Russia’s navy forces have saved up their punishing marketing campaign to seize Ukraine’s capital with combating and artillery hearth in Kyiv’s suburbs, whilst Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a brand new spherical of talks on Monday.
The assaults round Kyiv got here a day after Russia escalated its offensive by shelling areas near the Polish border.
Within the jap metropolis of Kharkiv, firefighters doused the stays of a four-storey residential constructing on a avenue of flats and outlets. Ukrainian emergency providers stated a strike hit the constructing, leaving smouldering piles of wooden and steel. It was unclear whether or not there have been casualties.
The surrounded southern metropolis of Mariupol, the place the battle has produced a few of the biggest human struggling, remained reduce off regardless of earlier talks on creating support or evacuation convoys.
A pregnant lady and her child died in Mariupol after Russia bombed the maternity hospital the place she was meant to present beginning.
Russia’s invasion, launched on February 24, has compelled practically 2.8 million folks to flee Ukraine. 1000’s of civilians and troopers have been killed.