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What Matters Most On Saturday, February 26, 2022

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Ukraine's biggest national flag flies in Kyiv, on February 26, 2022 (Genya Savilov/AFP)

As Russians assail Kyiv, Zelensky says Ukraine has ‘derailed their plan’

US defense official says Moscow’s troops increasingly frustrated by ‘very determined resistance’; Ukrainian president urges Russians to pressure Putin to stop invasion

The body of a serviceman is coated in snow next to a destroyed Russian military multiple rocket launcher vehicle on the outskirts of Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Ukraine says it repulses major attack on Kyiv base, downs 2 Russian transport planes

Ukrainian servicemen walk near fragments of a downed aircraft seen in in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 (AP Photo/Oleksandr Ratushniak)

US says Russian forces lose momentum in face of stiff Ukraine resistance

By AFP

Ukrainian service members look for unexploded shells after fighting with a Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of February 26, 2022, according to Ukrainian service personnel at the scene. (Sergei Supinsky/AFP)

Live updates (closed)

Ukraine warns of ‘environmental catastrophe’ after Russia blows up gas pipeline

By Luke Tress and ToI Staff

Ukrainian president tells civilians to take protective measures after Russian troops hit fuel infrastructure near Kharkiv, causing massive blast, during fierce battle for the city

3:18 am

Ukrainian rabbi says Zelensky asked him to 'pray for safety'
2:25 am

Russian forces blow up gas pipeline in Ukrainian city of Kharkiv
2:01 am

Ukrainian troops who told off Russian warship might still be alive

Op-Ed

A plea to the free world, US and Israel: Tell Putin that Zelensky must not be harmed

Ukraine’s president fears he is Russia’s ‘number one target’ and his wife and children are number two. Our pledged support for Ukraine must include demanding their safety

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, interviewed by The Times of Israel's David Horovitz in his office in Kyiv, on January 18, 2020 (Press service of the Office of the President of Ukraine)

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers his speech addressing the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 25, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US says Russia targeting Zelensky would be a ‘horrific’ act

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via a video link in Moscow on February 25, 2022. (Alexey NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Putin urges Ukraine’s army to stage coup against country’s ‘neo-Nazi’ leaders

By AFP

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky gestures while speaking to the media during a news conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, November 26, 2021. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Ukraine’s Zelensky asks Bennett to mediate with Russia, host talks in Jerusalem

Kyiv’s envoy to Israel confirms request to NY Times: ‘We do believe that Israel is the only democratic state in the world that has great relations with both Ukraine and Russia’

Ukrainian refugees wait to continue their journey after they crossed the border in Vysne Nemecke, eastern Slovakia, on February 26, 2022. (Peter Lazar/AFP)

Israeli diplomatic staff in Lviv to spends their nights in Poland

By Tal Schneider and ToI Staff

81 countries answered the US call and signed on

Despite US request Israel refrains from co-sponsoring UNSC resolution against Russia

Israeli mission declines request to comment on decision, which appears to be extension of effort by Jerusalem to avoid aligning too closely with either side of conflict

Representatives attend a UN Security Council meeting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine, on Friday, February 25, 2022, at UN headquarters. Russia vetoed a Security Council resolution demanding that Moscow stop its attack on Ukraine and withdraw all troops. Friday’s vote was 11-1, with China, India, and the United Arab Emirates abstaining. It showed significant but not total opposition to Russia’s invasion of its smaller, militarily weaker neighbor. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Security Council members, from left, Britain's Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward; US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield; Albania's UN Ambassador Ferit; Hoxha; and Brazil's Ambassador to the UN Ronaldo Costa Filho, vote in the the United Nations Security Council, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Russia vetoes UN Security Council resolution demanding it withdraw from Ukriane

By AFP

Ambassadors gather at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg on February 24, 2022, ahead of a debate on the situation in Ukraine after Russia launched an invasion. (Patrick Hertzog/AFP)

Russia ejected from rights body, loses sports hosting roles, ousted from Eurovision

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Russian Ambassador to Israel Anatoly Viktorov at the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, November 2019. (Raphael Ahren/Times of Israel)

Russian envoy to ToI: ‘We hope Israel will continue taking wise diplomatic approach’

While Israeli effort to avoid aligning too closely with either side has disappointed Kyiv, Moscow expresses satisfaction, though still summons Jerusalem’s envoy for clarification

Israel's Ambassador to Russia Alexander Ben Zvi. (Video screenshot)

Russia summons Israeli ambassador, said to ask: ‘Why are you backing Nazis?’

Vladimir Karavayev, 80, a former official of the Communist Party in Kyrgyzstan, speaks with an AFP journalist in the southern Russian Rostov region on February 25, 2022 (STRINGER / AFP)

Swamped by state media, Russians near Ukraine toe the line

By Andrea PALASCIANO

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky delivers his speech addressing the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Friday, February 25, 2022. Russian troops bore down on Ukraine's capital Friday, with explosions and gunfire sounding in the city as the invasion of a democratic country fueled fears of wider war in Europe and triggered new international efforts — including direct sanctions on President Vladimir Putin — to make Moscow stop. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Zelensky rejects US evacuation offer: I need ammunition, ‘not a ride’

By AP

‘The fight is here,’ Ukraine’s president tells US officials from secret whereabouts; street fighting against Russian forces underway in Kyiv, officials say

In this screenshot from a video posted Saturday morning, February 26, 2022, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Ukrainians will fight for their land, as Russian troops were said to be closing in on the capital, Kyiv. (Screenshot/Twitter)

‘We will defend our land,’ Zelensky vows from central Kyiv

By ToI Staff and Agencies

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky posts a video of himself and his team outside the presidential headquarters in Kyiv on February 25, 2022. (Screen capture/Twitter)

