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Members of delegations from Ukraine and Russia, together with Russian presidential aide Vladimir Medinsky (second left), Ukrainian presidential aide Mykhailo Podolyak (second proper), Volodymyr Zelensky’s “Servant of the Individuals” lawmaker Davyd Arakhamia (third proper), maintain talks in Belarus’ Gomel area on Monday, following the Russian army operation in Ukraine. — AFP/VNA Photograph

MOSCOW — Negotiators from Ukraine and Russia will return to their capital cities for consultations and have plans for recent talks, each side introduced on Monday after assembly for his or her first talks because the outbreak of conflict final week.

“The delegations are returning to their capitals for consultations and have mentioned the potential of assembly for a second spherical of negotiations quickly,” Ukrainian negotiator Mikhailo Podolyak stated.

“We agreed to maintain the negotiations going,” the Russian delegation head, Vladimir Medinsky stated.

Russia shelled the Ukrainian metropolis of Kharkiv because it pressed on with its army operation on Tuesday.

After their first talks because the conflict began didn’t safe a breakthrough on Monday, Russia continued to focus on residential areas and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky known as for a worldwide ban on Russian planes and ships.

“We should shut entry for this state in all ports, all canals and all of the world’s airports,” he stated on Fb.

Russian President Vladimir Putin had earlier outlined Moscow’s calls for for ending the invasion, together with recognition of Russian sovereignty over Crimea and Ukraine’s demilitarisation.

French chief Emmanuel Macron spoke by telephone with Putin and stated it was essential to instantly stop hearth in Ukraine the place Russian armed forces are conducting a army operation, the Elysee Palace stated on Monday.

“In reference to the beginning of negotiations between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations, the President of the Republic requested that the next be noticed on the bottom: a cessation of all strikes and assaults on civilians and their locations of residence, the preservation of all civilian infrastructure, guaranteeing safety on highways, particularly south of Kiev,” the Elysee stated in a press release. The assertion asserts that Putin “assured he was prepared to commit himself on these three counts.”

The Russian Protection Ministry stated earlier that Russian troops will not be focusing on Ukrainian cities, however are incapacitating Ukrainian army infrastructure with precision strikes, and due to this fact there aren’t any threats to the civilian inhabitants.

The Chinese language authorities has urged the events to the battle in Ukraine to return to the trail of negotiations and implement a political settlement on the Ukraine disaster, Chinese language Overseas Ministry Spokesman Wang Wenbin stated at an everyday briefing on Monday.

“We name on all events to return to the trail of diplomatic negotiations and a political settlement as quickly as doable. We additionally counsel enterprise a complete settlement of the Ukraine downside by negotiations and consultations,” he stated.

He additionally famous that China is monitoring the state of affairs in Ukraine and took word of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s determination to place Russian deterrence forces on particular alert.

“We name on all events involved to show calmness and restraint and to keep away from additional escalation,” he pressured.

As a substitute, the world has responded with an intensifying diplomatic, financial, cultural and sporting backlash, with Moscow coming underneath hearth on the UN Basic Meeting and the Worldwide Legal Courtroom (ICC) opening a conflict crimes investigation.

“I’m glad that there’s a affordable foundation to imagine that each alleged conflict crimes and crimes in opposition to humanity have been dedicated in Ukraine” since 2014, ICC prosecutor Karim Khan stated in a press release.

Russia additionally confronted pressing calls at a unprecedented UN Basic Meeting debate to finish its “unprovoked” and “unjustified” assault, which has provoked a large diplomatic, financial, cultural and sporting backlash.

Contained in the Basic Meeting corridor on Monday, UN Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres pleaded: “The combating in Ukraine should cease. Sufficient is sufficient.”

It adopted Putin’s telephone name with Macron the place the Russian chief “pressured {that a} settlement is feasible provided that Russia’s reliable safety pursuits are unconditionally taken into consideration”, stated the Kremlin.

Preventing continued throughout the dialogue, with no less than 11 individuals killed by Russian assaults in Kharkiv and Russian missile hearth on a number of residential buildings.

Explosions had been additionally reported in and round Brovary, a metropolis on the outskirts of the capital, Kyiv.

