Follow live updates as Russia continues its invasion of Ukraine with bombardments of key cities.

Further missiles pounded the Ukrainian capital as Russian forces pressed their advance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pleaded with the international community to do more, saying sanctions announced so far were not enough.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said the sanctions agreed by him and other EU leaders early this morning will not halt what is happening in Ukraine but will "hit hard" at Russia and its economy.

UEFA has moved this year's Champions League final from St Petersburg to Paris in the wake of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

A man in his 50s arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of 36-year-old Keith Conlon in Tallaght has been charged.

A new National Waiting List Plan promises to have 1.7 million people treated and removed from waiting lists for treatment.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has confirmed that there have been multiple Russian airstrikes in cities across the country, including Kyiv, as Russian forces continue to press towards the capital.

Aer Lingus has today reported an operating loss, before exceptational items, of €347m for the year to the end of December, an improvement on the loss of €361m reported in 2020.

Refugees from Ukraine, including dozens of children and two women with their cats, camped overnight at a train station in neighbouring Poland after fleeing Russia's invasion yesterday.

RTÉ's Political Correspondent, Paul Cunningham, reports on how Ukraine has found itself at war with Russia.

Russia may have chosen to capture the Chernobyl nuclear plant because strategically "it was just in the way" of its military plans in Ukraine, it has been suggested.

Oil prices jumped nearly 3% today as Russia's invasion of Ukraine stoked global supply concerns as markets brace for the potential impact of trade sanctions on major crude exporter Russia.

Europe's main stocks index bounced off nine month lows this morning after a late rally on Wall Street last night as investors hunted for bargains after a bruising sell-off on fears of the fallout from Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

The US President has unveiled new sanctions against Russia after Moscow launched an all-out invasion of Ukraine.

As Russia invades Ukraine by land, air and sea - the biggest attack by one state against another in Europe since World War II - here is the day in pictures.

The advice from the Department of Foreign Affairs to Irish citizens in Ukraine is to shelter in a secure place. It is understood there are now 64 Irish citizens in Ukraine, most of whom have families and are settled in the country.

A man who was shot in the head on farmland in south Co Dublin earlier this week has died in hospital.

Hundreds of Ukrainians fleeing war with Russia started arriving in neighbouring central European countries and the region braced for many more, setting up reception points and sending troops towards the borders to provide assistance.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said Ireland will provide "an initial €10 million fund towards humanitarian purposes" in Ukraine, but added that the Government would "stand ready to do whatever else it can".

A Pakistani man has been sentenced to death in Islamabad for the murder of Noor Mukadam, who spent over a decade in Ireland while her father served at the Pakistani Embassy in Dublin.