Month: March 2022

Getty Images The government has launched its Homes for Ukraine site for those wanting to register to host a refugee, with 20,000 signing up since it went live. Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove said the UK had a history of “supporting the most vulnerable during their darkest hours”. He said there would be no
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Getty Images When the Russian offensive started, as sirens sounded in Kyiv for the first time, some people here feared that the city might fall by the afternoon. Reports were coming in of a long convoy of armour and heavy weapons pushing down from the north-west. Military analysts had a high opinion of the Russian
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In the early days of the invasion, Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine fought back a Russian armoured column. Since then, it has suffered nightly Russian airstrikes and shelling, with dozens of civilians killed and hundreds injured. The BBC’s Quentin Sommerville and cameraman Darren Conway have spent the week with the Ukrainian forces as they fight to
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SOPA Images/Getty Images Western officials have said they are “very concerned” about the risk of escalation in the war between Russia and Ukraine. They are particularly concerned about the possibility of Russia using non-conventional weapons, they say. This most likely refers to chemical weapons although the term also covers tactical (small-scale) nuclear weapons, biological weapons
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