Newspaper headlines: Putin's Mariupol threat and Gove 'target of plot'

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By BBC News
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The ongoing war in Ukraine, including the destruction of a shopping centre in Kyiv, features in most papers

The Guardian reports that an investigation it has carried out with other international news organisations has revealed more than £13bn of global assets linked to Russian oligarchs and officials.

All 35 Russians are alleged to have close ties with President Putin. The assets range from offshore accounts to luxury properties in London.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Italy is being urged to seize what is believed to be the world's most expensive yacht which allegedly belongs to the Russian leader.

The Times says that associates of the jailed Russian opposition leader, Alexander Navalny, claim the half-billion pound boat - undergoing repairs in western Italy - is crewed by members of the security service which protects the president.

The ruins of the shopping centre in Kyiv that was destroyed in a Russian attack are pictured on the front of the Financial Times.

The Daily Mail's reporter has visited the bombed site of what was Ukraine's newest, largest mall. Next door, the windows of flats are all blown out; their doors buckled.

The Times highlights Russia's threat to people living in Mariupol that they face being prosecuted in military tribunals. One estimate suggests that 90% of buildings in the city have been damaged or destroyed.

The Telegraph and the Mail both reveal how a pro-Kremlin newspaper suggested that nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in Ukraine.

Previously the Russian military had said only 500 have died. The figure quickly disappeared from the site.

The Telegraph says the numbers are similar to US intelligence estimates; according to the Mail there's speculation that the statistics were uploaded by a pro-Ukrainian employee.

Ahead of the chancellor's spring statement on Wednesday, the Telegraph says at least five cabinet members are understood to have made last minute appeals to ditch the national insurance rise due to come in next month.

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There is plenty of speculation as to what Chancellor Rishi Sunak will say in his spring statement on Wednesday

The Times' leader column warns against this - saying the fifth richest households would make half the gains.

Instead it recommends raising the threshold at which employees pay the tax - a proposal the Mail suggests Rishi Sunak is considering.

The Daily Express leads on a campaign to increase state pensions.

The Mail notes that the Pensions Secretary, Therese Coffey, has committed to honouring the triple lock. Meanwhile the Sun warns that interest on government debt will cost £50bn this year leaving the chancellor little room to manoeuvre.

The Indian and Chinese restaurant sectors appeal in the Daily Star for the chancellor not to restore VAT levels in their sector to 20%. The Asian Catering Federation warns it will be the final nail in the industry's coffin.

Responding to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's release from an Iranian jail, the Daily Mirror claims Boris Johnson should hang his head in shame, saying ignorance, mistakes and callousness led to what it calls her "six years of hell". The paper backs a former Tory Foreign Office minister's call for a parliamentary inquiry.

And finally, a mother in West Lothian tells the Sun that while she knew energy prices were rising she could not believe her latest bill. Shell Energy's app demanded nearly £2bn. She explained she was concerned her provider would empty her account trying to take this payment.

The paper suggests she was in "Shell shock".