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Ukrainians get off a bus in the Polish town of Korczowa, next to the border between Poland and Ukraine, as they flee the Russian invasion of their country. UNHCR figures show that 454,000 people have fled from Ukraine to Poland. IMAGES
With nowhere to go, the residents that left behind, are trying to survive without gas, water, and with severe food shortages. On top of that temperatures are below freezing in the cold of winter.
Sweden joining NATO shows Russian President Vladimir Putin "failed" in his Ukrainian war strategy of weakening the alliance, its chief Jens Stoltenberg says. The Kremlin's invasion not only prompted formerly non-aligned nations Sweden and Finland to come under NATO's defence umbrella, but now "Ukraine is closer to NATO membership than ever before," Stoltenberg adds. SOUNDBITE
US President Joe Biden says during his State of the Union address that Ukraine is capable of stopping Putin if the US provides Kyiv the "weapons it needs to defend itself." SOUNDBITE
NATO forces cross the Vistula River at Korzeniewo in Poland as part of the US-led defence alliance's Exercise Dragon 24, involving around 4,500 soldiers and almost 1,000 vehicles. Dragon 24 is itself part of Exercise Steadfast Defender 24, NATO's largest military exercise since the Cold War, which is designed to test its defences in the face of Russia's war on Ukraine. IMAGES
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky leaves his hotel in Tirana, Albania, where he arrived late Tuesday, to meet with leaders from southeast Europe, seeking to keep support and weapons flowing to Kyiv as Russia makes gains on the battlefield two years after invading its neighbour. IMAGES