On #TheUpdate this Tuesday, Russian forces continued to pound Ukranian cities in a bombardment that deepened the war's humanitarian crisis as the countries kept open a narrow diplomatic channel with more planned talks. The U.N says that the number of Ukranians forces the flee the country has surpassed 3 million. A projectile slammed into a 15-story apartment building, killing at least one. Meanwhile, there are idealists who abandoned their jobs for the battlefields of Ukraine. They're looking for a cause it simply to fight. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's call for foreign volunteers to join an international brigade to help bolster his country's defense with a new layer of resistance to Russia's invasion is for now a ragtag army. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇳

Locally, police got both men that they were looking for that are accused of various crimes. In D.C, police say they arrested the suspected gunman who has been stalking homeless men asleep on the streets of NYC and D.C, killing at least two and wounding three others in less than two weeks. Meanwhile in Philadelphia, they've arrested a man wanted in the stabbing of two employees inside of MoMA. Officers found 60-year-old Gary Cabana sleeping in a bench at a bus terminal. In East Flushing, Queens, police say that a dissident legal scholar who was jailed for two years in China after participating in the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement has been killed in his law firm's office. 66-year-okd Li Jinjin was stabbed to death in the city where had long worked as an immigration lawyer.

In a new poll by the Associated Press and The Center for Public Affairs research, few Americans believe there's been significant progress over the last 50 years in achieving equal treatment for black people in dealings with police and the criminal justice system.

And Generation Z has declared TikTok a no sex zone. Users have banned together to form #CelibacyTikTok - a place where young people have decided to practice abstinence. 👅💦📱

We have the latest details (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine.

Russian forces continue their assault, firing in suburbs around Kyiv and attacking other cities, even as the two countries held another round of diplomatic talks. They ended today without a breakthrough, but more negotiations are scheduled for tomorrow. Now in week 3, thousands of civilians and soldiers have died, and the war has forced nearly 3 million people to flee Ukraine. Some of the exhausted refugees have shared heartbreaking stories about leaving family members behind, with one woman simply saying "I wish this war would end." 🇺🇦🇷🇺

We'll also tell you about how in Ukraine, female war reporters are building on the legacy of pioneers. 🇺🇦👩🏽📰🎤

On #TheUpdate this Monday, Russian troops are keeping up pressure on Kyiv and air raid sirens we're heard activated the country overnight, even as both nations were expected to resume diplomatic talks. The attacks in the capital come a day after Russia escalated its offensive by shelling areas close to the Polish border. The war has also taking a human cost as a pregnant woman and her baby died after Russia. Umber the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth. Thousands of civilians and soldiers have been killed. Meanwhile, President Putin, according to U.S intelligence as angry and frustrated more than two weeks into a war he thought would dominate in two days. But Putin may also be preparing to cause even more violence and destruction in Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱

Locally, the NYPD is on the hunt for two different men. First, the search is in for a man who is believed to have attacked multiple people who were sleeping on the streets of NYC and Washington D.C, killing two and injuring three others. Meanwhile, new video released shows a man identified as 60-year-old Gary Cabana entering the MoMA lobby through a revolving door then climbing onto the desk and leaping over it before cornering the two employees and stabbing them. Winter isn't through with us just yet. A late winter storm blasted the northeast with strong winds and heavy snow, sending temperatures plunging after first taking aim at the deep south.

In Delaware, a trial to determine whether the Boy Scouts of America's proposed reorganization plan should be approved is beginning more than two years after it sought bankruptcy protection amid an onslaught of child sex abuse allegations. And Christmas can be a very romantic time, with many people proposing to their partners. But the situation veas very different for one woman, whose romantic gift left her more than a little disappointing. 🎅🏽🎁

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Russia has escalated their attacks in the west, striking a millitary base in Ukraine where its troops has drained with NATO forces and bringing the conflict closer to Poland and the bloc. The Ukrainians said that over 30 cruise missiles were fired at the base located 19 miles northwest of the regional hub Lviv, killing at least 35 people and wounding 134 others. Police in Kyiv confirmed that a U.S video journalist, Brent Renaud, has died, and another U.S journalist, Juan Arredondo, was injured when the two were attacked by Russian forces. Meanwhile, in Vatican City, Pope Francis called for the Russian attacks to stop, "in the name of God." 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇺🇸

We'll also tell you the harrowing tales of Ukranian refugees, even as the number of refugees fleeing is easing.

