Russia Ukraine conflict: Kyiv takes up arms

Kyiv is now a capital under siege - Russian forces are already near the outskirts - while explosions and gunfire have been reported across the city - citizens have been told to make molotov cocktails.

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They have been given thousands of automatic weapons to resist the Russian advance.

Elsewhere there's been heavy fighting around the country's second city of Kharkiv - and Russia says it has seized control of a strategic airport - while President Zelenskiy made another impassioned appeal "when missiles kill our people", he declared "they kill all Europeans".

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