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Zelensky posts video, denies he has called for surrender

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has posted a self-shot video of himself on Twitter walking around the streets of Kyiv in an apparent effort to combat rumours that he has called on the army to surrender to Russian troops.

"There's a lot of fake information online that I call on our army to lay down arms, and that there's evacuation," he said against a backdrop of Kyiv's Gorodetsky House.

"I'm here. We won't lay down our arms. We will defend our state."

战争时的信息非常混乱，很多信息亦真亦假，也有很多是专门用来辅助作战的。

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Thousands of Russian people took to the streets in multiple cities across Russia in condemnation of the nation's attack on Ukraine in recent days.

Photos showed protestors in Moscow and St. Petersburg - two of Russia's largest cities - marching down the streets while holding up banners that said "No to war".

The protests were reported in cities as far as the snowy city of Novosibirsk, in the southern Russian region of Siberia.

However, demonstrators were met with heavy police presence, and more than 1,800 people were rounded up and arrested.

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Russia facing strong resistance, says UK defence ministry
Ukraine has been able to hold on to key cities despite repeated assaults from Russian military forces, says the UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD).

The statement said Russian forces were making gains from multiple fronts to try to encircle the capital city of Kyiv, but faced "strong resistance" from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Russian forces have also made an amphibious landing in an area between the cities of Mariupol and Melitopol, located in southern Ukraine, says the MoD.