• Russian troops have entered Ukraine’s second-largest city, Kharkiv, where street fighting is now taking place.
• President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine is ready for peace talks, but not in Moscow’s preferred venue of Belarus.
• Strikes target Ukrainian oil and gas facilities, igniting a depot near the capital, Kyiv.
• Western powers impose sweeping sanctions on Moscow, move to supply Ukraine with weapons.
Here are all the latest updates:
7 mins ago (08:59 GMT)
UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT SLAMS RUSSIAN ‘TERROR’
Zelenskyy has urged world powers to scrap Russia’s voting power at the UN Security Council (UNSC), saying Russian actions in his country verged on “genocide”.
“This is terror. They are going to bomb our Ukrainian cities even more, they are going to kill our children even more subtly. This is the evil that has come to our land and must be destroyed,” the Ukrainian president said in a short video message.
Source: National News Agency