- High-level talks between Kyiv and Moscow are taking place at the Ukraine-Belarus border.
- 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.
- Moscow shifts its nuclear forces to a high alert footing.
Here are all the latest updates:
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17 mins ago (14:59 GMT)
Russia-Ukraine war: What is Putin’s endgame?
As Russia’s war on Ukraine continues, questions about what President Vladimir Putin is trying to achieve are mounting.
Read Al Jazeera’s analysis on the Russian leader’s possible aims here.
18 mins ago (14:57 GMT)
Switzerland adopts EU sanctions against Russia
Switzerland’s president says his country, which is traditionally neutral, will adopt all of the sanctions imposed by the European Union on Russia.
“This is a big step for Switzerland,” Ignazio Cassis told a news conference after the Alpine nation had for days hesitated over whether to join with Western powers and move to economically punish Moscow for its assault on Ukraine.
Finance Minister Ueli Maurer told reporters that the holdings of those figuring on Brussels’ blacklist, including President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov had been “frozen with immediate effect.”
32 mins ago (14:43 GMT)
IOC calls for Russian, Belarusian athletes to be banned from sporting events
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) says its executive board has recommended that international sports federations ban Russian and Belarusian athletes and officials from participating in events.
The board said in a statement that in cases where it proves impossible to prevent athletes from the two countries competing, such as if there is insufficient time to give notice or for other “organisational or legal reasons”, they should be prevented from doing so under their nations’ banner.
“No national symbols, colours, flags or anthems should be displayed,” it added.
52 mins ago (14:23 GMT)
Kharkiv strikes ‘truly disturbing’: Al Jazeera reporter
Al Jazeera’s Jonah Hull, reporting from the city of Lviv, in western Ukraine, says reports of deadly Russian strikes in the eastern city of Kharkiv are “truly disturbing”.
“[There have been] heavy attacks in the north east of the city on very compacted, densely populated civilian neighbourhoods, with lots of tall apartment buildings and so on,” Hull said.
“There is no question whatsoever that these are anything but targeted attacks on a civilian neighbourhood,” he added.
“There are lots of pictures [on social media] showing explosions and suggestions that grad rocket fire has been used, others that bombs have been dropped by the air, and there are lots of [videos showing] flashes that indicate secondary explosions and the use of cluster munitions in amongst all of that.”
1 hour ago (13:55 GMT)
Russia has internal replacement for SWIFT, central bank says
Russia has a system that can replace the SWIFT global payments system internally, the governor of the country’s central bank says.
Elvira Nabiullina told a news conference that all banks in Russia will fulfil their obligations and all funds on their accounts are secured.
The United States, EU and United Kingdom have all agreed to block selected Russian banks from the SWIFT system, which facilitates moving money around thousands of banks and other financial institutions worldwide.
2 hours ago (13:18 GMT)
Putin slams West as an ‘Empire of Lies’
Putin has denounced the West an “Empire of Lies” while discussing Russia’s economy with Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin and other top officials following the imposition of sweeping sanctions against Moscow, according to the Kremlin.
“[Mishustin] and I discussed this topic, naturally bearing in mind the sanctions that the so-called Western community – as I called it in my speech, the ’empire of lies’ – is now trying to implement against our country,” a transcript of the meeting quoted Putin as saying.
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