KYIV, March 22 - Russia stepped up its missile and drone attacks against Ukraine on Wednesday, killing students and other civilians, in a violent follow-up to dueling high-level diplomatic missions aimed at bringing peace after 13 months of war.

KYIV, March 21 - Vodafone Ukraine data analysts have analyzed the movement of Ukrainians abroad during the war.

According to the company's announcement on Monday, the top five countries by the number of Ukrainians forced to seek temporary protection during the war included Poland (27.7%), the Czech Republic (11.5%), Hungary (7.31%), Germany (6.44%), Romania (5.9%).

KYIV, March 21 – In 26 days of active fighting, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) destroyed four of ten Russian armies, including three shock and one air armies, Oleksiy Arestovych, adviser to the head of the President's Office has said.

KYIV, March 22 - Talks between Ukraine and Russia are confrontational but moving forward, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday, as the West plans to announce more sanctions against the Kremlin amid a worsening humanitarian crisis.

WASHINGTON, March 22 - U.S. President Joe Biden and his European counterparts will announce new sanctions against Russia and new measures to tighten existing sanctions during his trip to Brussels this week, Reuters reported citing national security adviser Jake Sullivan.

NEW YORK, March 22 - The UN secretary general, Antonio Guterres, has said it is time for Russia to end its “absurd” and “unwinnable” war in Ukraine, as the EU prepared to set up a “trust fund” aimed at helping Kyiv repel the invasion and rebuild afterwards, The Guardian reported.

KYIV, March 22 - Ukrainian forces fought off continuing Russian efforts to occupy Mariupol and claimed to have retaken a strategic suburb of Kyiv on Tuesday, mounting a defense so dogged that it is stoking fears Russia’s Vladimir Putin will escalate the war to new heights, The Associated Press reported.

KYIV, March 22 – The Armed Forces of Ukraine have the necessary capabilities to return all territories that were temporarily occupied by Russia under the control of Kyiv, the American television channel CNN reports, citing a senior Pentagon official.

KYIV, March 22 – On the twenty-seventh day of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the enemy continues to deliver missile and bomb strikes using air attack weapons against military and civilian infrastructure facilities in Zhytomyr, Kyiv, Chernihiv, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reports.

KYIV, March 22 – President Volodymyr Zelensky will take part in a NATO summit on March 24 via video format, press secretary of the head of state Serhiy Nykyforov has said.