Air raid sirens blared across most cities in Ukraine on Saturday morning urging people to seek shelter, local media reported, after President Volodymyr Zelensky said the war had reached a “strategic turning point”.
Ukraine forces are reportedly putting up strong resistance to invading Russian forces as they surround and bomb the capital Kyiv on Sunday.
Canada, the United States, Britain and the European Union on Friday said they could act to exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a further round of sanctions aimed at halting Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
