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Today’s Top Stories from NBC News TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 2022 Good morning, NBC News readers.
Civilians in Kyiv are increasingly coming under fire as Russia has stepped up its attacks on Ukraine's capital.
Here's the latest on the war in Ukraine and everything else we're watching this Tuesday morning. 
Rescuers work next to a residential building damaged by shelling in Kyiv, Ukraine, on Tuesday. (Ukrainian State Emergency Service / Reuters)
Kyiv's Mayor Vitali Klitschko called for a 35-hour curfew to be imposed as the city came under intensifying attacks. Telling residents to prepare to remain at home or at a bomb shelter for the next two days, he called it a "difficult and dangerous moment," on his Telegram channel.
Even with the city under fire from the air and fighting raging outside it on the ground, the leaders of three European countries were heading to Kyiv to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of support.
And while the West rallies around Kyiv, the United States once again warned China against offering military or financial aid to Moscow as fears of the conflict morphing into a proxy war grow.
"We have communicated very clearly to Beijing that we won't stand by," State Department spokesperson Ned Price told reporters after National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan met with Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi in Rome. "We will not allow any country to compensate Russia for its losses."
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