News photos of the day

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Valeri Karpin is the manager of the Russia national team

FIFA has told Russia to complete their upcoming games in neutral territory under the name the Football Union of Russia without their flag and anthem following the invasion of Ukraine.
 

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Andrey Klimov , head of the Federation Council Commission for the Protection of Russian Sovereignty , said that people who are planning on transporting weapons from the West, once they cross the border, will become targets.
 
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The ruble is now worth less than one US cent after SWIFT bank sanctions cut Russia off from the global banking system. The decline of the ruble will ultimately hurt the Russian people, not just the elites who were the initial targets.
 

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Rogers Place arena sitting empty after the cancellation of the IIHF World Junior Hockey Championship in Edmonton. (Jason Franson/CP)

The International Ice Hockey Federation has suspended Russia and Belarus from every age category in international play until further notice.
 
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The French Finance Minister, Bruno Le Maire has warned “we will bring about the collapse of the Russian economy.” He is drawing up a list of oligarch-owned assets in France, including yachts, property and bank accounts, for seizure.
 
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RIFLE CONVOY: Members of a Ukrainian civil defense unit pass assault rifles to the opposite side of a blown-up bridge on Kyiv's northern front. Satellite photos show a Russian convoy stretching for dozens of kilometres which is advancing slowly toward the Ukrainian capital. Photograph: Aris Messinis/AFP/Getty
 
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WALKOUT: Diplomats walk out in a protest against Russia's invasion of Ukraine while a pre-recorded video message by Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov (on screen) is played at the 49th session of the UN Human Rights Council at the European HQ of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland. Photograph: Salvatore Di Nolfi/EPA
 
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A wounded 6 year old girl arrives at a hospital in Mariupol, Ukraine on Sunday. After a desperate effort by doctors to save her, she passed away. One of the doctors looked into the camera of an Associated Press video-journalist in the room and said “Show this to Putin”.
 
A Russian professor, Valery Solovey, has claimed Vladimir Putin has hidden his family members in an underground bunker to protect them from the unfolding conflict. “In fact, it is not a bunker, but a whole underground city, equipped with the latest science and technology.”

He warned: “I hope this means something to you?
 
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The BBC is resorting to broadcasting news bulletins over shortwave radio in Russia after the country blocked access to BBC websites. They announced it was bringing back the WWII-era broadcasting technology in the region just hours before its sites were banned. News of the ban was also reported by Russian state news agency RIA.
 
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A man gestures in front of an evacuation rain at Kyiv central train station in Ukraine.

This reminds me of the children being evacuated from London during the Blitz.
 
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Volunteers hold a basket with handmade Molotov cocktails during a self-defence civilian course on the outskirts of Lviv, western Ukraine.

The resolve of these people is amazing. Much respect to them all.
 
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Destroyed Russian armored vehicles litter the street in the city of Bucha, west of Kyiv, Ukraine

If Putin sees this photo, he will go berserk.
 
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Kraków, Poland
Refugees from Ukraine rest at a temporary shelter in the city’s main train station. The number of people fleeing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has exceeded 1.5 million, making it Europe’s fastest growing refugee crisis since the second world war, according to the United Nations
Photograph: Louisa Gouliamaki/AFP/Getty Images
 
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A lone bison feeds on sun-cured grasses next to a cluster of hot springs and fumaroles above Yellowstone Lake, the largest lake in North America above 7,000 feet. Photo Steven Fuller
 
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Kyiv mayor and former Ukrainian heavyweight boxing world champion Wladimir Klitschko, congratulates newly married members of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces Lesia Ivashchenko and Valerii Fylvmonov after a wedding ceremony at a checkpoint in Kyiv.
 

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