▶Latest >Russia has asked China for military help and aid, US officials say, Russia denies it. >Ukraine says 140,000 civilians have been evacuated from some front line locations >30 Russian missiles were fired at a military training base, near the border Poland, killing foreign volunteers >"Russia diluting international deployments in Armenia & Nagorno-Karabakh to reinforce operations in Ukraine, pulling additional forces from far east" - ISW >Putin reportedly fired several generals & arrested FSB officers in internal purge >Ukrainian forces kill the commander of Russia’s 29th Combined Arms Army, the third general killed so far >Putin orders Instagram to be blocked in Russia, 80m Russians use Instagram >Kremlin approves plan to send 16,000 arab "volunteers" to fight in Ukraine >US warns Russia could be planning a chemical or biological attack >Maternity hospital in Mariupol badly damaged in Russian airstrike, 3 dead, 1 a child >Russia accuses US of conducting bio-warfare research in Ukrainian labs, US denies it. >Major General Vitaliy Gerasimov, of Russia’s 41st Combined Arms Army, eliminated by Ukraine's military intelligence operators >Kherson & Melitopol only major cities under Russian control, large protests in both cities
