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Ukraine morning briefing: Three months of war and no end in sight
Plus: Russian forces accused of killing Ukrainians 'during evacuation', and Zelensky says Moscow's soldiers 'are trying to destroy all life'
Russia's three-month long invasion, the biggest attack on a European state since 1945, has seen more than 6.5million people flee abroad and turned entire cities into rubble.
Families who fled the Donetsk region have shared their suffering. Rayisa Rybalko hid with her family in their basement and then in a bomb shelter at a school before fleeing their village.
"We haven't been able to see the sun for three months. We are almost blind because we were in darkness for three months," she said. "The world should have seen that."
Here's what happened overnight – and you can follow the latest updates in our live blog.
1. Zelensky: Russians 'are trying to destroy all life'
On the eve of the anniversary of the start of the war on February 24, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky said four missiles killed 87 people last week in the town of Desna, 55km (34 miles) north of Kyiv. The deaths were tallied after debris was cleared, he said.
The Russians have now concentrated their forces on Donbas cities and "are trying to destroy all life", Mr Zelensky said in his nightly address to the nation.
Russian forces have increased their bombardment of the Donbas region, the eastern industrial heartland of coal mines and factories that Russia is bent on capturing.
Donetsk's regional governor, Pavlo Kyrylenko, said three civilians died in Russian attacks there on Monday and heavy fighting continued near the Luhansk region. The Donbas consists of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.
He said the Russians were decimating cities in their attempt to take them over. Only about 320,000 people out of the region's pre-war population of 1.6 million remain, and Russian forces are targeting evacuation efforts, he said.
"They are killing us. They are killing the locals during evacuation," Mr Kyrylenko said.
2. Defence leaders to give Ukraine more advanced weapons
Nearly 50 defence leaders from around the world met on Monday and agreed to send more advanced weapons to Ukraine, including a Harpoon launcher and missiles to protect its coast, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin said.
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said that "low-level" discussion is underway on how the US may need to adjust its training of Ukrainian forces and on whether some American troops should be based in Ukraine.
The US withdrew its few troops in Ukraine before the war and has no plans to send in combat forces. Gen Milley's comments left open the possibility troops could return for embassy security or another non-combat role.
Secretary Austin said some 20 nations announced on Monday that they would send new packages of security assistance.
In particular, he said Denmark had agreed to send a Harpoon launcher and missiles to Ukraine to help defend the coast.
Secretary Austin added that the Czech Republic recently donated attack helicopters, tanks and rockets, and that Italy, Greece, Norway and Poland announced new donations on Monday of artillery systems and ammunition.
3. Putin unleashes global food catastrophe
Hundreds of millions of people are "marching to starvation" after Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine unleashed the worst humanitarian crisis since the Second World War, the head of the UN’s World Food Programme has warned.
David Beasley condemned Russia for “a declaration of war on global food security” after it blocked Ukrainian grain exports, and said that 325 million people are at risk of going hungry as a result. Around 43 million most in danger are already "knocking on starvation's door", he said.
Speaking to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mr Beasley described the impending disaster as “the worst humanitarian crisis since World War Two”, with a massive wave of migration into Europe likely to follow as hunger rises.
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4. Kremlin to focus on developing ties with China
Moscow has said it sees its economic ties growing with China after being isolated by the West over its invasion of Ukraine.
In a further symbolic indication of Russia's isolation, American coffee chain Starbucks became the latest Western brand to say it was pulling out of the country on Monday.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the Kremlin would focus on developing ties with China as economic links with the United States and Europe were cut.
"If they (the West) want to offer something in terms of resuming relations, then we will seriously consider whether we will need it or not," he said in a speech, according to a transcript on the foreign ministry's website.
"Now that the West has taken a 'dictator's position', our economic ties with China will grow even faster."
5. Three months later – the war's effect on Russians
When Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, war seemed far away from Russian territory. Yet within days the conflict came home – not with cruise missiles and mortars but in the form of unprecedented and unexpectedly extensive volleys of sanctions by Western governments and economic punishment by corporations.
Three months after the February 24 invasion, many ordinary Russians are reeling from those blows to their livelihoods and emotions. Moscow's vast shopping malls have turned into eerie expanses of shuttered storefronts once occupied by Western retailers.
As the multinationals started leaving, thousands of Russians who had the economic means to do so were also fleeing, frightened by harsh new government moves connected to the war that they saw as a plunge into full totalitarianism. Some young men may have also fled in fear that the Kremlin would impose a mandatory draft to feed its war machine.
The psychological cost of the repressions, restrictions and shrinking opportunities could be high on ordinary Russians, although difficult to measure. Some public opinion polls in Russia suggest support for the Ukraine war is strong, but the results are likely skewed by respondents who stay silent, wary of expressing their genuine views.