Ukraine war: Five latest developments you need to know
1. Ukraine denounces 'absolute terrorism' of Russian strikes on civilian targets
At least three people have been killed and scores more wounded - including children - after Russian forces launched a new wave of attacks on Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv.
The regional governor called the strikes - on a school, a residential building and a warehouse facvility - "absolute terrorism."
“All (three were launched) exclusively on civilian objects, this is absolute terrorism!” said Oleh Syniehubov.
Hours after this first attack, shelling which officials said came from multiple rocket launchers, hit more civilian targets.
“Only civilian structures, a shopping centre and houses of peaceful Kharkiv residents, came under the fire of the Russians. Several shells hit the yards of private houses. Garages and cars were also destroyed, several fires broke out,” Syniehubov wrote online.
The new strikes came just two days after a Russian rocket attack hit apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine, killing at least 24 people. A total of nine people have been rescued, emergency officials said.
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2. Put expands 'fast track' Russian citizenship for all Ukrainians
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday expanding a fast track to Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians.
Until recently, only residents of Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as residents of the southern Zaporizhzhia and the Kherson regions, large parts of which are under Russian control, were eligible for the simplified procedure.
Between 2019, when the procedure was first introduced for the residents of Donetsk and Luhansk, and this year more than 720,000 residents of the rebel-held areas in the two regions – about 18% of
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