Russia invades Ukraine 3/12/2022

 Ukraine Live Updates: the U.S. to Send More Arms as Putin Resists Cease-Fire

The Kremlin warned that convoys used to transfer weapons to Ukraine would be considered “legitimate targets.” Russian forces pressed into the suburbs of the capital.

Ukraine war: Protests after Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov is 'kidnapped' by Russian forces

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said the "abduction" of Ivan Fedorov in Melitopol in southeastern Ukraine was an attempt to bring the city "to its knees".

Any use of poison gases in Ukraine would violate a decades-old international treaty banning such weapons, and represent a dangerous turn in Russia’s two-week-old military offensive against its neighbor. Russia, which possessed vast stocks of chemical and biological weapons during the Cold War, has used outlawed nerve agents in at least two assassination attempts against political foes of President Vladimir Putin in the past three years, including at least once outside its borders, Western intelligence agencies concluded.

Cut off from food, Ukrainians recall Stalin's famine, which killed 4 million of them

Russia warns Western arms shipments to Ukraine are 'legitimate targets' in threat to NATO as Zelensky accuses Russia of shooting CHILDREN and says Putin will have to 'raze Kyiv to the ground' to take the city

Sergei Ryabkov warned the West that 'pumping weapons' into Ukraine could lead to an escalation of conflict 

Ex-deputy Secretary General of NATO Rose Gottemoeller is 'sceptical' of Russian success in a Kyiv battle

A huge column of tanks is slowly moving towards the capital after it was stalled for days on the outskirts

Fighting is continuing nearby with Putin's forces encircling the city in preparation for an expected assault 

During the worst of the starvation, when Petro Mostovyi was a child, he was afraid to venture to a nearby hamlet because all the residents there were dead. They were still in their houses and barns. But for weeks, no one had been able to bury them.

Houses filled with the dead were commonplace in Ukraine in 1932 and '33. Those who collected the corpses knew where to stop if they saw ravens nearby. And sometimes the emaciated living were carted away with the deceased.

Desperate, starving people, deprived of their livelihood by ruthless edicts of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, were forced to eat grass, tree bark, flowers, rats, dogs and, in the end, their children, historians have recorded.KYIV, Ukraine - The temperature was below freezing and the pharmacy line was way out the door. But Tetyana Dagadaeva could not be deterred.

For days, she and her 11-year-old son, Oleksiy, had been urgently searching for the insulin he needs to survive. With his supply at home dwindling, they soon would have no choice but to flee the country to keep him alive.