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Ukraine’s President says Russia has missile attacks on Ukraine.

Loud explosions heard in Kiev and a residential building’s been hit.

Vladmir Zelenski said his forces have to halt the advance of Russian ground troops.

The EU has announced sanctions on Russia targeting it’s financial, energy and transport .

They include an export ban on materials Russia needs to upgrade its oil refineries and .

It follows similar taken by Western governments.

The UN says a hundred Ukrainians have now left their homes

as Ukraine’s neighbours prepare for an of migrants,

but men aged between and sixty have been told they can’t leave the country.

On the streets of Russia protests in more than cities

have been met with a police .

Almost two thousand people have been arrested, hundreds have marched in places Moscow and St. Petersburg.