3 KHARKIV, Ukraine — Russian and Ukrainian delegations held five hours of inconclusive talks near the Belarus border Monday, as heavy Russian bombardment continued in Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, and Western countries tightened their financial stranglehold on the Russian banking system. Amid what appeared to be sporadic missile strikes in Kyiv, satellite photographs showed a Russian column of troops and armored vehicles stretching for 17 miles heading southeast in the direction of the Ukraine capital. The United Nations refugee agency said that more than half a million Ukrainians, primarily women and children, had fled to neighboring countries seeking safety. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in a video posted late Monday, called the shelling of Kharkiv a “war crime” and the “deliberate destruction of people” in an areas where there are no military facilities. Calling for an international tribunal to judge Russia’s actions, he said, “No one in the world will forgive you for killing peaceful Ukrainian people.” He said that the border talks had been “synchronized” with the “brutal” attack on Kharkiv. After the two sides departed, Kremlin aide Vladimir Medinsky, the head of the Russian delegation, said that they found “certain points where we forecast common ground” and that they… Read full this story
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