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Here's what you need to know about the Ukraine crisis right now:
* At least 198 Ukrainians, including three children, have been killed in Russia's invasion, the head of the Ukrainian Health Ministry was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying. * A Ukrainian road-maintenance company said it was removing all road signs to hinder invading Russian forces:"Let us help them get straight to hell."
* YouTube on Saturday barred Russian state-owned media outlet RT and other Russian channels from receiving money for advertisements that run with their videos, similar to a move by Facebook, after the invasion of Ukraine.
- Russian troops captured the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol, Russia's defence ministry said. But British armed forces minister James Heappey said Britain did not believe Russian forces had captured Melitopol. - Twitter is being restricted for some users in Russia, the social media company said in a tweet on Saturday.
- Russia vetoed a draft UN Security Council resolution on Friday that would have deplored Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, while China abstained from the vote.* China is in a diplomatic scramble to limit blowback while standing by a partner with which it has grown increasingly close in opposition to the West.UPDATE | The official website of the Kremlin, the office of Russian President Vladimir Putin, kremlin.
Russia-themed leaks and hacks attributed to the group have begun to percolate across the web — although as is often the case with Anonymous and with other hacker collectives the authenticity of the claims remain difficult to establish.YouTube on Saturday suspended multiple Russian channels, including state-funded media outlet RT, from generating revenue on the video service, following a similar move by Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc.
A French presidential official said earlier on Saturday that European Union members were close to agreeing to exclude Russia from the SWIFT international payment system. "We will fight as long as it takes to liberate the country," Zelenskiy said in the short video, adding his country was currently lacking oil and oil products.The European Union is in talks over a third package of sanctions on Russia, an EU diplomat told Reuters on Saturday.
On Friday, one day after Russia invaded Ukraine, Moscow said it was partially limiting access to Meta Platforms Inc's Facebook, accusing it of"censoring" Russian media. It was not immediately clear what Russia's restrictions on Facebook would involve.
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