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ABOVE:Peoplein Kyivpassburnedcarsadayaftershellinghitthisresidentialareaof Ukraine’scapital.Inthe

country’ssecond-largestcity,Kharkiv,Russianbombardmentcontinued,withUkrainianPresidentVolodymyr

Zelenskycallingtheattacka“warcrime”thatis deliberatelytargetingcivilians.BELOW:AUkrainiansoldiergets

intopositionas vehiclesapproachacheckpointnearthecityof Dnipro.Asthefightingwenton,movesbytheUnited

StatesandotherWesternnationsto isolateRussiafinanciallycausedthevalueof therubleto dropnearly 30 percent.

BYISABELLEKHURSHUDYAN,

DAVIDL.STERN

ANDKARENDEYOUNG

kharkiv,ukraine—Russian

andUkrainian delegations held

five hoursofinconclusive talks

nearthe Belarus borderMonday,

as heavy Russian bombardment

continuedin Kharkiv,Ukraine’s

second-largestcity, andWestern

countries tightenedtheirfinan-

cialstranglehold on theRussian

banking system.

Amidwhatappeared to be

sporadic missile strikes in Kyiv,

satellite photographsshowed a

Russian columnoftroops and

armored vehiclesstretching for

17 miles andheading southeast,

in the direction of the Ukrainian

capital.The United Nations refu-

geeagencysaidmore thanhalf a

millionUkrainians,primarily

womenand children,had fled to

neighboringcountries seeking

safety.

Ukrainian President Volod-

ymyr Zelensky, in avideo posted

late Monday,calledthe shelling

of Kharkiva“war crime”and the

“deliberatedestructionofpeo-

ple”inareaswherethereare no

military facilities. Callingfor an

international tribunal to judge

Russia’sactions,hesaid, “Noone

in the world willforgive you for

killing peaceful Ukrainianpeo-

ple.”

He saidthatthe bordertalks

SEEUKRAINEONA

BYANNIELINSKEY

ANDTYLERPAGER

PresidentBiden’s teamhas re-

visedhisfirstState of the Union

address to portrayRussia’s unpro-

voked invasionof Ukraineas a

majorcrisis facingthe West,ac-

cordingto aperson familiarwith

the text, shifting the tenorofa

speechthathis teamhadlong

hoped would launcharesetofhis

administration.

While notawholesalerewrite

of theaddress,which will be deliv-

eredat 9p.m. EasterntimeTues-

dayfromthe U.S. Capitol,the new

version willreflect theway the

crisishasaddedurgencytoBiden’s

running theme of defending de-

mocracies, according to oneadvis-

erwho spokeonthe condition of

anonymitytodiscussprivatetalks.

This newheavy doseof foreign

policyisone of several ways the

speechwilldepartfromthetypical

Stateofthe Union address,which

modern presidents usually use to

SEEBIDENONA

Biden pivots his

State of the Union

focus from agenda

to war in Ukraine

BYANTHONYFAIOLA,

RICKNOACK

ANDKARLAADAM

NationsinEurope are opening
the door to ahistoric wave of
refugees fleeing the war in
Ukraine,breaking with the conti-
nent’spastresistanceto asylum
seekersfromthe Muslim world
andAfrica, andembracinghun-
dreds of thousands of newarrivals
whosomeleadersare hailingas
culturally and ethnicallyEuro-
pean.
Therapidlyescalating Ukraini-
an wave —alreadymore than
520,000people,overthe spanof
less than aweek —appeared
poised to dwarf thelandmark Eu-
ropean migrant crisis of 2015 and
2016,when2millionpeople,most-
ly Syriansfleeing civilwar,sought
sanctuary.Thosearrivals sparked
intensefrictionamongEuropean
Unionnations, fueledaresurgent
movement ofthe far-right and led
tobacklash policies designedto
SEEREFUGEESONA

Europeembraces

wave of refugees,

breakingfrom

past opposition

green camouflagetarpaulin.

Andoutsideonebuilding,they

weremakingmolotovcocktails

by the scores.“Weare going to

givethe Russianslotsof pre-

sents,”promisedYuriy Syrotyuk,

45,alocaljournalist-turned-

warrior,anAK-47 rifle slungover

SEEKYIVONA

theypositioned multiple ma-

chinegunsincludingaSoviet-

era Dushkaheavy gun,shoulder-

heldantitank rocketsand an

antiaircraftgun withits barrels

pointedat the sky, among other

weaponry.

An armoredpersonnelcarrier

withacannonwas coveredby a

nian fighters were taking no

chances.TheRussianswereless

thanan hour’s driveup the road.

