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🚨Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said peace talks with Russia are sounding more realistic, but more time is needed.

Ukrainian officials have raised hopes the war could end sooner than expected - possibly by May

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🔴Several explosions rocked Kyiv early on Wednesday, according to AFP journalists in the city.

Emergency services say two residential buildings were damaged and two people wounded
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➡️Drone footage appears to show a civilian motorist being shot by Russian soldiers just outside Kyiv after he got out of his car and put his hands up.

The incident happened a few kilometers west of Kyiv on the E40 expressway
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🔴Emergency services in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region said that at least 500 residents of the city of Kharkiv have been killed since Russia invaded on February 24
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🗣️Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of not showing a “serious commitment” to peace in a blow to ceasefire hopes.

The Russian leader told Charles Michel, the European Council president, that Kyiv had not met his demands
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🔴The UN's top court is set to rule later on Ukraine's urgent request for Russia to immediately halt its invasion, with Kyiv...

...claiming that Moscow falsely accused its pro-Western neighbour of genocide to justify the war
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Here's what happened overnight:

🔴Reports of another Russian general killed

🔴US Senate supports investigating Putin for war crimes

🔴More than 122,000 households sign up for refugee scheme
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🚨Russian forces are firing from Mariupol hospital with 500 patients and staff held hostage.

Troops stormed houses and rounded up 400 residents, forcing them into the southern city’s hospital number two alongside 100 patients and doctors
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⚠️The former head of MI6 said that only China's president Xi Jinping can influence Putin to stop his invasion into Ukraine.

He added that the situation in Ukraine is "seriously compounding the economic problems that China face"
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🚨Russian forces have targeted the southern Ukraine city of Zaporizhzhia, where thousands of refugees are taking shelter after escaping the besieged port city of Mariupol, regional officials say
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🔴There is "no way" that Ukraine will join Nato "any time soon", Boris Johnson has said

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❌Liz Truss said there was no guarantee sanctioned oligarchs like Roman Abramovich would be free to return to the UK after the Russian war with Ukraine ends
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Here is the Ukraine-Russia lunchtime briefing:
1⃣TV protester tells Russians: open your eyes to propaganda
2⃣UN's top court to rule on invasion
3⃣Train station housing thousands of refugees targeted
4⃣Drone footage shows Russian soldiers shooting civilian
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🔴 NEW: Kyiv wants 'Austria-style' neutrality deal to end war, claims Kremlin

Follow all the latest updates on our liveblog here 👇
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🔴The refugee minister has told MPs he expects "thousands of people" to arrive in the UK next week under the Homes for Ukraine sponsorship scheme
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Ukraine: Are hopes of a peace deal realistic?

@sophiecoe__ speaks to @VerityBowman, @Tony_Diver, @OliviaUtley and @DomNicholls

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🗣️Speaking to the US Congress, Zelensky has encouraged US citizens to "remember Pearl Harbour" and "remember September 11th" when thinking of the Ukrainian people.

"Our country experiences the same every day," he said
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"Russia has turned the Ukrainian sky into a source of death," Zelensky has said.

"I have a dream...Is this a lot to ask for, to ask for a no-fly zone over Ukraine?"
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🚨Russian forces have shot and killed 10 civilians standing in line for bread on Wednesday in Chernihiv, Ukraine, the US Embassy in Kyiv has said
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🔴Ukraine could become neutral state like Austria as Moscow and Kyiv 'near peace deal'.

The compromise would meet Putin's demand that Ukraine never joins Nato, writes @JamesCrisp6.

Read the full piece here 👇
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🇺🇸 US national security adviser Jake Sullivan has told General Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of the Russian Security Council "that if Russia is serious about diplomacy then Moscow should stop attacking Ukrainian cities and towns"

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🔴It is too early to disclose any set of potential agreements between Moscow and Kyiv on resolving the conflict, a Kremlin spokesman has said.

It comes after reports that Ukraine and Russia had made significant progress on a tentative 15-point peace plan
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🗣️ Nato looks to put 'substantially more forces' on eastern flank.

Military commanders have been tasked to come up with plans to bolster the alliance's eastern flank after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg said today
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🔴 NEW: Russia and Ukraine have reportedly drawn up a 15-point peace deal

Read more details from @JamesCrisp6 here ⬇️
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🇺🇦 Three people were killed and five wounded after shelling caused a fire at a market in the eastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's State Emergencies Service said

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❓ Who is Vladimir Medinsky, the former culture minister who is now Putin's chief negotiator in Ukraine peace talks?

James Kilner reports 👇
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🔴 Russian forces have bombed a theatre where civilians were sheltering in the besieged port of Mariupol, the city's council said today.

It added that the number of casualties was not yet known

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President Biden said that the US was sending more anti-aircraft, anti-armour weapons and drones to Ukraine.

He said the additional $800 million of security assistance would bring the total for the week to $1 billion

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🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russian forces have released the mayor of Melitopol who they detained last week, the Ukrainian President's chief of staff confirmed today.

Ukraine had said Mr Fedorov was kidnapped last Friday by Russian forces
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🎧ICYMI: Listen to today's 'Ukraine: The Latest' podcast here 👇

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🇺🇸 Western allies met today to discuss a task force set up to pursue Russian oligarchs and violators of sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion of Ukraine.

"We force will raise those costs even more," US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said
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🔴 Satellite images from Maxar Technologies, a US satellite company, show the word "children" in large Russian script painted on the ground outside the Mariupol Drama Theatre which was reportedly bombed this afternoon

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