KYIV – As Moscow bore down on Kyiv and officials put the toll of civiliandead at more than 350, the two sides agreed to sit down for talks.
The startling development comes on the day when Ukrainian PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskiy agreed to peace talks with Moscow on the Belarus border.
Meanwhile, the conflict did not stop late into Sunday, as the EU mullsstern sanctions on Russia for the invasion and closed its airspace toRussian aircraft. Officials also restricted Russian state media outletsoperating inside the bloc and agreed to buy arms and ammunition for thewar-hit country.
Russian army entered Ukraine’s second-largest city Kharkiv as the capitalrecovered from a day of heavy shelling and fighting.
Amid the negotiations and sanctions from the Western bloc, Putin putRussia’s nuclear deterrent on high alert.
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Following the development, the US said the Russian president was escalatingthe war with dangerous rhetoric and termed it as the biggest assault on aEuropean state since World War Two.
As the US expressed concerns, the 27-nation bloc decided for the first timein its history to supply weapons to the war-hit nation.
On the other hand, Russian armed forces continued to advance in the south,threatening a major port, and in the north, where they were continuingtheir drive toward Ukraine’s capital.
