大象传媒

We hear the latest on the ground from the 大象传媒's Lyse Doucet in Kyiv and Sarah Rainsford in Kharkiv. Following shelling on Thursday night, Russia has seized Ukraine's largest nuclear power plant. Vitaly Shevchenko is Russia editor for 大象传媒 Monitoring, and explains the implications. We get reaction to the seizure from Ukraine's finance minister, Serhiy Marchenko, who also calls for tougher Western sanctions to be imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine. The UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, says that a million people have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began - almost all of them women and children. More than half have travelled west into to Poland, Olivia Lace-Evans reports from Warsaw. Businesses in America that have anything to do with Russia are facing something of a public backlash as the war intensifies, as we hear from Kirstin Schwab of Marketplace on American Public Media, in New York. Chris Low of FHN Financial explains how Wall Street has reacted as the Ukraine and Russia enter a second week of war. Plus, we explore Russia's crackdown on independent media freedom, where a new law has been passed making it a criminal offence to spread "false information" about the armed forces. Vera Krichevskaya was a co-founder of Dohzd, which until it was shut down earlier this week was the only independent news channel in Russia, and gives us her perspective on the latest developments.

(Photo: damage in a building entrance after the shelling by Russian forces in Kharkiv, March 2, 2022. Credit: Getty Images.)

(Picture: Part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Picture credit: Press service of Energoatom.)