NEW LIFE: Anna and Ihor comfort their daughter, Zoryana, who was born yesterday in the bomb shelter in the maternity hospital close to Kyiv in Ukraine. An estimated half of greater Kyiv’s 3.5 million people have fled since the start of Russia's invasion, the capital’s mayor said earlier this month. Photograph: Anastasia Vlasova/Getty
Ukrainian Railways employs more than 230,000 people, and almost all its employees have stayed in the country to work, making long, dangerous journeys every day to get people to safety.
Gardeners sow seeds into the moat surrounding the Tower of London, that will bloom into a ‘Superblom’ display celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee later this year in London, March 30. Reuters/Henry Nicholls.
Russian troops began leaving the Chernobyl nuclear plant after soldiers got "significant doses" of radiation from digging trenches at the highly contaminated site. The troops "panicked at the first sign of illness," which "showed up very quickly," and began preparing to leave.
Yesterday President Putin threatened to halt contracts supplying Europe with a third of its gas unless they are paid in Russian currency. “They must open rouble accounts in Russian banks. It is from these accounts that payments will be made for gas delivered starting from tomorrow,” he said
The Kremlin is threatening to block Wikipedia from users in Russia because of an entry about the invasion of Ukraine that includes facts and figures detailing Russian military casualties as well as the number of dead Ukrainian civilians.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has his highest approval rating among Russians since September 2017, according to a poll released Wednesday by the independent Moscow-based Levada Center, indicating the popularity back home for the Russian leader soared while he was widely criticized abroad for launching a brutal war on Ukraine.
Australia to send Bushmaster armored vehicles after Zelensky's appeal. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on March 31 that Ukraine would receive military and humanitarian aid after President Zelensky addressed Australia’s parliament requesting military assistance.
Amazon Labor Union leader Christian Smalls celebrates the landmark win
A team of Amazon workers has forced the technology giant to recognise a trade union in the US for the first time as 55% voted in favour of joining the Amazon Labor Union.
Russia praises India for not judging war in "one-sided way".
India has not joined the condemnation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and is a major buyer of Russian arms.
Trostyanets, Ukraine
Cars marked with the initial ‘Z’ used by the Russian forces are seen destroyed on a road on the outskirts of the city.
Photograph: Chris McGrath/Getty Images
Irpin, Ukraine
Ukrainian soldiers and foreign fighters wait before advancing in the streets during an operation to clear Russian forces from
Irpin.
Photograph: Daniel Berehulak/New York Times/Redux/eyevin
Mariya Ol'hovs'ka, 33, mourns the death of her father Valerii Ol'hovs'kyi, 72, killed by a Russian missile on March 30 near his house, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.
UKRAINE: Serviceman lead Valentyn Vasylenko (83) from his damaged home at the Teteriv village not far from Kyiv. He was the last inhabitant to leave the village. Photograph: EPA
Among 86 Ukrainian captives, released yesterday in exchange for RU soldiers, there were 15 women. Russians shaved their heads to humiliate them. Instead, it's a badge of honour.
A man walks with bags of food on Saturday in Bucha, north-west of Kyiv, where the town’s mayor said 280 people had been buried in a mass grave and that the streets were littered with corpses. Photograph: Ronaldo Schemidt/AFP/Getty Images
Florida, US
The sun rises above the Florida Keys Overseas Highway as a field of 1,500 runners compete in the Seven Mile Bridge Run near Marathon. Holly Smith of Marathon, won the women’s division while Collin Wainwright of Springfield Pennsylvania captured the overall men’s division. Photograph: Andy Newman/Florida Keys News /AFP/Getty Images
The duke is engulfed in a scandal involving another ‘unsavoury friend’.
Less than a month after paying millions of pounds to Virginia Giuffre to settle a US lawsuit over allegations of sexual assault, Prince Andrew appeared once more to be the frail monarch’s favoured son at a thanksgiving service for the life of the Duke of Edinburgh. Source: The Times, UK
Pro-Russian troops in uniforms without insignia on a tank bearing the letter ‘Z’ in the separatist-controlled Donetsk region, Ukraine, 1 March 2022. Photograph: Alexander Ermochenko/Reuters
