Morning is breaking in Ukraine after a night where Russian troops advanced on the two major cities of Kharkiv and Kyiv.

Elsewhere in the world, US President Joe Biden dedicated much of his State of the Union speech to the situation in Ukraine.

Here’s what’s happened overnight:

• Russian troops have parachuted into Kharkiv in the past hour, stepping up an attack on Ukraine’s second-largest city which saw dozens of civilian killings in bombings yesterday
• The smaller southern city of Kherson has also fallen to Russian forces, local Ukrainian officials say.
• US President Joe Biden has banned Russian planes from America’s airspace
• In his State of the Union address, the US president said: “Putin may circle Kyiv with tanks, but he will never gain the hearts and souls of the Ukrainian people”.
• Ukraine’s envoy to the US was given a standing ovation at the address. Oksana Markarova has relayed crucial information to US lawmakers this week – including the claim that Russia has used banned vacuum weapons in warfare
• More than 600,000 people have fled Ukraine so far says the UN
• Boeing and ExxonMobil became the latest Western companies to cut ties with Russia
• Meanwhile, the nation of Belarus, a Russian ally, has doubled its troops on Ukraine’s northern border. Russian forces in the north have been dedicated to the campaign on Kyiv.

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• Ukraine Says Russian military is targeting civilians
• Two Russian Military transport planes shot down over Ukraine.

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