Ukraine says the first round of talks with Russia about ending the fighting has concluded and that more talks could happen soon.

An aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin says talks with Ukrainian officials lasted nearly five hours.

“The delegations return to Kyiv and Moscow and will meet again “in the coming days.”
according to the English service Kyiv Independent

Meanwhile it is being reported that dozens of people have been killed and hundreds more wounded in rocket strikes by Russian forces on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Monday morning, the Ukrainian interior ministry has said.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has signed an application for Ukraine to join the European Union.Andrii Sybiha, head of Zelenskyy’s office, said on his official Facebook page that the documents “are on the way to Brussels.”

As the Russian Rouble fell to an all time low against the dollar Russia’s Central Bank has raised its key rate to an unprecedented 20% in desperate bid to shore up the ruble amid crippling sanctions

The measure follows a Western decision on Sunday to freeze Russia’s hard currency reserves, an unprecedented move that could have devastating consequences for the country’s financial stability

This morning The US has cut off the Russian central bank and sanctioned the state investment fund in a hard-hitting retaliation for the Ukraine invasion

Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN has compared Putin to Hitler:

“This war wasn’t provoked, it was chosen by someone who is right now sitting in a bunker. We know what happened with the person who sat in a bunker in Berlin in May 1945.”

A history museum in Ivankiv town, Kyiv Oblast, was destroyed by a Russian attack, according to Ustyna Stefanchuk, an art collector. The museum had about 25 works by famous Ukrainian artist Prymachenkoю

More than 500,000 people have fled Ukraine, the UN’s refugee agency has said

The U.K. Government is fast-tracking plans to tackle “dirty money” and expose foreign oligarchs who launder their wealth through the UK’s property market in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

The Defence Secretary Ben Wallace says that Vladimir Putin’s ordering of Russia’s nuclear deterrent forces to be put on high alert is “a big attempt to distract from his troubles in Ukraine”.

He warned that Russia’s invasion isn’t going to plan, but was concerned about what President Putin may do next

The BBC’s Nick Robinson reported that There was a 47km queue of cars waiting at the border between Ukraine & Poland last night.

“People told me they’d already been waiting for 2 days in bitterly cold conditions just to reach the border”

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