Tens of thousands were evacuated from the besieged port city of Mariupol. Meanwhile the UN said 3 million refugees have now fled Ukraine.
It's day 20 of Russia's war in Ukraine, which was launched by Vladimir Putin when Russian forces invaded Ukraine on 24 February.
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20,000 people were evacuated from the besieged port city of Mariupol, a Ukrainian official said.
The number of refugees to flee Ukraine has now reached 3 million, says the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
- Kyiv's mayor has imposed a 35-hour curfew on the city calling it a "dangerous and difficult moment" for the capital, after two people were killed in a Tuesday morning bombing at an apartment building in the city.
- The Polish, Czech and Slovenia prime ministers travelled to Ukraine for talks, and to show "unequivocal support" from the EU.
- President Zelenskyy has used a new video message to urge Russian troops to surrender, telling them they "have a chance to live" if they stop fighting.
- Ukrainian and Russian negotiators are set to meet again on Wednesday via videoconference to continue talks to end the conflict.
- The Pentagon says nearly all of Russia's military offensives remain stalled and made little progress over the weekend. A senior US defence official said Russian troops were still about 15 kilometres from the centre of Kyiv.
Nearly 15,000 Russians detained for protesting war, US claims
"We support the voices of the people of Russia who are calling for an end to this war, who refuse to let their principled views be silenced, who refuse to let a new Iron Curtain descend again around Russia," said spokesman Ned Price on Tuesday.
A protester interrupted a state-run TV broadcast on Monday evening with a sign that denounced Russian propaganda and the war in Ukraine. She was detained shortly afterwards.
'Room for compromise' in Russia-Ukraine negotiations, says Ukrainian presidential advisor
He added however that there are "fundamental contradictions". Talks will continue tomorrow via video link.
Polish prime minister posts photo of Czech, Slovenian and Polish leaders in Kyiv
"It is here, in war-torn Kyiv, that history is being made. It is here, that freedom fights against the world of tyranny. It is here that the future of us all hangs in the balance," Morawiecki said.
Ukraine: 20,000 people evacuated from besieged port city of Mariupol
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Joe Biden to join EU leaders for in-person summit
That same day, he will also attend a NATO summit in the Belgian capital.Biden’s Europe trip comes as the situation inside Ukraine deteriorates and Western sanctions impose a new raft of sanctions against Russia.
Throughout the conflict, Biden has been in close contact with European allies to ensure a coordinated and united response against Vladimir Putin.
The EU summit was already scheduled to take place on 24 and 25 March to discuss the situation in Ukraine. Biden’s in-person visit was first reported by Reuters and later confirmed by a EU official.
Russia leaves Council of Europe before possible expulsion
The organisation is a human rights watchdog bringing 47 nations on the continent together including Russia since 1996.
The withdrawal means that Russian citizens will not longer benefit from the European Court of Human Rights, the judicial arm of the Council of Europe.
Turkish foreign minister to travel to Moscow
Turkey’s foreign minister is travelling to Moscow as part of efforts to secure a cease-fire.
Mevlut Cavusoglu would hold talks in Moscow on Wednesday before travelling to Ukraine for talks on Thursday, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday.
Erdogan also said the Polish President Andrzej Duda would be visiting Turkey on Wednesday for talks expected to focus on the crisis.
Last week the Russian and Ukrainian foreign ministers met on the sidelines of a diplomacy forum organised by Turkey, although their talks failed to produce a breakthrough.
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Georgia is 'not in the same situation' as NATO countries, president tells Euronews
"Georgia, having part of the territory occupied, being on the frontline, does not exactly behave exactly as a country that is a member of NATO and is protected in many different ways," Salome Zourabichvili, Georgia's president, told Euronews as she insisted that the country is not appeasing Russia in its policies.
"There is no need for Georgia to be putting some forms of provocation that could be used later on," she added.
But Zourabichvili insisted that there is "solidarity" and "full support" for Ukraine and expressed "her admiration" for Ukrainian resistance in the face of "this terrible aggression".
The invasion of Ukraine has prompted protests in Georgia, which faced a Russian invasion in 2008. There are rising fears that it could be a future target for Putin.
The government sped up an application for EU membership following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
"I'm very hopeful that there will be a new window of opportunity that will be less bureaucratic, more political," for joining the EU, Zourabichvili told Euronews.
She said that Georgia needed to maintain ties with the European Union and unity within the country.
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Russia's anti-war TV protester fined 30,000 rubles
She was convicted of committing an administrative offence but still faces criminal charges that could put her in prison for several years.
Kremlin introduces sanctions against President Biden, other US officials
The Russian Foreign Ministry says that US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and other top Biden administration officials have been put on the Russian sanctions list.
The ministry said in Tuesday’s statement that the measure is a response to the US sanctions against the Russian leadership.
At the same time, it noted that Russia might not renounce official contacts with the US officials targeted by the sanctions if such connections are in the country’s national interests.
