LVIV: A narrow diplomatic path remained open Ukraine And Russia planned another round of talks and Moscow’s military bombed cities across the country, including the capital, deepening the humanitarian crisis.
Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, major explosions erupted in Kyiv, while Russia stifled its progress on several fronts.
Elsewhere, a convoy of 160 civilian cars left the besieged port city of Mariupol along a designated humanitarian route, the city council reported, in a rare glimmer of hope that shattered homes and other buildings in a deadly siege in a week and a half. And the people left are desperate for food, water, heat and medicine.
The latest talks, held via video conference, were the fourth round involving high-level officials from both countries and the first in a week. Talks with an aide of the President of Ukraine ended on Monday without any success after several hours Volodymyr Zelensky It said the negotiators took “a technical break” and planned to meet again on Tuesday.
Both sides had expressed some optimism over the past few days. mykhailo podolyakiZelensky’s aide tweeted that negotiators would discuss “peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops and security guarantees”.
Previous discussions held personally in Belarus did not lead to any permanent humanitarian routes or agreements to end the fighting.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration supports Ukraine’s participation in talks with Russia, but the Russian President Vladimir Putin Shows signs of de-escalating to demonstrate good faith.
Overall, nearly all Russian military offensives were halted after making little progress over the weekend, according to a senior US defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the Pentagon’s assessment. The official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the center of Kyiv.
The official said the Russian military has fired more than 900 missiles but Ukraine’s airspace is still disputed, with Russia not achieving total air superiority.
Ukrainian officials said the Russians attacked an airplane factory in Kyiv, killing two people, sparking a massive fire. The Antonov factory is Ukraine’s largest aircraft plant and produces many of the world’s largest cargo aircraft.
Russian artillery fire also targeted a nine-story apartment building in the city’s northern Obolonsky district, killing two more people, officials said.
Ukraine’s emergency agency said Russian airstrikes near a Ukrainian checkpoint caused widespread damage in the Kyiv city neighborhood, killing one person.
Katerina Lott said she was in her apartment as her child was doing homework when they heard a loud explosion and ran for shelter.
“The child became hysterical. Our windows and balcony were broken. A part of the floor fell down,” she said. “It was very, very scary.”
In an area outside Kyiv, Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was injured and hospitalized while reporting, the network said.
In Russia, the main evening news program live on state television was briefly interrupted by a woman who walked into the studio holding a poster against the war. The OVD-Info website, which tracks political arrests, said she was an employee of Channel 1 who was taken into police custody.
Officials said a town councilor from Brovry, east of Kyiv, was killed in fighting there. Local officials said shells also hit the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin, Buka and Hostomel, which have seen some of the worst fighting in Russia’s stalled attempt to capture the capital.
Air strikes were reported across the country, including in the southern city of Mykolaiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, where heat was knocking over most of the city. Explosions also occurred overnight around the Russian-held Black Sea port of Kherson.
Nine people were killed in a rocket attack on a TV tower in the western village of Antopol, according to the region’s governor.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, firefighters put out the smoldering remains of a four-story residential building. It was not clear whether there were casualties.
In Mariupol, where the war has caused some of the greatest suffering, the city council did not say how many people were in the convoy of cars headed west to the city of Zaporizhzhya. But it said there appeared to be a ceasefire on the route.
Previous efforts to evacuate civilians and provide humanitarian aid to the southern city of 430,000 were thwarted by fighting.
Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Russian forces to take control of Mariupol, who were forced to retreat. Satellite images from Maxar Technologies show fires burning across the city, with many high-rise buildings heavily damaged or destroyed.
The Kremlin-backed leader of the Russian territory of Chechnya said on a messaging app that Chechen fighters were leading the attack on Mariupol.
Robert Mardini, director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the war had become “no less than a nightmare” for those living in the besieged cities, and called for safe corridors and humanitarian aid to evacuate civilians. In.
“The situation cannot continue like this,” he said. “History is watching what is happening in Mariupol and other cities.”
The Associated Press has learned that a pregnant woman, who became a symbol of Ukraine’s anguish when she was taken from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol last week, has died with her baby.
Mariupol residents, including Natalia Koldash, rushed to take shelter inside a building on Sunday as an unidentified plane passed over.
“We don’t have any information at all,” Koldash said. “We don’t know anything. It’s like we’re living in a dense forest.”
Associated Press video showed a damaged residential building and debris from another building that a young man named Dima described as an elementary school.
“There was no army in this school,” he said. “It’s not clear why it was killed.”
The Russian military said 20 civilians were killed by a ballistic missile launched by Ukrainian forces in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The claim could not be independently verified.
The United Nations has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, although it believes the real toll is much higher. The United Nations has called for Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 2.8 million people leaving their homes in Poland and other neighboring countries.
Russia’s military is larger and better equipped than Ukraine’s, but its troops have faced strong resistance from weapons supplied by the West.
During a meeting in Rome with a senior Chinese diplomat, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned China against helping Russia.
Two administrative officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said China had signaled to Moscow to provide military aid to Ukraine and financial assistance to help stave off the effects of Western sanctions. Will be ready, which includes the fourth set. The EU sanctions were announced late on Monday.
The Kremlin has denied asking China to use military equipment in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “Russia has its own ability to continue operations” and that it was “appearing as planned and would be completed on time and in full.”
Shortly before dawn on Tuesday, major explosions erupted in Kyiv, while Russia stifled its progress on several fronts.
