- High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow end with no agreement except to keep talking.
- Russian artillery bombards residential districts of Ukraine’s second largest city Kharkiv, killing at least 11 people, Ukrainian officials say.
- The UN General Assembly holds the first emergency meeting in decades.
- The European Union agrees for the first time to jointly finance weapons deliveries to a country at war.
- Russia faces deepening isolation and economic turmoil as the United States and other Western nations hit it with an array of sanctions.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls the next 24 hours “crucial” for Ukraine.
- Ukraine’s military claims the pace of Russia’s assault has slowed.
- Civilian death toll now stands at 352 people, including 14 children, Ukraine’s health ministry says.
- The UN says over 500,000 people have fled Ukraine to neighbouring countries.
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