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Author: Ireland Hendry-Tennent & Molly Swift

The UK Foreign Secretary says Russia may have used a "chemical agent" in an attack on Ukraine, further escalating the conflict.

Liz Truss revealed the UK Government is investigating the claims on Tuesday.

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Ukraine said on Monday it expected Russia to launch a huge new offensive soon, as Moscow shifts its focus to seizing territory in the east after its invasion force was driven from the gates of Kyiv this month.

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A New Zealand aid worker in Kyiv says the ReliefAid group he leads was one of the first to provide food in the suburb of Bucha - northwest of Kyiv - where Russian troops executed 150 civilians.

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Author: Associated Press

Ukrainian forces dug in while Russia lined up more firepower on Monday and tapped a decorated general as war commander ahead of a potentially decisive showdown in eastern Ukraine that experts said could start within days with a full-scale offensive.

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Author: James Kilner

Russia has suffered such heavy losses in Ukraine it is now calling up soldiers who have been retired for up to a decade, according to Western intelligence.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is committed to pressing for peace despite Russian attacks on civilians that have stunned the world, and he renewed his plea for countries to send more weapons ahead of an expected surge in fighting in the country's east.

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The UK's defence ministry said that Russian forces were targeting civilians, a day after a missile attack on a train station crowded with women, children and the elderly killed at least 52 people, according to Ukrainian officials.

Russia was focusing its offensive, which included cruise missiles launched by its naval forces, on the eastern Donbas region, the British ministry said in a daily briefing.

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Radio messages proving Russian forces have deliberately murdered civilians in the Ukrainian town of Bucha have been reportedly intercepted by German intelligence.

The intercepted messages claim to hear Russian soldiers openly discussing shooting civilians making it seem as though the atrocities perpetrated on civilians in Bucha were not random acts but rather a planned attack.

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