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50,000 Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia’s war have arrived in UK.

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According to U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, they are doing “everything possible” to help Ukrainians “build lives here.” According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, a total of over 6 million people left Ukraine since Feb. 24, with nearly 3.5 million have been registered in Poland, followed by nearly 1 million people settling in Romania.

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Pokrovsk, a city that held back some of Russia’s fiercest assaults for over a year, is now on the verge of falling. The Kyiv Independent’s Francis Farrell explains how the battle reached this point and what Pokrovsk’s fall could mean for the wider defense of Donetsk Oblast.

"We do not accept this obviously unlawful solution contrary to European values," Orban said on a weekly radio show. "We are turning to the European Court of Justice."

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