‘We are all here,’ Ukraine’s Zelensky says in video from Russian-bombed capital Kyiv

By AFP

A view of a high-rise apartment block, which was hit by recent shelling in Kyiv, on February 26, 2022. (Genya Savilov/AFP)

Kyiv residential apartment block hit in Russian shelling

By Agencies and ToI Staff

Ukrainian soldiers take positions in downtown Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022. Russia pressed its invasion of Ukraine to the outskirts of the capital Friday after unleashing airstrikes on cities and military bases and sending in troops and tanks from three sides in an attack that could rewrite the global post-Cold War security order. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Zelenzky warns that Russia plans to ‘storm’ Kyiv tonight and ‘crush our defenses’

By Dave Clark and Dmytro Gorshkov

A woman with two children and carrying bags walk on a street to leave Ukraine after crossing the Slovak-Ukrainian border in Ubla, eastern Slovakia, close to the Ukrainian city of Welykyj Beresnyj, on February 25, 2022 (PETER LAZAR / AFP)

More than 50,000 Ukrainians have fled country in 48 hours, UN says

Bombs over my hometown

When you take your kids to soccer practice this weekend, remember that Ukrainian kids played soccer last weekend. Don’t look away – that’s how the dictator wins

Putin’s act of war: How we got here and what to do

The West must protest to boycott Russia, to block Russian disrupting our political systems, and to shout that what started in Ukraine won’t end in Ukraine

Demonstrators carry placards and flags during a protest outside the Russian Embassy in Tel Aviv, Feb. 24, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

For some Russian-speaking Israelis, Putin is a hero; others would ‘kill the bastard’

By Cnaan Liphshiz

‘I’d carve a Swastika into his forehead,’ one Ukrainian immigrant says of Russian leader, as expats display gamut of emotions on invasion

Inside story

Michael Biesecker, Joshua Goodman, Sarah El Deeb and Richard Lardner

Ignoring the richest of Russia’s rich: Biden’s sanctions exclude Putin’s oligarchs

An estimated $800 billion is held overseas by wealthy Russians, some of it invested in everything from Facebook (Alisher Usmanov) to English soccer teams (Roman Abramovich)

Russian President Vladimir Putin, center, listens to Lebedinsky GOK Managing Director Oleg Mikhailov, left, as businessman and founder of USM Holdings, Alisher Usmanov, right, and Minister of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov stand behind him while visiting the Lebedinsky GOK JSC, in Gubkin, Belgorod Region, Russia, Friday, July 14, 2017. Usmanov is not on the sanctions list implemented in response to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. The metals tycoon was an early investor in Facebook. His fortune is estimated at more than $14 billion. (Mikhail Klimentyev/Sputnik/Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a meeting with top envoys from the separatist regions in eastern Ukraine, Vladislav Deinego of the Luhansk People's Republic and Sergei Peresada, of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), in Moscow, Russia, Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

US, Europe agree to freeze Putin’s assets as Moscow derides West’s ‘impotence’

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the Presidential Council for Development of Civil Society and Human Rights via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 9, 2021. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel / SPUTNIK / AFP)

Germany says EU will ‘severely’ sanction Putin and Russian FM Lavrov

By AFP

Two Orthodox Jews are seen arriving at the Medyka pedestrian border crossing in eastern Poland, fleeing the conflict in their country, one day after Russia launched a military attack on its neighbor Ukraine, February 25, 2022. (Wojtek Radwanski/AFP)

Prayer and panic as Ukrainian rabbis guide their communities into a wartime Shabbat

By Cnaan Liphshiz

While some communities evacuated, traveling on the Sabbath in a bid to find safety and save lives, others urged members to remain positive even amid frightening conditions

FILE - Pope Francis meets Russian President Vladimir Putin on the occasion of their private audience at the Vatican on June 10, 2015. Pope Francis went to the Russian Embassy on Friday, Feb. 25, 2022 to personally “express his concern about the war,” the Vatican said, in an extraordinary, hands-on papal gesture that has no recent precedent. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, Pool)

In unprecedented move, Pope makes personal appeal in remarkable Russia embassy visit

By Nicole Winfield

Pontiff breaks protocol to deliver his message of concern to Russia, later assures top Ukrainian Greek Catholic leader he will do ‘everything I can’ to help.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the nation in Kyiv, Ukraine, on February 24, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Profile

In 4 years, Zelensky went from Jewish comic to Putin’s enemy #1, democracy defender

By Gabe Friedman

Ukrainian president finds himself at center of Europe’s most significant conflict since World War II

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson poses for a portrait, Friday, Feb. 18, 2022, in her office at the court in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden taps Ketanji Brown Jackson for Supreme Court; will be first Black woman in job

By Frankie TAGGART

Biden says Jackson, who will replace liberal Justice Stephen Breyer, ‘is one of our nation’s brightest legal minds and will be an exceptional Justice’

Mohammad Eslami, head of Iran's nuclear agency (left), and Iran's Governor to the International Atomic Energy Agency, Kazem Gharib Abadi, leave the International Atomic Energy's General Conference in Vienna, Austria, on Monday, September 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Lisa Leutner, File)

Iran says it will enrich uranium to 20% even if nuke deal revived, sanctions lifted

By ToI Staff and AFP

Assertion by Tehran’s nuclear chief contradicts reported draft terms of accord being negotiated in Vienna, which are said to restrict enrichment to 5%

Huwaida Arraf (right) poses with her husband, Adam Shapiro (left), and their two children. (Courtesy)

Palestinian activist Huwaida Arraf wants a seat in US Congress for Michigan

Christian former resistance organizer has alarmed Detroit-area Jewish and pro-Israel groups with her plans to enter a crowded Democratic field ahead in the August 2022 primary

After outcry, Duke University student government recognizes campus Zionist group

By Andrew Lapin

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