A woman exits a badly damaged apartment building that was hit by a Russian shell.
(Photo: IMAGO/ZUMA Wire)
Duisburg After negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on a ceasefire failed again, the countries’ negotiators postponed further talks to this Tuesday. The interruption until Tuesday is a technical break for talks in working groups and a “clarification of individual definitions,” explained Ukrainian presidential adviser Mykhailo Podoliak.
Ukraine demands an end to the war and a withdrawal of Russian troops. Moscow is demanding that Kyiv recognize the annexed Black Sea peninsula of Crimea as Russian territory and the eastern Ukrainian separatist areas as independent states, and that Ukraine declare its neutrality.
On Monday afternoon, Russia threatened to seize major cities in Ukraine and launch attacks on population centers. “At the beginning of the operation, the Russian President instructed the Defense Ministry to refrain from an immediate attack on major population centers, including Kiev,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in Moscow on Monday, according to the Interfax agency.
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