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Ukraine border guards stop man trying to flee country in woman's clothing

Ukrainian border guards said they stopped a 26-year-old man clad in a long black jacket and a leopard-skin hat as he tried to escape the country through a taxi checkpoint in Odessa

Daily Mirror

Russian Warship 'Seriously Damaged' in Ammunition Explosion

The Russian navy's Black Sea flagship has been "seriously damaged" by an ammunition explosion, Russian state media said Thursday. "As a result of a fire, ammunition detonated on the Moskva missile cruiser. The ship was seriously damaged," the Russian defense ministry was quoted as saying, adding that the cause of…

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Ukrainian grandmother, 86, reunited with dog after being forced to separate in war

Violetta, 86, escaped her home in Odessa, Ukraine, when Russia invaded and was forced to leave her 12-year-old dog behind - after six weeks apart, the pair have finally reunited in Ireland

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Boris Johnson's PR stunts can't mask his failures as Prime Minister

Without a thought for his own safety Michael Marley took off from his home in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, to make a 3000-mile journey to the Ukrainian city of Odessa to bring back his daughter-in-law Anna and her son Leo, six.

Daily Record

Missile strikes rock Odesa in south Ukraine

KYIV, Ukraine: Latest developments in the Russian war on Ukraine.

Bangkok Post

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.

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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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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…

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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.

Evening Standard

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…

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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…

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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.

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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.

Los Angeles Times

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."

Daily Mirror

'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

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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,…

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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

Daily Mirror

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

The Times of India

Nashik youth stayed back for 4 days in Odessa to get pet passport for his husky

NASHIK: Rohan Ambhure, a Nashik-based sixth-year student of the Odessa National Medical University, waited four additional days before leaving Ukraine just to make sure that his pet — an Alaskan husky named Delta — could come along with him. Ambhure needed that time to get a passport for Delta to…

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