Ukrainian farmers are being forced to work at gunpoint and some have had their farms confiscated, according to reports from inside Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces. Meanwhile, farmers on Ukrainian-held land are wearing bulletproof vests and helmets to protect themselves as they work.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin have spoken to the media a day after their meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
The port city of Mariupol was home to 400,000 people before Russia's invasion. It has been under siege by Russian troops and under constant shelling for more than 50 days. The city has been reduced to rubble. Thousands of civilians are believed to have died there.
Russian forces have been accused of committing atrocities in the town of Bucha, northwest of the Ukrainian capital.
The town of Irpin, northeast of the Ukrainian capital, was recently liberated by Ukrainian forces and has been reduced to an eerie wasteland of burned-out buildings, shattered vehicles, and bodies still lying in the streets.
Ukrainian civilians who have escaped from the besieged port city of Mariupol have described scenes of "hell" and say those who remain in the ruins are on the brink of starvation. Russian forces have surrounded the city and have been pounding it with artillery and rocket fire.
Russian President Vladimir Putin cannot win in his war against Ukraine, U.S. President Joe Biden said on March 26 during a visit to Warsaw. He also told a crowd in the Polish capital that the Russian president "cannot remain in power."
Gunfire and the sounds of explosions were heard in the northern Ukrainian city of Slavutych after residents protested against Russian occupation. The city's mayor, Yuriy Fomychev, was filmed addressing crowds saying the Russians had agreed to vacate the city center.
A 27-year-old Ukrainian mother was wounded while protecting her baby during a Russian missile attack. The woman -- named Olha -- was injured as she was breastfeeding her child in Kyiv's Podil district on March 18.
As Russian forces continue to pound the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, an estimated 300,000 trapped residents are struggling to survive.
China and Pakistan share concern about "spillover effects of unilateral sanctions" on Russia over its war against Ukraine and called for a cease-fire and diplomatic resolution of the crisis, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said on March 22.
India says it accidentally fired a missile into Pakistan and has ordered a high-level probe to investigate the matter.
Two Afghan brothers suspected of killing their sister for adopting a Western lifestyle went on trial in Berlin on March 2 in a case that highlights violence against women and cultural tensions among some recent migrants to Germany.
The executive board of the World Bank on March 1 approved a plan to use more than $1 billion from a frozen Afghanistan trust fund to finance urgently needed education, agriculture, health, and family programs, the bank announced.
The Taliban's announcement that it would restrict Afghans from leaving the country under certain circumstances has drawn concern from the United States and the United Kingdom this week amid fears it could hamper ongoing evacuation efforts.
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan announced on February 28 a cut in petrol and electricity prices despite a steep rise in the global oil market, pledging to freeze the new rates until the next budget in June.
Protesting fishermen blockaded the port in Karachi, assembling their trawlers across the main channel to halt all traffic in and out of Pakistan's busiest port, officials said on February 23.
Residents of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, spoke out against Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize areas controlled by separatists in Donetsk and Luhansk as independent.
The United Nations children's agency will pay Afghan teachers a monthly stipend for at least two months, the organization said, as salaries remain unpaid for months amid an economic crisis in Afghanistan.
In televised remarks from the White House in Washington on February 15 U.S. President Joe Biden said Russian Defense Ministry’s statements that some military units are leaving their positions near the border with Ukraine have still not been verified on the ground.
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