilities in Ukraine, British Health Minister Sajid Javid reported today. He reported that the UK had sent six more medical aid planes to Ukraine.more

YouTube announced yesterday that it had blocked channels linked to Russia's state media worldwide. The company's policy prohibits content that denies or belittles documented acts of violence, company spokesman Farshad Shadloo said.more

Most Russian ground forces are approx. 25km from the centre of Kiev, and the Russian column has dispersed, possibly to encircle the city, the UK Ministry of Defence wrote in its daily intelligence update this morning.more

Russian President Vladimir Putin is furious about inaccurate intelligence he received before the invasion of Ukraine, but he received it because the Federal Security Service was afraid to give him real information, writes the British newspaper The Times.more

We are not alone against the enemy, our Polish brothers and sisters are with us. From the very first day of the war, it was clear to Ukrainians and Poles that there are no borders between us - physical, historical, personal and human," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenski announced yesterday.more

The Russians have different intentions towards different regions of Ukraine. In my opinion, even if they fail to capture Kiev, they want to leave in their hands the southern part of the country, the area between Crimea and Donbas," says Ukrainian historian Roman Kabachiy, who is currently about 40 kilometers from the capital.more