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Live One killed as shelling hits civilian targets in Dnipro Update 11 March 2022



 Live One killed as shelling hits civilian objectives in Dnipro

Joy as Racheal reunites with own family after fleeing Ukraine

Russia may additionally lose 'maximum favoured state reputation' over Ukraine - assets

'Fear and lies': How Vladimir Putin needs Russians to look the war

Why a Russian embassy growth alarmed the Irish Government

08:35

Putin says volunteers welcome to assist combat against Ukrainian forces

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he desired to allow volunteers to fight against Ukrainian forces and approved turning in captured Western missile structures to Russian-subsidized revolt opponents.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu proposed turning in American made anti-tank structures which includes Javelin and Stinger to opponents from the rebel regions of Luhansk and Donetsk.

Mr Putin, speakme at a Russian security council assembly, said he supported such an idea.

He also said that individuals who desired to volunteer to combat with Russian-sponsored forces need to be allowed to.

Mr Shoigu stated there were 16,000 volunteers in the Middle East who were prepared to come back to combat with Russian-backed forces

08:32

Ukraine has suffered €108bn in losses because of war - deputy economy minister

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has prompted €108bn in damages to Ukraine's financial system, deputy economy minister Denys Kudin said.

He said seventy five% of firms in war-hit regions had stopped running and most metallurgical companies in eastern Ukraine were now not running.

"This approach we can have fewer exports of metals," he said, adding that metals exports accounted for a "big proportion" of Ukraine's average exports.

08:25

Two Ukrainian infantrymen killed at Lutsk airport - authorities

Two Ukrainian soldiers had been killed in Russian moves on the Lutsk army airport in northwest Ukraine, nearby government said.

"At 05.45am four rockets have been fired ... By means of a Russian military bomber on the Lutsk army airfield," said local administration professional Yuriy Pohuliayko on Telegram, including that "two squaddies had been killed and six wounded".

Earlier, Russian defence ministry spokesman Igor Konachenkov announced that "Lutsk and Ivano-Frankivsk military airfields had been placed out of motion".

Lutsk mayor Ihor Polishchuk wrote on Facebook: "Explosions at the airport aspect. Everyone to shelters! Do no longer put up any images, addresses or coordinates!"

08:09

Ukraine says Russia has killed greater civilians than infantrymen

Russian forces invading Ukraine have killed extra Ukrainian civilians than soldiers, Ukraine's Defence Minister Oleksii Reznikov has said.

"I want this to be heard no longer only in Kyiv however all over the global," he stated

08:06

Russian metals tycoon troubles caution

Confiscating the belongings of agencies which have fled Russia after the invasion of Ukraine would shatter investor self belief for many years and take Russia lower back to the calamitous days of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution, metals wealthy person Vladimir Potanin said.

Mr Potanin, the largest shareholder in Norilsk Nickel GMKN.MM, the world's biggest producer of palladium and refined nickel, stated Russia have to respond with pragmatism to its exclusion from complete swathes of the worldwide economy.

"We must now not try to 'slam the door' but endeavour to maintain Russia's financial role in those markets which we spent goodbye cultivating," Mr Potanin, the sixty one-12 months-vintage president of Norilsk Nickel, stated on the Telegram messaging app.

Mr Potanin said confiscating belongings from businesses which had left Russia would put the united states out in the bloodless for buyers for decades.

"It could take us back one hundred years to 1917 and the results - a worldwide lack of confidence in Russia from buyers - we would feel for many a long time," he said.

Russia's economy is facing the gravest crisis for the reason that 1991 fall of the Soviet Union after the West imposed heavy sanctions on almost the complete Russian monetary and company gadget following Moscow's 24 February invasion of Ukraine.

08:03

Russia persisted to ship pipeline fuel into Germany through Nord Stream 1 and Poland and into Slovakia via Ukraine at broadly unchanged ranges, pipeline operator statistics confirmed this morning.

Flows thru the Nord Stream 1 pipeline which crosses the Baltic Sea to Germany were steady at seventy three,553,544 kWh/h, operator data confirmed.

On the Yamal-Europe pipeline, which traverses Belarus and Poland, westward flows into Germany on the Mallnow border factor stood at eight,073,389 kilowatt hours in line with hour (kWh/h), data from operator Gascade showed, barely higher than on Thursday.

The pipeline typically accounts for approximately 15% of Russia's supply of fuel to Europe however have been working in reverse mode at Mallnow from 21 December, which helped drive up European fuel expenses.


07:fifty nine

'Overwhelmed but genuinely happy': Carlow student Racheal Diyaolu arrives correctly returned in Ireland after fleeing Ukraine


07:fifty seven

'Pretty heavy' shelling on Kyiv


Ukrainian MP and chief of the Voice Party Kira Rudik has said the shelling in a single day in Kyiv was "pretty heavy".

She instructed RTÉ's Morning Ireland that the town is not but surrounded via Russian forces, however people have been warned about the possibility of chemical weapons being used in opposition to them.


"We have become equipped for siege and today we were knowledgeable that there's a chance in their chemical or biological assault, so I'm right now on my manner to the City Hall in which we're going to be discussing like what to do to protect humans," she said.

07:fifty three

Russian steelmaker Evraz stated that 10 members of its board had give up following the British sanction of biggest shareholder Roman Abramovich and the suspension of its shares, with simplest the chief government closing.


It said it was expecting similarly clarifications from the British Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation.

Meanwhile. Every person interested in buying Mr Abromovich's Chelsea Football Club can method the British authorities and make an offer, the government stated this morning.

"As the license conditions are written nowadays, the sale might not be allowed. However, if a customer emerged it might be open to that buyer or to that soccer club to approach the authorities and ask for the situations to be various in a manner that lets in that sale to take location," Britain's technology minister Chris Philp informed Sky News.

Russian shelling hit civilian objectives in principal Ukraine's Dnipro metropolis, as Moscow's troops edged toward Kyiv, in which officials stated the capital was being transformed into a "fortress".

Hundreds of heaps of civilians remained trapped and beneath fire in Ukrainian towns, together with besieged Mariupol, after the first talks among Moscow and Kyiv's top diplomats ended Thursday with none progress.

In the early hours of this morning, Russian struggle planes performed what regarded to be the primary direct attack on Dnipro, killing one individual, emergency offerings stated.

Three air moves hit a kindergarten, rental constructing and a shoe factory, the emergency services announcement said.

Elsewhere, the Ukrainian military warned "the enemy is making an attempt to remove the defences of the Ukrainian forces around" areas to the west and northwest of the capital "to block Kyiv."

"We can't rule out a motion of the enemy to the east towards Brovary," it said in a announcement.

Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitschko said 1/2 the metropolis's populace had fled and the capital "has been converted into a fort".

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