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CNN's Arlette Saenz reports on the latest in Ukraine as video shows a Russian fighter jet the Ukrainian government says they shot down.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US lawmakers Saturday that his country urgently needs more assistance from the US, including the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukraine, as it fights against Russia's invasion.

Ukrainian authorities halted evacuations from the besieged city of Mariupol on Saturday, accusing Russian forces of breaching an agreement to pause fire and give civilians safe passage out.

A volley of machine-gun fire erupted just as Andriy Abba's family raised a toast to celebrate his 30th birthday in Kherson. Wine glass in hand, he rushed with his parents and younger brother to the basement.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has taken hundreds of lives on the battlefield and in the Ukrainian cities under bombardment. But internationally, it's also affecting everything from food security in Cairo to gas prices in California. It's pushed to the fore major geopolitical shifts and changed the way some of the globe's most prominent institutions work.

Three key US allies in the Middle East joined the United Nations General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine this week, but their votes belied the tension that lies beneath the surface.

CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from Kyiv where many people are trying to evacuate as Russian forces close in on the capital city.

ITN reporter John Irvine was on the last convoys out of Mariupol, a key city in the southern region of Ukraine, as it came under siege by Russian forces. See the tense moment with Russian troops as they tried to leave.

The 30 member countries of NATO met in Brussels on Friday to discuss the alliance's next steps in Ukraine. Diplomatic efforts have failed to end chaos in the country, eight days after Vladimir Putin ordered Russian troops to invade.

As CNN works to debunk misinformation about the war in Ukraine, some social media accounts are working to spread misinformation about CNN's own coverage of the war.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh is on the ground in Odessa, Ukraine, where locals, including an 11-year-old child, prepare for a possible Russian attack on their city.

• Putin sends message with three schools shelled in days

Russia is poised to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries to Ukraine in the coming days and weeks, as a senior Western intelligence official warned Moscow could "bombard cities into submission," an escalation that could lead to significant civilian casualties.

A fire that threatened potential disaster at Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant following an attack by Russian troops has been extinguished, authorities said early Friday morning.

ITV's Dan Rivers gives an emotional tour of a small village near Kharkiv, Ukraine, that was destroyed after being hit by Russian strikes.

Foreign citizens, some without any military training, are traveling Ukraine to join the fight against Russia. CNN's Sara Sidner talks to them about what motivated this decision.

Russia is blocking Facebook in the country, according to its communications regulator.

Russian troops have occupied Europe's largest nuclear power plant, after fierce fighting near the Ukrainian facility that drew international condemnation and sparked fears of a potential nuclear incident.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg discusses the alliance's current position in the Ukraine crisis following the latest round of Russian attacks targeting civilians and a nuclear power plant.

A blast struck a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 30 people, police and hospital officials said.

CNN's Nina dos Santos speaks with Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a former Russian oil tycoon and Kremlin critic who says Russian President Vladimir Putin is "the enemy of humankind."

Will China help Russia cope with the fallout from economic sanctions?

Residents of the Ukrainian cultural capital Lviv are assisting efforts to safeguard historic monuments, according to local heritage officials, with several stone statues seen being wrapped in protective sheets.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky condemned Russia's attack on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in a Facebook message and warned of the dangers associated with attacks on nuclear facilities.

Graphic new footage shows the aftermath of a Russian strike north of Kyiv. Officials say an apartment building in the city of Chernihiv was hit on March 3, leaving at least 33 people dead and 18 wounded.

CNN's Nic Robertson reports that Russian state media is not showing the death and destruction from the war with Ukraine and is instead showing Russian soldiers handing out humanitarian aid to Ukranians.

The southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol came under siege from Russian forces Thursday, as Moscow sought to tighten its grip on the south of the country and the humanitarian crisis appeared to dramatically worsen.

CNN's Nick Paton Walsh shares the stories of Ukrainians in the southern part of the country who are volunteering for the war effort against Russia in a variety of ways.

CNN's Sara Sidner reports on the growing number of refugees fleeing war in Ukraine for neighboring Poland as Russia escalates bombardment of key cities.

Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed his country amid the invasion into Ukraine and crippling sanctions on Russia's economy. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine triggered what one UN spokesperson said could become "Europe's largest refugee crisis this century." CNN looks at where those refugees have escaped to.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on Russian President Vladimir Putin to meet him and negotiate an end to the invasion.

The United States' closest Middle East allies on Wednesday condemned Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in a break from their previously neutral statements and a nod to the changing nature of a war that has created over a million refugees in just a week.

Nineteen-year-old Tasya stood with her friends on a cold morning in the Russian city of St. Petersburg as they joined protesters' chants against the Russian invasion of Ukraine: "Nyet Voine!" ("No to War!").

Russian police have detained more than 7,000 people so far, for protesting the country's invasion of Ukraine, according to local monitor site OVD-info.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been pushing the rhetoric of "denazification" as justification for his invasion of Ukraine. CNN's Sam Kiley speaks to members of the Jewish community in Uman, Ukraine, where residents are using a synagogue as shelter to get their views on Putin's claim.

For days, residents of Kyiv had been bracing themselves for a 40-mile-long convoy of Russian tanks, armored vehicles, and towed artillery to arrive for an assault on the Ukrainian capital.

CNN's Anderson Cooper reports from Lviv, Ukraine, as residents gear up for war amid Russia's invasion of the country.

A Western intelligence report indicated that Chinese officials in early February requested that senior Russian officials wait until after the Beijing Olympics had finished before beginning an invasion into Ukraine, US officials said Wednesday.

The die is being cast in Ukraine for a long, bloody war of attrition that threatens mass civilian deaths, a catastrophic refugee crisis and a geostrategic shake-up that would cement a new age of confrontation between the US and Russia.