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Ukrainians rush to buy rifles, shotguns as police relax rules

As Russian rockets pounded targets in eastern Ukraine, men of fighting age lined up for hours outside gun shops in the western city of Lviv on Tuesday to buy hunting rifles and shotguns to protect their communities.

Reuters

Smuggled across Ukraine, these vulnerable children are secretly hiding in a school to escape the horrors of war

Hundreds of Ukrainian children are bundled into buses just after midnight from towns in the north and east of the country. It marks the start of a long and treacherous journey west in search of refuge.

ABC News

Inside a theatre in Ukraine providing refuge to families fleeing war

Refugees Welcome: Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians are on the move as Russia’s invasion intensifies, and homes, hospitals and even theatres are welcoming the displaced, reports Bel Trew from Lviv

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After five days, Sreeja of Vizag is finally out of bunker in Ukraine

In a video message to her parents, the medico said she and a few other Indian students boarded a train to Lviv

The Hindu

Put Ukrainian refugees in oligarchs’ London houses, Lviv mayor says

In interview with Guardian, Andriy Sadovyi also calls for Nato countries to establish immediate no-fly zone over Ukraine

The Guardian - UK

As refugees pour in, a defiant Ukrainian city prepares for war

For millions of Ukrainians, the Russian invasion five days ago brought death, terror and uncertainty. For Mila Hadzieva, an IT manager in the western city of Lviv, it brought a searing clarity of purpose.

Reuters

France to move its embassy in Ukraine to Lviv, says foreign minister

France will move its embassy from Ukrainian capital of Kyiv to the Western city of Lviv, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian told BFM TV on Monday.

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‘Pushed back because we’re Black’: Africans stranded at Ukraine-Poland border

Nigeria and South Africa have expressed alarm at reports that their nationals are being stopped from leaving war-torn Ukraine. At Lviv train station, in western Ukraine, FRANCE 24 met several African students who say they were pushed back at the Medyka border crossing with Poland.

France 24

‘I haven’t told my granny’: Ukraine’s student molotov cocktail-makers

Civilian volunteers come forward in large numbers to help war effort against Russian invasion

The Guardian - UK

British couple stranded in Ukraine after collecting newborn surrogate twins

The couple said the British Embassy has asked them to drive 14 hours to Lviv to collect the emergency travel documents they need to return to the UK

Evening Standard

‘We don’t have much hope’: Desperation grows at Ukraine border as more than half a million refugees flee war

Refugees Welcome: As snow fell on Sunday, some had to turn around and walk back to the nearest main city to find other ways out, reports Bel Trew from Lviv

The Independent UK

Thais evacuated from Ukraine

Forty-seven Thais arrived at the help centre in the Ukrainian city of Lviv with more on their way on Sunday, according to the Thai embassy in Warsaw, the capital of neighbouring Poland.

Bangkok Post

Ukrainian brewery switches from beer to Molotov cocktails

Lviv (Ukraine) (AFP) - In an industrial part of western Ukraine's main city Lviv, employees at the Pravda brewery have responded to the Russian invasion by switching from producing beer to Molotov cocktails.

AFP

‘Everyone was fighting to get on a train’: the desperation of Ukrainians trying to reach safety

The railway station in Lviv near the Polish border is overwhelmed with requests but has almost no tickets

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People in UK can ‘raise’ their voice and donate to aid Ukraine refugees – Unicef

James Elder of Unicef has spoke of ‘harrowing’ scenes in Lviv, in western Ukraine, with thousands of ‘everyday people’ trying to flee.

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Ukranians look to Poland-bound buses to escape Russian invasion

LVIV, Ukraine -- Since Friday, residents of Lviv near the Polish border in western Ukraine have been subject to a curfew that lasts from 10 p.m. to 6.a.m.

Bangkok Post

Evacuation plans stepping up

Some 236 Thai nationals are seeking immediate evacuation out of Ukraine amid attacks by the advancing Russian military forces, the Foreign Ministry osaid.

The Guardian - UK

‘I want to be home:’ overseas students in Ukraine seek safe routes out

Foreign nationals studying in Dnipro on their struggle to leave the city as Russian forces advance

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France 24

Exodus from Ukraine: A night spent with civilians fleeing Russia's invasion

Thousands of Ukrainian civilians have been fleeing the Russian invasion since Thursday and are trying to reach neighbouring Poland. The chaotic evacuation, with dozens of kilometres of traffic jams on the Ukrainian side, foreshadows a large-scale humanitarian crisis. Mehdi Chebil, FRANCE 24’s correspondent on the ground, reports.

Reuters

Ukrainian forces repel Russian attack in Lviv region -mayor

Ukrainian forces repelled a Russian attack in the Lviv region near Brody in western Ukraine, Lviv's mayor was quoted as saying on Saturday by the Telegram messaging service.

Bangkok Post

At the Polish border, tens of thousands of Ukrainian refugees

MEDYKA, Poland: Cradling her three-year-old son, who was gravely ill with cancer, the 25-year-old Ukrainian mother staggered into Poland on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Govt to assist Thais in Ukraine

The government has set up an evacuation centre in Ukraine's western city of Lviv to assist Thai nationals as the Russian military attacks the country.

Reuters

Czechs evacuate Kyiv, Lviv missions, staff on way to Prague

The Czech Republic has evacuated all staff from its embassy in Kyiv and consulate in Lviv and they are on the way to Prague, Czech Radio quoted Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky as saying on Friday.

Al Jazeera

Ukraine: ‘There were so many people willing to give blood today’

How Ukrainian citizens and the diaspora are rallying to help those on the front line – and each other.

Reuters

Guards fire shots as Ukrainians try to cram onto evacuation trains

Ukrainian guards fired warning shots to prevent a stampede at Kyiv's central railway station on Friday as thousands of people tried to force their way onto evacuation trains.

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