Desk Report
Publish: 14 Mar 2022, 10:36 pm
A Ukrainian police officer stood guard in Kyiv on Monday || Photo: Collected
Diplomatic efforts to end
Russia’s war in Ukraine resumed Monday after a Russian shell struck a
residential building in northern Kyiv, killing two people, according to
Ukrainian authorities.
Russian and Ukrainian negotiators
met by video. U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan was also meeting his
Chinese counterpart in Rome after warning Beijing to resist what Washington has
described as Russian calls for Chinese help in the war.
Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky, said on Monday afternoon that the talks
between Kyiv and Moscow had paused and would resume on Tuesday.
“A technical pause has been taken
in the negotiations until tomorrow. For additional work in the working
subgroups and clarification of individual definitions,” Mr. Podolyak wrote on
Twitter. “Negotiations continue.”
Mr. Podolyak had said earlier the
negotiators would focus on achieving a cease-fire, the immediate withdrawal of
Russian troops and security guarantees for the country.
Nearly three weeks into the war,
Russia has seized territory in the south of Ukraine but has been fought to a
standstill around the capital, Kyiv, and elsewhere. Increasingly, its forces
have resorted to bombing residential areas and civilian infrastructure in an
effort to wear down Ukrainian resistance.
On Monday, two people were killed
and 12 were wounded after a fire started in a nine-story building in the Obolon
district of Kyiv, the Ukrainian military said. Ukraine’s state emergency
service said the building was hit by enemy shelling.
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