Russia has launched the offensive in eastern Ukraine, announces President Zelensky
Russia launched a major offensive in eastern Ukraine on Monday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, with Moscow opening a new phase of its invasion after failing to take the capital Kiev. In recent weeks, Russia's military campaign has shifted to the eastern Donbass region, which has been partially controlled by pro-Russian separatist forces since 2014. "We can now say that Russian troops have started the battle for Donbass, for which they have been preparing for a long time. A very large part of the entire Russian army is now devoted to this offensive," the Ukrainian president said in a speech broadcast on Telegram.
"No matter how many Russian soldiers are brought here, we will fight. We will defend ourselves," he said, after warning the day before that "they literally want to finish and destroy the Donbass." For Andriy Yermak, President Zelensky's chief of staff, "the second phase of the war has begun." "Trust the armed forces of Ukraine," he said on Telegram.
After violence in Jerusalem, rocket fire into Israel and strikes on Gaza
The Israeli military carried out early Tuesday airstrikes in months on the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for a rocket fire from the Palestinian enclave, illustrating that local tensions show no sign of abating after a weekend of violence at holy sites in Jerusalem. On Monday night, alarm sirens sounded in southern Israel for the first rocket fire from the Gaza Strip into Israel since early January as a projectile crashed at sea off the Tel Aviv metropolis. "A rocket was fired from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory and was intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system," the IDF said in a statement.
  Then, early Tuesday, the Israeli air force said it had bombed an arming site of Hamas, the armed Islamist movement in power in the Gaza Strip, in retaliation for the rocket fire from that territory.
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Deliveroo soon set on its fate: the criminal court of Paris must say Tuesday if the platform has employed as independent deliverers who should, according to the prosecution, have been employees.
Oxfam is urging the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to "abandon its austerity demands as the cost-of-living crisis increases hunger and poverty in the world," according to a statement from the NGO on Tuesday.
Colin Kaepernick, who has not played in the NFL since late 2016 and his famous knee on the ground to protest against police violence against blacks, reaffirmed his desire to continue his career, even if it meant accepting a role as a backup quarterback.
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