Fox News cameraman killed near Kyiv, US outlet confirms
A Fox News cameraman was killed while covering the war in Ukraine, the US television network announced on Tuesday.
Pierre Zakrzewski was accompanying journalist Benjamin Hall, who was wounded when their vehicle came under fire Monday in Horenka, near Kyiv, Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott said in a statement.
Ukraine won't be able to join NATO, Zelenskyy says
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the country realizes that it can’t join NATO.
Speaking Tuesday to representatives of the UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF), Zelenskyy said that “we heard for years about the allegedly open doors” of NATO, but “we have already heard that we won’t be able to join”.
He added that “it’s the truth we must recognize, and I’m glad that our people are starting to realize that and count on themselves and our partners who are helping us.”
The JEF may consist of Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway.
Zelenskyy again urged Western allies to provide Ukraine with warplanes.
NATO believes Croatia drone was unarmed
Belarusian president rejects 'attempts to draw' his country into war with Ukraine
President Alexander Lukashenka said on Tuesday that Belarus had intercepted a missile fired at it two days ago from Ukraine but that it would resist what he called attempts to draw it into the conflict across the border.
The Ukrainian government has warned of a possible false-flag operation by Russia that would be used as a pretence to involve Belarus in the war. However, the country has already been used as a staging area for the Russian invasion that began on 24 February.
Meanwhile, the constitutional changes passed at the recent referendum in Belarus came into effect on Tuesday, allowing the country to host or own nuclear weapons on its territory.
The opposition and the civil society have contested the referendum results, and the country and Lukashenka's regime have been under stringent sanctions by the West, with the latest set doled out for Minsk's support for the Kremlin in the war against Ukraine.
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Thousands of vehicles leave Mariupol via 'humanitarian corridor'
EU praises 'brave moral stance' of Russian journalist
Curfew for Kyiv in 'dangerous and difficult moment'
Ukraine refugee numbers hit 3 million
The number of people who have fled Ukraine since the beginning of the Russian military's invasion of the country has now reached 3 million, a spokesman for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday in Geneva.
"We have now reached the 3 million mark in terms of population movements out of Ukraine," IOM spokesman Paul Dillon said at a regular UN press briefing.
Separately, the UN's refugee agency has the number at 2.95 million.
UK MoD: Kremlin might try to set up pro-Russian government in Kherson
Antopol TV tower death toll rises to 19
Local authorities say the number of people killed in a Russian rocket attack on a TV tower in western Ukraine has risen to 19.
The Rivne regional government posted on its Facebook page Tuesday that 19 people were killed and nine were injured in the strike on the TV tower in Antopol, a village outside the city of Rivne.
The village is only about 160 kilometres from the border of NATO member Poland and comes as Russia presses its invasion of Ukraine.
Initial casualty reports had put the death toll from Monday’s TV tower attack at nine.
EU sanctions against Russia expand to cover luxury goods
The luxury ban targets a vast catalogue of products worth over €300 that includes, among other articles, clothing, footwear, leather, fashion accessories, pearls, jewellery, gold, silversmith, diamonds, suitcases, handbags, purses, wallets, wigs,
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Polish, Czech and Slovenian PMs visiting Kyiv
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At least two dead in Kyiv apartment building strike
Russian anti-war protester interrupts state TV news broadcast
Video footage posted by multiple media organisations and journalists showed the woman holding a sign that read "Stop the war. Don't trust the propaganda. They lie to you here" in front of Russia's Channel One news presenter Yekaterina Andreyeva.
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Russia 'made small territorial gains on March 14', says Institute of War
"Russian forces continue to assemble reinforcements and attempt to improve logistical support in both the Kyiv and southern operational directions.
New Zealand will issue thousands of visas for Ukraine refugees
There are approximately 16000 NZ residents who were born in Ukraine and they will have the right to sponsor family members for this special visa category which allows them to work and send their children to school.
“New Zealand was one of the first countries to give humanitarian support to Ukrainians when Russia invaded, and these latest measures demonstrate New Zealand’s ongoing concern and compassionate approach over the suffering being caused to Ukrainians" Minister Faafoi said.
Pentagon: Most of Russia's offensives in Ukraine remain stalled
A senior American official at the Pentagon in Washington says nearly all of Russia's military offensives in Ukraine remain stalled, after making little progress over the weekend.
The assessment comes as US Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin arrives in Brussels on Tuesday for talks with NATO counterparts. He will also visit Slovakia and Bulgaria this week.
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Russia and Ukraine to hold more talks on Tuesday
The two sides had expressed some optimism in the past few days. Mykhailo Podoliak, the aide to Zelenskyy, tweeted that the negotiators would discuss “peace, cease-fire, immediate withdrawal of troops & security guarantees.”
Previous discussions, held in person in Belarus, produced no lasting humanitarian routes or agreements to end the fighting.
In Washington, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that while the Biden administration supports Ukraine’s participation in the talks with Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to show signs of de-escalating in order to demonstrate good faith.