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Germany welcomes Ukraine's Jews, 77 years after the Holocaust

Berlin (AFP) - At the entrance to a school in Berlin, multicoloured letters spell out "welcome" for nine Jewish children from Ukraine above a drawing of the German, Ukrainian and Israeli flags surrounded by red hearts.

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For Odesa, there's echoes of troubled past as Russian threat moves closer

Odesa has meant romance and terror for as long as I can remember. Now another generation of refugees are fleeing terror — this time from war and occupation, writes Norman Swan.

ABC News

VIDEO: Odessa Firefighters Rescue 2 Cats As Search For Survivors In Kharkiv Continues

Ukraine's President Zelensky has praised rescue workers, saying they are doing jobs usually reserved for military personnel.

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In Odessa, Russia's war redistributes the roles

Odessa (Ukraine) (AFP) - Andriy Kharlamov, a baritone at Odessa's famed opera house, fills sandbags and is learning how to handle weapons, while Inga Kordynovska, a lawyer, supervises the distribution of aid to thousands of people in a converted food court.

AFP

Brave Ukrainians heading BACK into warzone from Poland say 'no-one believes Russia'

The Mirror spoke with brave Ukrainians - including families with young children - waiting to catch the return journey BACK to Ukraine from Poland one afternoon this week

Daily Mirror

Night Train to Safety: One Ukrainian Family’s Odyssey

Ludmila Lichko wearily cradles her nine-year old son Ivan aboard a crowded train as it pulls out of Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa just before midnight and heads south towards the Romanian border, moving away from the war engulfing their country. Fleeing with Ivan and her other son, 16-year-old…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Londoner running Ukrainian orphanage evacuates 270 children from Odesa warzone

A Londoner rescuing orphans from the horrors of war in Ukraine has hit out at the British Government for not doing enough to accommodate refugees despite the UK’s relative wealth compared to the war-torn eastern European country’s neighbours.

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Meet the Ukrainian couples training for war

A generation of Ukrainians who knew of war only from history books and the stories of their grandparents has been forced to prepare to fight, and some are choosing to do it with the partners they were building their lives with only weeks ago.

Reuters

Russia Says it Used Hypersonic Missiles in Ukraine

Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday it had destroyed a large underground depot for missiles and aircraft ammunition in Ukraine's Ivano-Frankivsk region using hypersonic missiles, the Interfax news agency reported. The ministry said it had also destroyed Ukrainian military radio and reconnaissance centers near the port city of Odessa using…

Asharq Al-Awsat

$In New York's 'Little Odessa,' solidarity but also fractures over war$

In New York's 'Little Odessa,' solidarity but also fractures over war

New York (AFP) - When Russia attacked Ukraine, Bobby Rakhman changed the name of his grocery store in the "Little Odessa" neighborhood of New York from Taste of Russia to International Foods out of respect for his Ukrainian neighbors.

AFP

Defiant Odessa Is Seen Vulnerable to Russian Sea Assault

Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag defenses and "hedgehog" anti-tank barriers as German and Romanian forces approach. Fast forward 81 years, and similar scenes are playing out in the picturesque Black…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Defiant Odessa is seen vulnerable to Russian sea assault

Black and white newsreel from 1941 shows residents of Odessa, then a Soviet city, building barricades with cobblestones, while the streets are lined with sandbag defences and "hedgehog" anti-tank barriers as German and Romanian forces approach.

Reuters

Sandbags and songs on Odessa beach as Ukrainians help build defences

Residents of Odessa formed a human chain on Monday to carry heavy sandbags from the beach onto waiting trucks as the Ukrainian port city frantically built defences against advancing Russian troops.

Reuters

Are certain dishes Ukrainian or Russian? It's complicated

LOS ANGELES — "In Ukraine, we were Jews. In America, we are Russians. But in reality, we are from Ukraine, when it was part of the U.S.S.R."

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'Brave' elderly couple confront armed Russian soldiers entering their Ukrainian home

It is understood the tense moment between the Ukrainian couple and Russian soldiers happened in Mykolayiv Oblast, about 80 miles east of Odessa in southern Ukraine

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Forces Squeeze Kyiv, Surround Mariupol

Russian forces inched towards Kyiv Saturday and pounded civilian areas in other Ukrainian cities as concerns grew over the besieged southern port of Mariupol, where officials said more than 1,500 people had been killed. Air raid sirens sounded Saturday in several cities, including the capital Kyiv, Odessa, Dnipro and Kharkiv,…

Reuters

Fearing Russian shelling, Ukrainians try to shield their heritage

After Russian forces began attacking Ukrainian cities such as Mariupol, museums and local authorities rushed to protect their heritage, stowing away precious artworks, religious icons, and fortifying national monuments.

The Independent UK

Ukrainian naval band plays ‘Don’t Worry, Be Happy’ next to sandbags in Odesa

Odessa is Ukraine’s last remaining major port on the Black Sea

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Ukraine 'destroys' Russian warship that shelled Snake Island on first day of invasion

Video footage appears to capture the shocking moment rockets were fired into the night sky amid the defence of Odessa as residents prepared to defend the city of one million

Reuters

'Don’t Worry, Be Happy': Behind sandbags, Odessa waits to see if it's next

(This March 8 story refiles to correct typographical error in byline)

Reuters

Soldiers defending Ukraine's Odessa give flowers for Women's Day

They fear a Russian attack is imminent, but soldiers in Ukraine's Odessa took time to buy friends and family flowers for Women's Day on Tuesday even though life in the Black Sea port has been turned upside down.

The Independent UK

‘We f****** hit them’: Russian warship that attacked Snake Island soldiers ‘destroyed’

Video footage appears to show Ukrainian navy exchanging fire with Russian ships as it defends the Black Sea port of Odessa

AFP

US sends more troops to Europe, says all Russia forces deployed

Washington (AFP) - The United States is sending 500 more troops to Europe to boost NATO security, an official said Monday as the Pentagon determined Russia has committed nearly all its combat power stationed along the border into Ukraine.

France 24

How far will it spiral? Russian invasion draws NATO closer to Ukraine

Does the West go all in? A third day of broken ceasefire promises in Ukraine clearly illustrates that Russia has gone all in and will not settle for anything short of victory on the battlefield. We ask about the latest out of the crucial port cities of Odessa and Mariupol…

Daily Mirror

Video captures moment Ukrainian navy opens fire and appears to hit Russian warship

The video was filmed during the defence of the Odessa region, in southern Ukraine, in the early hours of this morning and shared by the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine

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