2022-03-16
Times Front Page 16th of March 2022
President Zelenskyy’s concession that Ukraine may not be able to join NATO is on the front of The Times – something he once had ambitions to do.
President Zelenskyy’s concession that Ukraine may not be able to join NATO is on the front of The Times – something he once had ambitions to do.
About 44,000 offers were received within six hours from families with spare rooms and organisations providing places under the Homes for Ukraine scheme, The Times says.
The Times says the attack on a base in Yavoriv, near Lviv, about 15 miles from the Polish border, moves the conflict perilously close to the EU and NATO borders.
The Times says that Kyiv is “ready to face the onslaught” – and reports that the capital’s remaining residents are preparing to defend themselves by “relying on trenches, sandbags and relentless optimism”.
Britain became the first country to sanction Roman Abramovich on Thursday with ministers accusing him of having “blood on his hands” because of links to President Putin, The Times says.
Poland says it will give all of its MiG-29 fighter jets to the US with Ukraine set to receive them, The Times writes.
The Times has a report from hospitals in Ukraine’s second-largest city of Kharkiv.
The Times reports on Ukrainian families fleeing for their lives in the town of Irpin, just outside Kyiv
The Times reports from the Ukrainian president’s home city of Kryvyi Rih, where a blunt message scrawled across
a banner on a bridge read “Welcome to Hell, Russian Occupant”, with local people expressing their readiness to fight for Volodymyr Zelenskyy.