By Mondayevening,the

Ukrainians—amixof soldiers

and volunteers—had dug deep

trenchesand erected barricades

of gianttrucktirestoppedwith

sand.At one wideintersection,

BYSUDARSANRAGHAVAN,

SIOBHÁNO’GRADY,

WHITNEYSHEFTE

ANDKOSTIANTYNKHUDOV

kyiv,ukraine—Alongahigh-

wayflowingnorth fromthe capi-

tal, linedby businessesandtall

apartmentbuildings,the Ukrai-

In aKyiv under siege, locals promise‘lots of presents’for the invaders

BYSARAHKAPLAN

ANDBRADYDENNIS

In the hotter and more hellish
world humans are creating,parts
of the planetcouldbecomeun-
bearablein the not-so-distantfu-
ture, apanelof the world’s fore-
mostscientistswarnedMonday in
an exhaustivereport on the esca-
latingtoll of climatechange.
Unchecked greenhouse gas
emissionswillraisesea levelssev-
eral feet, swallowing smallisland
nationsandoverwhelmingeven
the world’s wealthiest coastal re-

gions.Drought,heat, hungerand

disaster mayforce millions of peo-

ple fromtheir homes. Coral reefs

couldvanish, along withagrow-

ingnumberofanimalspecies.Dis-

ease-carryinginsects would pro-

liferate. Deaths —frommalnutri-

tion, extremeheat, pollution —

willsurge.

These are some of the grim

projectionsdetailed by the Inter-

governmental Panel on Climate

Change, aUnitedNationsbody

dedicated to providing policy-

makerswithregularassessments

of the warming world.

Drawing on thousandsofaca-

demic studiesfrom around the

globe, the sweeping analysisfinds

thatclimate changeisalready

causing “dangerousand wide-

spreaddisruption”tothe natural

world,aswell as billions of people

aroundthe planet.Failure to curb

pollutionfrom fossilfuels and

other humanactivities, it says,

willcondemntheworldtoafuture

thatisboth universally dangerous

and deeplyunequal.

Low-income countries,which

generateonlyatinyfractionof

global emissions,will experience

the vast majority of deathsand

displacement fromthe worst-case

warming scenarios,the IPCC

warns.Yetthesenationshave the

leastcapacitytoadapt—adispari-

ty thatextends to even the basic

researchneededtounderstand

looming risks.

“I have seenmanyscientific

reports in my time,but nothing

likethis,”U.N.SecretaryGeneral

AntónioGuterressaidinastate-

ment.Noting the litanyofdevas-

tatingimpacts thatalreadyare

unfolding,hedescribed the docu-

mentas “anatlas of humansuffer-

ing and adamning indictmentof

failedclimate leadership.”

“This abdicationofleadership

is criminal,”Guterresadded.“The

world’sbiggestpollutersareguilty

of arson of our onlyhome.”

Yetifthereisaglimmerofhope

in the morethan3,500-page re-

port, it is thatthe world still has a

chance to choose aless cata-

strophic path. While some climate

impactsare destinedto worsen,

the amountthatEarth willulti-

matelywarmis not yetwritten in

stone.

SEECLIMATEONA

U.N. panel warns of ‘rapidly closing window’ for averting climate catastrophe

‘Arson of our onlyhome’

Anew U.N. report found that

climatechange has:

•Caused afivefold increasein

extreme heatin the world’sbiggest

cities over the past 40 years.

•Caused the local disappearanceof

over 400 plantand animalspecies.

•Doubled the area burned by

wildfires in western North America

between 1984and 2017.

•Driven an annual averageof

20 million peoplefromtheirhomes

becauseofweather disasters.

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Westernsanctions have devastated

the value of theRussian ruble,

whichlost closeto 30 percentofits

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No breakthrough in crisis talks

Assaultcontinues

as envoysfrom

Ukraine,Russia

plan2nd meeting

BYJEFFSTEIN

ANDROBYNDIXON

TheU.S.governmentandits
Europeanallieson Mondayim-
posed sweepingnewpenalties
aimedat cripplingRussia’secon-
omy, as theWestescalated its
financialwar againstthe Kremlin
overthe invasionof Ukraine.
Russia’seconomywas already
showingsignsof severedistress
beforethe newmeasureswere
implemented,withthe value of
the rubleplungingand crowdsof
Russians rushing to withdraw
cashfromATMs.But thesitua-
tion deteriorated markedly on
Monday, with theRussiancentral
bankraisingits keyinterest rate
from9.5 percentto 20 percent,a
movethatcouldbe seenas away
to deter peoplefromwithdraw-
ing moremoneyfromdomestic
banks.Andofficialsalsokept the
Moscowstock exchangeclosed
Mondayand Tuesday, astep that
delayed an even greater flightof
money.
Europeanand U.S. officialshad
announcedmostofthe sanctions
Saturday, but manyofthe details
werenot releaseduntilMonday,
whenthe restrictionswereimple-
mented. Additional measures
also wererolledout.
Under the newregime,all peo-
ple in the United States and
European Unionare banned
fromtradingwithRussia’scen-
SEESANCTIONSONA

Sanctionsfreeze

‘Putin’swarchest’

andendanger

Russianeconomy

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