Russia’s military forces have kept up their punishing campaign to capture Ukraine’s capital with fighting and artillery fire in Kyiv’s suburbs on the 19th day of the invasion. It comes after an air strike on a military base near the Polish border brought the war close to Nato’s doorstep.
In our latest round-up on Monday lunchtime (March 14), a new round of talks between Russian and Ukrainian officials has raised hopes that progress would be made in evacuating civilians from besieged Ukrainian cities and getting emergency supplies to areas without enough food, water and medicine.
Air raid sirens sounded in cities and towns all around the country overnight, from near the Russian border in the east to the Carpathian Mountains in the west, as fighting continued on the outskirts of Kyiv.
