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PayPal, which owns the payment service, has urged Russian users to withdraw the balance of funds from their accounts by March 18, 2022. Russian customers are being asked to take this step “to minimize potential further service disruptions,” the company said in a statement posted on its website on Saturday, March 12.

Since March 5, PayPal has stopped providing services to Russian users, joining other financial and technology firms that have suspended their activities in Russia amid the war in Ukraine.

The company is “in solidarity with the international community in condemning Russia’s violent military aggression in Ukraine,” the president and CEO of PayPal Holdings Inc. said at the time. Dan Shulman. Since March 2, the service has stopped registering new users from the Russian Federation.

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• War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  Friday is not the day before the weekend. The days of the week for millions of people have lost their meaning – while this war is going on. Destruction, dead, wounded, defenders, refugees… Every day fills history with terrible shots, but also with moments of hope and solidarity. On March 11, the first train of the regular Deutsche Bahn line for the delivery of humanitarian aid left Germany for Ukraine.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  The most difficult situation now is in Mariupol. It is surrounded, the city is razed to the ground. A Ukrainian soldier photographs the damaged church on March 10.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  The bombing of the children’s hospital and maternity hospital in this city, which took place on the evening of March 9, caused shock and outrage throughout the world. The footage from Mariupol was already in the previous photo Time.news. This photo was taken the next day during debris removal and rescue operations.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  An elderly woman who died during the shelling in the city of Gogolev, Kiev region. The number of fatal casualties among the population increases every day of the war. According to the UN, as of March 10, 549 civilians have died since the beginning of the armed conflict in Ukraine.

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  Destroyed administrative building in Kharkov. According to the mayor of this Ukrainian city, Igor Terekhov, as of March 10, 400 residential multi-storey buildings have already been destroyed here.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  On the morning of March 11, for the first time during the war, strikes were carried out on the residential areas of the Dnieper, the fourth most populated city in Ukraine after Kyiv, Kharkov and Odessa. This was reported by the State Service of Ukraine for Emergency Situations (GSChS). Rescuers put out a fire in the Novokodaksky district. The photographs were distributed by the State Emergency Service.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  This is how the monument to the Duke de Richelieu in Odessa looks now. The city prepared for defense. The “Pearl by the Sea” could be the next target for devastating strikes.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  A kindergarten in one of the districts near Kyiv, which has become a refuge for almost sixty elderly people evacuated from Irpen, Gostomel and Borodyanka.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  An elderly woman was forced to flee Ukraine. In a hotel in the Romanian city of Siret on the Ukrainian border, she found temporary shelter.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  As of the morning of March 11, more than 109,000 refugees from Ukraine were registered in Germany. This photo was taken in the small German town of Lüneburg, where about 30 orphans from Ukraine were taken to an orphanage. Nikita is one of them.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  Switzerland also accepts people from Ukraine. The Pestalozzi Children’s Village in Trogen alone has accommodated nearly sixty people. The idea of ​​creating this village for suffering children was put forward in 1944 during the Second World War.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  Queen Maxima, the wife of King Willem-Alexander, met with children from Ukraine in the Netherlands. She visited the temporary accommodation center for refugees from around the world in the village of Harskamp.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  Footwear for refugees in a humanitarian aid warehouse in the Czech Republic. In addition to donating clothes and other things throughout Europe, people make private donations to various charitable foundations – to accounts specially created for this purpose. One of the German foundations, for example, issued €5 solidarity stickers distributed by volunteers.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  Little Amal (“Little Amal”) brought flowers to the Ukrainian Embassy in London. This doll personifies the fate of a Syrian child looking for his mother, and is the main character of the theater project “The Walk”. The project started in the summer of 2021 in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria, from where Amal began her journey through Europe.

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  War in Ukraine – 11.03.2022

  The helmet of German Formula 1 driver Sebastian Vettel during training sessions in Bahrain on March 11. Earlier, Formula 1 terminated the contract for showing races in Russia, and also canceled the 2022 Grand Prix in Sochi.

  Author: Nikolay Permyakov