Ukraine war latest, at a glance.
- Russia failed to capture Ukraine’s capital city Kyiv during fighting on Saturday night and Sunday morning
- But Russian forces entered Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, on Sunday morning
- Street battles were reported to be taking place
- UN reports that at least 240 Ukrainian civilians have been killed
- A six year-old boy was among those killed after gunfire rang out in Kyiv
- Ukraine has obliterated a 56 tank convoy of feared Chechen fighters
- Among those killed was one of Chechnya’s top generals, Magomed Tushaev
- At least two blasts have rocked the country in the early hours of Sunday local time
- Vasylkiv, which sits southwest of Ukraine, saw its air base’s fuel depot attacked by Russian ballistic missiles
- Subsequent blaze cast an eerie orange glow over Kyiv, around 40 kilometers north east
- Another blast struck the city of Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine, close to the Russian border
- Gas pipeline was blown up there, sending huge mushroom cloud billowing into the sky
- Woman was killed in Kharkiv after Russian shell hit apartment block
- Elon Musk agreed to turn his Starlink satellite network on over Ukraine
- Officials want to ensure locals can still access the internet if Russia destroys telecoms network
- Keen to push back against Russian propaganda, and expose the violence being meted out by Putin’s army
- Russian premier said to be furious at slower-than-expected efforts to conquer Ukraine
- Millions of citizens are sheltering underground
- But others have taken to the streets armed with guns and Molotov cocktails, to try and fight back
- US and EU have agreed to curtail Russia’s use of SWIFT messaging system, which is vital to for global financial transactions
- Donald Trump condemned the invasion Saturday
- He said: ‘The Russian attack on Ukraine is appalling, it’s an outrage and an atrocity that should never have been allowed to occur. It never would have occurred. We are praying for the proud people of Ukraine. God bless them all.’
- China’s ambassador to Ukraine Fan Xianrong shared a video scotching claims he’d fled Kyiv
- Urged other Chinese nationals in Ukraine to shelter
- Comes as China tries to condemn attack while keeping ally Vladimir Putin on side