Russian hearth killed a number of civilians, together with youngsters, in Kharkiv and Russian armoured automobiles and tanks are “in every single place” across the metropolis, stated mayor Igor Terekhov, quoted by Ukrainian media.

Greater than 350 civilians, together with 14 youngsters, have been killed throughout the invasion, Ukraine says, whereas greater than half 1,000,000 individuals have fled the nation.

In Kyiv, many had been making ready for a recent assault with makeshift barricades dotting the streets.

The Russian military urged Ukrainians to depart Kyiv “freely” on one freeway out forward of what’s an anticipated Russian offensive to seize the capital.

The Worldwide Atomic Vitality Company stated it was “gravely involved” as Russian forces superior in the direction of Ukraine’s largest nuclear plant, strongly warning in opposition to any army motion that would threaten the Zaporizhzhia facility.

A Russian ruble coin is pictured with US greenback payments and a one greenback coin in Moscow. Russia’s ruble hit its lowest degree in opposition to the greenback for greater than two years, a day after the most recent spherical of punitive US sanctions took impact. The ruble’s worth dropped to 69 in opposition to the greenback for the primary time since April 2016, when the shocks from the primary Western sanctions over Russia’s actions in Ukraine had been nonetheless being felt. — AFP/VNA Photograph

Ruble plummets

Western nations have moved to more and more isolate Russia, with the US expelling 12 members of Moscow’s UN mission from America for being “intelligence operatives”.

Canada introduced a ban on Russian oil imports on Monday.

The European Union and its allies had been additionally making ready extra sanctions in opposition to Russia within the coming days to “increase the price” of conflict in Ukraine, an aide to Macron informed reporters.

And Turkey stated it could implement a world treaty to restrict ships passing by the Dardanelles and Bosphorus straits, a transfer requested by Ukraine to dam the transit of Russian warships.

The Russian ruble crashed to a report low as sanctions imposed by the West over the weekend had an instantaneous influence in Moscow, forcing the central financial institution to greater than double its key rate of interest to twenty per cent.

Putin additionally introduced emergency measures supposed to prop up the ruble, together with banning residents from transferring cash overseas.

Lengthy queues

Lengthy queues for groceries snaked by the streets of Kyiv on Monday after a strict 36-hour army curfew was lifted and volunteer militias discovered learn how to make home-made explosives.

In the meantime many Russians raced to withdraw money.

Western defence officers and the Kyiv authorities say Ukrainian troops have to date stored the nation’s main cities out of Russian fingers regardless of incursions within the capital and Kharkiv over the weekend.

Nonetheless the small southern metropolis of Berdyansk has been occupied, Ukraine stated.

Moscow claimed it had “gained air superiority over all the territory of Ukraine”, whereas accusing Ukrainian troops of utilizing civilians as human shields.

Nonetheless Olivier Kempf, a safety analyst on the Basis for Strategic Analysis assume tank, stated that Russian forces had been “not slowed down”.

“That is conflict, so there are difficulties. They could have logistics points. However no matter what we’re informed, they’re making progress,” he stated.

“Solely in video video games do you conquer a rustic in two days.”

Kicked out of World Cup 

The weekend featured a momentous collection of bulletins from Europe, with Germany unveiling a historic change to its defence insurance policies, and the EU saying it could purchase and provide arms to Ukraine, the primary such transfer in its historical past.

On Monday the European Union stated it could add Russian oligarchs and the Kremlin’s spokesman to its sanctions blacklist whereas historically impartial Switzerland stated it could undertake the bloc’s sanctions.

Nonetheless the EU poured chilly water on Zelensky’s request for “quick” membership to the bloc, saying the method to affix takes years.

The response from the world of sports activities additionally gathered steam, as Russia was expelled from the World Cup and the nation’s golf equipment and nationwide groups had been suspended from all worldwide soccer competitions “till additional discover”, FIFA and UEFA stated.

Poland has taken in additional than half of the five hundred,000 individuals who have fled Ukraine, in keeping with the UN.

Katerina Zaporojets, a laboratory employee from the central metropolis of Cherkassy, stated it took her 24 hours to reach on the western Shegyni border put up – and she is going to seemingly wait one other 48 hours earlier than crossing.

“The journey was actually arduous,” the 31-year-old stated. “It is calmer right here, however the drive was actually scary.” — AFP/TASS