Russia-Ukraine crisis LIVE: Explosions rock Kyiv as Russian assault continues | One million refugees flee Ukraine
Boris Johnson will update MPs on his talks with allies in eastern Europe as the UK piled more pressure on Russia over its Ukraine invasion.
The Ukraine military says Russian paratroopers have landed in its second-largest city Kharkiv.
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It comes as US President Joe Biden used his first State of the Union address to announce US airspace was closed to Russian flights, adding his administration would be joining the UK and other allies in pursuing the Russian oligarchs and “corrupt leaders who built billions of dollars off (Vladimir Putin’s) violent regime”.
Scotland will send half a million items of medical supplies to Ukraine to help those “fighting a battle for democracy and freedom” against the Russian invasion, Nicola Sturgeon has said.
The First Minister visited an NHS Scotland distribution centre in North Lanarkshire on Wednesday to see the medical equipment being packed before it is flown to Ukraine.
Ms Sturgeon said the shipment will be an “initial consignment” of items requested by the Ukrainian Government from NHS Scotland’s reserve stockpile, and she pledged to continue providing the “maximum we possibly can” for the duration of the conflict.
Russian forces unleashed their attack on Ukraine last week on the orders of Vladimir Putin, who announced a “special military operation” at dawn.
There have been reports of significant shelling overnight in Chernihiv in the north of Ukraine overnight.
G7 leaders have condemned Russia’s “unprovoked and completely unjustified attack” on Ukraine as a “serious violation” of international law.
There have been called for the UK to do more to help with the refugee crisis in Ukraine.
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Russia-Ukraine crisis LIVE: Explosions rock Kyiv as Russian assault continues | One million refugees flee Ukraine
The shadow minister for immigration Stephen Kinnock has said that he is “mystified” about why the British Government is not publishing the names of the Russian people that “we are sanctioning and getting on with the job”.
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny suggested a list of Russians that should be sanctioned, but the names of everyone on the list is yet to be published in the UK.
Speaking to Sky News, Mr Kinnock said the list “includes people like (Roman) Abramovich, (Alisher) Usmanov. We’ve seen the European Union and the United States publishing those names.
“I am just mystified as to why the British Government is not publishing the names of the people that we are sanctioning and getting on with the job.
“It’s too slow and just looks like foot-dragging.
“The Government’s got to step up and show the leadership that we must show just to reflect the tremendous courage and leadership that the people are showing.”
Apple has stopped selling iPhones and other popular products in Russia in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
The company is one of the latest major corporations to boycott the country following the invasion ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin last week.
Fellow tech giants Google and Twitter have also cut down their business in Russia.
As well as halting product sales, Apple says its mobile app store is blocking downloads of RT News and Sputnik News from outside Russia.
The price of a barrel of oil soared again on Wednesday as the conflict in Ukraine raged on.
A barrel of Brent Crude hit 111.36 dollars, a new seven-year high, as hard-hitting sanctions on the Russian economy took hold.
Sanctions have so far excluded energy shipments of gas and oil from Russia – a country that is the world’s largest gas and second-largest oil exporter.
With large parts of Europe reliant on Russian gas, sanctions have avoided being placed on payments for energy and shipments can still flow through the continent.
A Ukrainian in Lviv tells Sky News homeless people in the city are going round the city “collecting bottle to help make Molotov cocktails”
She tells Sky News “We as a nation are powerful. Don’t F**k with us”
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said Russian forces would “ruthlessly pummel” cities.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today: “What you have seen is the Russian pause on the outskirts and then ruthlessly pummel these cities with artillery and then hope to break the city.”
But he said Russia would face “years of resistance” if it sought to occupy Ukraine.