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Russian forces pounded the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, shelling its downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and elsewhere to avoid the explosions. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Russia kept up its bombardment of other cities throughout the country. (AP)
US rushing $200 million in weapons for Ukraine's defence
Around 13,000 people were evacuated from a number of Ukrainian cities on Saturday, said deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk, almost twice the number who managed to get out the previous day: Reuters
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10:03 AM (IST), Mar 13
"If they decide to carpet bomb and simply erase the history of this region ... and destroy all of us, then they will enter Kyiv. If that's their goal, let them come in, but they will have to live on this land by themselves," Zelenskiy said on Saturday.

09:54 AM (IST), Mar 13
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to break his country apart, as well as starting ``a new stage of terror'' with the alleged detention of a mayor from a city west of Mariupol.

09:16 AM (IST), Mar 13
Talks aimed at reaching a cease-fire again failed Saturday, and while the US announced plans to provide another $200 million to Ukraine for weapons, a senior Russian diplomat warned that Moscow could attack foreign shipments of military equipment.

09:13 AM (IST), Mar 13
More than 1,500 people have died in Mariupol during the siege, according to the mayor's office, and the shelling has even interrupted efforts to bury the dead in mass graves.

09:07 AM (IST), Mar 13
In Mariupol, which has endured some of the worst punishment since Russia invaded, efforts to bring food, water and medicine into the port city of 430,000 and to evacuate civilians, were prevented by unceasing attacks.

09:04 AM (IST), Mar 13
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of trying to break his country apart, as well as starting "a new stage of terror'' with the alleged detention of a mayor from a city west of Mariupol.

08:30 AM (IST), Mar 13
Zelenskyy called on Ukraine's regions, including Kherson, which was captured by Russian forces, not to repeat the experience of Donetsk and Luhansk. Pro-Russian separatists began fighting Ukrainian forces in those eastern regions in 2014.

08:23 AM (IST), Mar 13
Russia is trying to create new "pseudo-republics" in Ukraine to break his country apart, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address to the nation Saturday.

08:05 AM (IST), Mar 13
American tech giant Google will now be adding Air Strike alerts for its Ukrainian Android users amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine crisis.

07:41 AM (IST), Mar 13
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07:18 AM (IST), Mar 13
On Kyiv's eastern front, Ukrainians hold off Russian tanks

their shelling has so far stopped Moscow's tanks entering Kyiv from the east. And they hope that the enemy forces, which have struggled to take large cities, will eventually get bogged down. (AFP)

06:53 AM (IST), Mar 13
The seven women and children who Ukraine says died when Russian forces attacked a convoy escaping a village in the Kyiv region on Saturday were not as previously stated in an agreed evacuation corridor, the defence ministry said. (Reuters)

06:03 AM (IST), Mar 13
Ukraine says Russian forces kill seven civilians in evacuation convoy

Ukraine accused Russian forces on Saturday of killing seven civilians in an attack on women and children trying to flee fighting near Kyiv, and France said Russian President Vladimir Putin had shown he was not ready to make peace. With Russia's invasion in its third week, the Ukrainian intelligence service said the seven, including one child, were killed as they fled the village of Peremoha and that "the occupiers forced the remnants of the column to turn back." (Reuters)

Russian forces pounded the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol on Saturday, shelling its downtown as residents hid in an iconic mosque and elsewhere to avoid the explosions. Fighting also raged in the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv, as Russia kept up its bombardment of other cities throughout the country. (AP)