days into russia's invasion of the country plus continuing the ukrainian capital and
other major cities talked her on the way between delegations from ukraine and russia the meeting is
not a summit between the president our iran is standing by on the line for us
leon first bring us up to speed on what's happening in kiev well daniel russian news agency
interface said on monday russian forces seized two small cities in southeastern ukraine and
the area around a nuclear power plant but ran into stiff resistance elsewhere interfax also reported
that ukraine denied that the nuclear plant had fallen into russian hands president zielinski
speaking to the uk prime minister boris johnson said the current 24-hour period would be crucial
ukraine's intelligence service reported blasts monday morning in the ukrainian capital of
keys and the country's second biggest city kharkiv before then kiev had been quiet for a few hours
overnight russian missiles also struck another northern city studymoor rayon at this point what
can you tell us about casualties well daniel the full extent of the casualties in ukraine
is very hard to confirm the picture of a woman with a bloodied face has become an iconic image
of the war in ukraine this woman whose suffering summed up the horror of the conflict has now died
according to ukraine's health ministry as of sunday the number of civilian deaths is
at least 350 including at least 14 children it also reported that more than 1
680 people have been wounded and according to the u.n relief agency over 500 000 ukrainian
civilians mainly women and children have fled into neighboring countries the eu said
countries must prepare for millions of ukrainian refugees but some ukrainians are returning home
from abroad to help defend their country poland's border agency said on sunday that
since the conflict began some 22 thousand people have crossed over into ukraine like this man
i woke up and i cried i talked to my family and i cried and i just decided to myself that i can't
i can't watch that and i can't just stay in poland and let russians
destroy our independence destroy our cities kill our citizens
kill our children kill our elderly people so summing up all those circumstances
i meant i made a decision to come back to ukraine fight and also ukraine agreed to talk with russian
delegations at the belarusian border on monday what can we expect to come out of these sessions
right so as you said according to ukrainian president vladimir zelinski's office on sunday
ukraine and russian delegations agreed to hold talks on monday without preconditions
at a venue near the belarusian border they reportedly started the meeting several hours ago
according to the ukrainian president's office ukraine's goal for the talks was an
immediate cease-fire and the withdrawal of russian forces from ukraine these are the first talks
since moscow launched its full-scale invasion of ukraine last week and come after russian president
vladimir putin orders his country's deterrence forces including nuclear arms to be placed on
high alert meanwhile after agreeing to talks with russia the ukrainian foreign minister said
in a televised speech that his country will not give up a single inch of territory take a listen
it is obvious i think everyone agrees now after this week that the goal of russia is to destroy
ukraine as a state is to destroy ukrainians as a nation but we will not fall we will not stop
or get tired this is people's war it's not a war between one state and another it's a war between
president putin and the people of ukraine that's all i have for now back to you daniel