2022-03-14
Guardian Front Page 14th of March 2022
The Guardian says the attack on a Ukrainian base near its border with Poland came after the Kremlin said supply lines into the country were legitimate military targets.
The Guardian says the attack on a Ukrainian base near its border with Poland came after the Kremlin said supply lines into the country were legitimate military targets.
Metro leads with a plea for people to take in refugees from Ukraine – people who do so will get a £350-a-month “thank you” payment from the government.
The 35 people killed at the military base near Lviv represents the “most deadly attack on western Ukraine to date,” the FT reports.The paper says it underlines the risk that the war could spread beyond Ukraine.
An entire city in eastern Ukraine has been wiped out as a result of the Russian invasion, according to a local governor.The Sunday Times report on Volnovakha says that “heavy bombardments from the air and ground artillery assaults have demolished much of the small but strategically important city of 21,000 people – similar in size to Truro in Cornwall”.
The Sunday Mirror’s front page features a photograph of dozens of orphaned babies hiding from bombing in Kyiv – and the newspaper is calling for 100,000 orphans who were living in 700 homes across Ukraine to be granted safe passage out of the war-torn country.
“It’s hell here” is the headline on The Independent, with people in Mariupol describing how they have survived two weeks in a city under siege.
In what Daily Star Sunday dubs as an “intergalactic exclusive”, a reader claims he was visited by “the real-life Men In Black” after he told police that he had seen a UFO.