Ten Things You Need to Know Today: 2 March 2022

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1. Kharkiv attacks are ‘war crimes’

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Vladimir Putin of war crimes after Russia launched an air strike on Kharkiv in an attempt to capture the besieged city. At least ten people were killed and 35 injured, with Ukraine’s military claiming that Russian troops parachuted into the city. Russia’s 40-mile military convoy is nearing Kyiv, “raising fears Moscow may pulverise civilian areas” in its attempt to seize the capital, said The Guardian. Rockets struck a maternity clinic, a Holocaust memorial site and a broadcasting tower in Kyiv yesterday, with the Russian military warning it was engaged in “high-precision” strikes.

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