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine. Now in week 3, Russian forces continued their relentless assault on the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, shelling the city's downtown. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said today that Russia is bombing Mariupol "24 hours a day." And as Russian units also fanned out to prepare for an assault on Kyiv, Zelenskyy urged his people to continue their resistance, saying that Russia would need to carpet-bomb Kyiv and kill its residents to take the city. The war has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee Ukraine. 🇺🇦🇷🇺

We'll also explain what the European Union is doing to help the Ukrainian refugees. 🇪🇺

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording Friday) on the ongoing Russian war in Ukraine. Russian forces expanded their offensive in Ukraine today, striking new areas in the west, while President Vladimir Putin approved the recruitment of "volunteers" from Syria and elsewhere to join the fight. Sanctions against Russia are mounting, and the U.S and its allies downgraded Russia's trade status. Meanwhile, Russia's baseless claims that the U.S is conducting "biological activities" in Ukraine persist. At a meeting of the U.N Security Council, the U.S said that Russia was lying and spreading disinformation. Both Washington and Kyiv have denied that bioweapons are being made. The war has forced more than 2.5 million people to flee Ukraine as others are seeking refuge in basements, subway stations and underground shelters. 🇷🇺🇺🇦🇸🇾

We'll also tell you how Russia is widening their social media crackdown by blocking Instagram. 📱

From New York, the greatest city in the world, it's The Update with Brandon Julien!

On Friday's editon of #TheUpdate, as the Russian war in Ukraine enters week 3, President Vladimir Putin approved bringing "volunteer" fighters from the Middle Easy and elsewhere to join the war. Russian forces appeared to be expanding their offensive, striking new areas in the west. As the war grinds on, Ukraine says 100,000 people were evacuated over the past two days in a total of seven cities in the north and center of the country. Meanwhile, the mayor of Warsaw, Poland is appealing for international help as the city becomes overwhelmed by refugees, with more than a tenth of all those fleeing the war arriving in the Polish capital.

🇺🇦🇷🇺🇵🇱Locally, an 83-year-old ex-convict who spent decades behind bars for killing two women is now charged in the dismemberment of a Brooklyn woman. Harvey Marcelin was arrested last week on a charge of concealing a human corpse after being recorded on surveillance video abandoning a bag containing the victim's torso. After two years of the pandemic battering the city, Mayor Adams is hoping to steer it towards an economic revival by luring tourists back, beautifying the streets, and embracing the looking legal pot industry, unveiling an economic development plan that he said would usher in a "New New York." Speaking of, on the two-year anniversary of the start of the pandemic, people are shedding their masks and getting back to normal as COVID-19 deaths and cases plummet. Meanwhile, federal officials are extending the requirement for masks on planes and public transportation through mid-April while taking steps that could lead to lifting the rule. And are you sick of always missing the postman? Or don't feel comfortable answering the door to someone you don't know? Either way, these are just some reasons why people install video doorbells outside their homes- but they also come in handy if you're worried about what your partner might be up to when you're not there. 🚪🎥

We have the latest developments (at the time of recording) on the Russian war in Ukraine.

It now enters week 3, with Russian forces continuing to bombard major cities and desperate civilians hoping to escape through agreed-upon safe corridors. Thousands of people have been killed, and more than 2.3 million have filed since the invasion began. Encircled cities have been suffering from shortages of food, medicine, heat and electricity, and thousands of trapped civilians were hoping to leave today during temporary cease-fires the two side agreed to- though most past attempts failed because of continued Russian shelling. The countries' top diplomats met in Turkey for the highest-level talks since the invasion began, but they couldn't find common ground. 🇺🇦🇷🇺🇹🇷

And we'll tell you about how the war has prompted some of America's most prominent evangelical leaders to raise the question over whether the world is now in the "end of days". ✝️⛪