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Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the President of Ukraine, called on the Swiss government in a live broadcast to block the accounts of all Russian oligarchs
Photo: Peter Klaunzer / dpa
On the 24th day of the war, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyj called on Switzerland to step up efforts against Russian oligarchs.
"It's also a fight against evil when their accounts are frozen," he said.
You can find out more about this and the latest developments in the continuously updated news on the war in Eastern Europe.
Selenskyj had previously called for peace talks, the British Foreign Secretary was skeptical and spoke of a diversionary maneuver.
The humanitarian situation in the contested areas is steadily deteriorating.
Read here what happened in the first half of the day.
The series of pictures from the third week of the war shows the immeasurable suffering that is currently prevailing in Ukraine: a son is crying next to his mother's corpse, premature babies are left alone in the hospital, cities lie in ruins.
Meanwhile, Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is comparing the Ukrainians' struggle for freedom with Brexit at home.
British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss was also drawn into questionable comparisons.
Here is the message.
After Saturday's major nationalist event at Moscow's Olympic Stadium, the question is whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has the Russian people on his side, as the Kremlin has led them to believe.
Ann-Dorit Boy provides an answer.
Meanwhile, something curious happened on the international space station: Russian astronauts entered the ISS in yellow and blue space suits.
Yellow and blue are the national colors of Ukraine.
Statement of solidarity or coincidence?
On Earth, meanwhile, Russian troops advance further to Mariupol: street fighting prevents the search for survivors.
Satellite images show the destruction at the city's theater.
»Children and old people are dying.
The city is devastated and swallowed up by the face of the earth," Mikhail Vershnin, a Mariupol police officer, said in a video, according to the Associated Press news agency.
The author Yevgenia Belorusets provides further impressions from the Ukrainian capital Kyiv.
In her »Diary from Kyiv« she describes »The crime that is taking place before my eyes«.
She describes everyday life in the embattled capital for SPIEGEL.
Large numbers of those who have fled because of the war come to Germany, among other places.
Europe is currently experiencing the largest refugee movement since the Second World War.
While the willingness to help is great in this country, there are also challenges to be faced.
Because an estimated 10,000 Ukrainian refugees arrive in Berlin every day, most of them at the main train station, where volunteers provide them with warm food, drinks and hygiene items and they get tickets for the onward journey.
The capital has become the main destination for those fleeing the war.
Here you can read more about it.
Around 200,000 people from Ukraine have reached Germany so far.
Many will need a long-term perspective - and must be integrated.
Even the distribution of the arrivals is difficult.
Watch the video to learn more about it.
Another humanitarian tragedy of the war in Ukraine is surrogacy.
Before the war, Ukraine was considered the global center for this.
Now 18 babies are lying in a shelter at Ukraine's largest surrogacy clinic in a Kyiv suburb because their foreign parents can't pick them up.
And new ones are added almost every day.
Nicola Abé spoke to Maria Holumbovska.
The war in Ukraine also means that local farmers can no longer cultivate their fields - Ukraine's agriculture is lying idle.
At the beginning of the war, Ukrainian farmers who towed away Russian tanks were cheered.
Many tractors are now standing still.
The crop failures will have global consequences.
Watch the video about the war in the granary here.
In Germany, activists from »Fridays for Future«, »Extinction Rebellion« and »Last Generation« complain about the »destruction caused by the fossil system« caused by the war in Ukraine.
Will the climate crisis be forgotten because of the war?
Juliane Löffler reports on how the movements are repositioning themselves and using their funds to protest against Putin.
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