“Basic contradictions” in Ukraine-Russia talks. High 10 developments

A trio of japanese European leaders met Ukraine’s President in his besieged capital, in a defiant act of solidarity as Russian forces pressed in and air strikes claimed but extra lives within the metropolis underneath curfew.

Ukrainian negotiations group member Mykhailo Podolyak says there are “elementary contradictions” in talks aimed toward ending Russia’s navy assault. “We’ll proceed tomorrow. A really tough and viscous negotiation course of. There are elementary contradictions. However there’s actually room for compromise,” he mentioned.

President Zelensky renewed his requires a no-fly zone over Ukraine to “cease the bombing”. NATO allies, together with Canada, have rejected the proposal, fearing it could result in an enlargement of the battle.

Moscow’s envoys to the United Nations referred to as for a Safety Council vote on a decision it has drafted concerning the “deteriorating humanitarian state of affairs” in Ukraine, the place Russian troops have launched an all-out assault.

Russia’s international ministry introduced sanctions on US President Joe Biden and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Tuesday alongside a number of officers in a reciprocal response to Western measures.

The US Senate unanimously handed a decision condemning Russian President Vladimir Putin as a struggle prison, a uncommon present of unity within the deeply divided Congress.

An Irish cameraman for Fox Information and a Ukrainian working as a producer for the US tv community have been killed in preventing close to Kyiv, Fox Information mentioned. Two different Ukrainian journalists, in addition to a US documentary filmmaker, have additionally been killed, the Ukrainian parliament’s human rights chief Lyudmyla Denisova mentioned.

Round 20,000 folks managed to depart the besieged port metropolis of Mariupol by driving alongside a humanitarian hall agreed with Russian forces, a Ukrainian presidential aide mentioned

Greater than three million folks have fled Ukraine for the reason that begin of the invasion, the UN migration company IOM mentioned. Round half of them are minors.

Russia has drawn up lists of 40,000 fighters from the Syrian military and allied militias to be placed on standby for deployment in Ukraine, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights struggle monitor says.