Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of besieged port city Mariupol.
KYIV - Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky made a fresh appeal for talks with Moscow on Saturday, while Russia said its soldiers had entered the centre of besieged port city Mariupol.
The official added that Russian forces had made no further progress into the northeastern city of Kharkiv, which they have encircled, and that Ukrainians were also defending the northern city of Chernihiv. On Friday, the council said one person had been badly wounded, but there were no dead, the only casualty tally given so far.
The Russian defence ministry said the strike was a "high-precision" attack on Ukrainian military infrastructure. In the nearly two-hour phone call, Xi said that war is "in no one's interest", but showed no sign of giving in to US pressure to join Western condemnation of Russia. Undeterred by reports of military setbacks or international condemnation, Putin held a large triumphalist rally in a Moscow football stadium on Friday featuring a sea of Russian flags, pro-Kremlin pop stars and chants of "Russia! Russia! Russia!"
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