Elsewhere, a convoy of 160 civilian cars left the besieged port city of Mariupol along a designated humanitarian route, the city council reported, in a rare glimmer of hope that shattered homes and other buildings in a deadly siege in a week and a half. And the people left are desperate for food, water, heat and medicine.
The latest talks, held via video conference, were the fourth round involving high-level officials from both countries and the first in a week. Talks with an aide of the President of Ukraine ended on Monday without any success after several hours Volodymyr Zelensky It said the negotiators took “a technical break” and planned to meet again on Tuesday.
Both sides had expressed some optimism over the past few days. mykhailo podolyakiZelensky’s aide tweeted that negotiators would discuss “peace, ceasefire, immediate withdrawal of troops and security guarantees”.
Previous discussions held personally in Belarus did not lead to any permanent humanitarian routes or agreements to end the fighting.
In Washington, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said the Biden administration supports Ukraine’s participation in talks with Russia, but the Russian President Vladimir Putin Shows signs of de-escalating to demonstrate good faith.
Overall, nearly all Russian military offensives were halted after making little progress over the weekend, according to a senior US defense official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the Pentagon’s assessment. The official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the center of Kyiv.
The official said the Russian military has fired more than 900 missiles but Ukraine’s airspace is still disputed, with Russia not achieving total air superiority.
Ukrainian officials said the Russians attacked an airplane factory in Kyiv, killing two people, sparking a massive fire. The Antonov factory is Ukraine’s largest aircraft plant and produces many of the world’s largest cargo aircraft.
Russian artillery fire also targeted a nine-story apartment building in the city’s northern Obolonsky district, killing two more people, officials said.
Ukraine’s emergency agency said Russian airstrikes near a Ukrainian checkpoint caused widespread damage in the Kyiv city neighborhood, killing one person.
Katerina Lott said she was in her apartment as her child was doing homework when they heard a loud explosion and ran for shelter.
“The child became hysterical. Our windows and balcony were broken. A part of the floor fell down,” she said. “It was very, very scary.”
In an area outside Kyiv, Fox News reporter Benjamin Hall was injured and hospitalized while reporting, the network said.
In Russia, the main evening news program live on state television was briefly interrupted by a woman who walked into the studio holding a poster against the war. The OVD-Info website, which tracks political arrests, said she was an employee of Channel 1 who was taken into police custody.
Officials said a town councilor from Brovry, east of Kyiv, was killed in fighting there. Local officials said shells also hit the Kyiv suburbs of Irpin, Buka and Hostomel, which have seen some of the worst fighting in Russia’s stalled attempt to capture the capital.
Air strikes were reported across the country, including in the southern city of Mykolaiv and the northern city of Chernihiv, where heat was knocking over most of the city. Explosions also occurred overnight around the Russian-held Black Sea port of Kherson.
Nine people were killed in a rocket attack on a TV tower in the western village of Antopol, according to the region’s governor.
In the eastern city of Kharkiv, firefighters put out the smoldering remains of a four-story residential building. It was not clear whether there were casualties.
In Mariupol, where the war has caused some of the greatest suffering, the city council did not say how many people were in the convoy of cars headed west to the city of Zaporizhzhya. But it said there appeared to be a ceasefire on the route.
Previous efforts to evacuate civilians and provide humanitarian aid to the southern city of 430,000 were thwarted by fighting.
Ukraine’s military said on Monday it had foiled an attempt by Russian forces to take control of Mariupol, who were forced to retreat. Satellite images from Maxar Technologies show fires burning across the city, with many high-rise buildings heavily damaged or destroyed.
The Kremlin-backed leader of the Russian territory of Chechnya said on a messaging app that Chechen fighters were leading the attack on Mariupol.
Robert Mardini, director general of the International Committee of the Red Cross, said the war had become “no less than a nightmare” for those living in the besieged cities, and called for safe corridors and humanitarian aid to evacuate civilians. In.
“The situation cannot continue like this,” he said. “History is watching what is happening in Mariupol and other cities.”
The Associated Press has learned that a pregnant woman, who became a symbol of Ukraine’s anguish when she was taken from a bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol last week, has died with her baby.
Mariupol residents, including Natalia Koldash, rushed to take shelter inside a building on Sunday as an unidentified plane passed over.
“We don’t have any information at all,” Koldash said. “We don’t know anything. It’s like we’re living in a dense forest.”
Associated Press video showed a damaged residential building and debris from another building that a young man named Dima described as an elementary school.
“There was no army in this school,” he said. “It’s not clear why it was killed.”
The Russian military said 20 civilians were killed by a ballistic missile launched by Ukrainian forces in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine. The claim could not be independently verified.
The United Nations has recorded at least 596 civilian deaths since Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, although it believes the real toll is much higher. The United Nations has called for Europe’s biggest refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 2.8 million people leaving their homes in Poland and other neighboring countries.
Russia’s military is larger and better equipped than Ukraine’s, but its troops have faced strong resistance from weapons supplied by the West.
During a meeting in Rome with a senior Chinese diplomat, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan warned China against helping Russia.
Two administrative officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information, said China had signaled to Moscow to provide military aid to Ukraine and financial assistance to help stave off the effects of Western sanctions. Will be ready, which includes the fourth set. The EU sanctions were announced late on Monday.
The Kremlin has denied asking China to use military equipment in Ukraine.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that “Russia has its own ability to continue operations” and that it was “appearing as planned and would be completed on time and in full.”