* Russian forces seized Europe's biggest nuclear power plant in southeastern Ukraine in heavy fighting but a huge blaze on the site was put out. Russia's troops also bombarded Ukraine's capital Kyiv and laid siege to several other cities.
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* The Zaporozhzhia nuclear plant was undamaged by what UN nuclear chief Rafael Grossi said he believed was a Russian projectile. Russia blamed Ukrainian saboteurs for the attack.
* The eastern Black Sea port of Mariupol is without water and heating and food is scarce, its mayor said, appealing for military help. "We are simply being destroyed."
* Frequent shelling could be heard on Friday from the centre of the capital Kyiv.
* NATO allies rejected Ukraine's demand for no-fly zones, saying that would lead to an even more brutal war. "We are not part of this conflict," said NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg.
* Ukrainians have driven invading Russian forces out of Mykolayiv but fighting continues on the city outskirts, the governor of the Black Sea port said.
* Ukrainian defence forces are holding on to the northern city of Chernihiv, Ukrainian presidential adviser Oleksiy Arestovich said.
* Ukraine retains a "significant majority" of its military aircraft nine days after the invasion started, a US defence official said.
* The BBC said it would temporarily suspend the work of all its journalists and support staff in Russia after the introduction of a new law that could jail anybody found to be intentionally spreading "fake" news.
* Russia blocked access to Facebook, accusing it of restricting access to Russian media on the platform.
* Russia's invasion of Ukraine, one of the world's biggest wheat growers, will drive up the price of bread. This will erode food security for millions of people, the World Food Programme said.
* Russia's Novaya Gazeta newspaper, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co-winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize, said it would remove material on Russia's military actions in Ukraine from its website because of censorship.
with reporting from AP
Australian Associated Press
