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March 5, 2022

Senator Rubio shares image of Zelensky during Zoom call, faces backlash — 10:24 p.m.

By Lauren Booker, Globe Staff

A presentation that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did with US lawmakers on Saturday was the site of missteps by some members of Congress.

During the meeting, Senator Marco Rubio, a Republican representing Florida, shared an image of Zelensky on the Zoom call. The posting of his image was met with swift backlash and questions about if Zelensky’s safety and location had been compromised.

Zelensky also reportedly asked US Senator Rick Scott, a Republican representing Florida, to mute himself on the call.

Photos: Day 10, Russian shelling batters encircled towns — 9:29 p.m.

By The Associated Press

In war-torn areas of Ukraine, residents fled on footpaths and grief-stricken parents mourned dead children as Russian troops continued to shell encircled cities.

A promised cease-fire in the port city of Mariupol collapsed Saturday amid scenes of terror in the besieged town, while in the outskirts of Kyiv, a stream of residents with pets and children crossed the Irpin River on an improvised path under a bridge destroyed by a Russian airstrike.

 

 

China tells US don’t fuel flames in Ukraine — 8:55 p.m.

By The Associated Press

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi told U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken that China opposes any moves that “add fuel to the flames” in Ukraine.

Blinken says the world is watching to see which nations stand up for the principles of freedom and sovereignty.

The two spoke by phone on Saturday, the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.

Wang called for negotiations to resolve the immediate crisis, as well as talks on creating a balanced European security mechanism. Wang says the U.S. and Europe should pay attention to the negative impact of NATO’s eastward expansion on Russia’s security.

The U.S. State Department says Blinken underscored that the world is acting in unison in response to Russian aggression and ensuring that Moscow will pay a high price.

China has broken with the U.S., Europe and others that have imposed sanctions on Russia after its invasion of Ukraine. China says that the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all nations should be respected, but that sanctions create new issues and disrupt the process of political settlement.

Biden, Zelensky discuss aid and security — 8:16 p.m.

By The Associated Press

U.S. President Joe Biden has called Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ongoing efforts to impose economic costs on Russia and to speed U.S. military, humanitarian and economic assistance to Ukraine.

The White House said the pair also discussed talks between Russia and Ukraine during the more than 30-minute call early Sunday in Ukraine, but offered no additional details.

Zelenskyy said on Twitter the two presidents discussed security, financial support for Ukraine and the continuation of sanctions against Russia.

Putin’s attack on memory at Babyn Yar — 7:18 p.m.

By Jeremy Eichler, Globe Staff

A Russian attack in Kyiv Tuesday by the site of the Babyn Yar massacre — where over the course of two days in September 1941, Nazi forces murdered more than 33,000 Kyiv Jews — was just one of many wrenching reports out of Ukraine last week.

But the missile strike, which killed five people and damaged Kyiv’s iconic TV tower as well as a building that was slated for use as a Holocaust museum, underscored more than the tragic consequences of this Russian war of aggression. It serves as a reminder that older Soviet dreams of empire — the same dreams now being revived by Vladimir Putin — have always been shadowed by a devastating war on memory itself.

In the case of Babyn Yar, this was not Moscow’s first attack. In fact, when Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, who is Jewish, was informed of the strike during an interview, his reaction was caught on video: “That is Russia.”

Those three words summon an entire history.

Ukraine reasserts that 10,000 Russians killed (msn.com)