Kyiv (AFP) - Here are the latest developments in Russia's war in Ukraine:
Russia, Ukraine confirm video-conference talks for Monday
Talks between the two sides are to resume Monday, say Ukrainian negotiators and the Kremlin, after both sides hail progress at earlier rounds aimed at ending more than two weeks of fighting.
- Over 2,100 killed in Mariupol -
More than 2,100 residents of Ukraine's besieged city of Mariupol have been killed since hostilities began, the local authorities say, raising the toll by almost 1,000 since Wednesday.
Mariupol faces "a worst-case scenario" if the warring parties do not urgently reach a "concrete humanitarian agreement", the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) warns.
UN agencies condemn attacks on health care
UN agencies call for an immediate ceasefire and an end to attacks on health care professionals and facilities in Ukraine, which have killed 12 people, describing them as acts of "unconscionable cruelty".
Pope urges end to 'massacre'
Pope Francis issues a plea for an end to the "massacre" in Ukraine, saying there is no justification for attacks on civilians.
35 dead near Polish border
Thirty-five people die and more than 130 are injured when Russian troops launch air strikes on a military training ground outside Ukraine's western city of Lviv, near the border with NATO member Poland, local officials say.
Battles rage outside Kyiv
Fighting rages in the Kyiv suburbs as Russian forces advance ever closer to the capital.Only roads to the south remain open and Kyiv is preparing to mount a "relentless defence", according to the Ukrainian president's office.
Bucha to the northwest is entirely held by Russian forces along with parts of Irpin, Ukrainian soldiers at the scene tell AFP.
'Foreign mercenaries' killed
Russia says that an airstrike it carried out in Ukraine, near the Polish border, killed "180 foreign mercenaries" who had joined Kyiv's army in its fight against Russia.
US journalist killed
A US journalist is shot dead in Irpin, medics and witnesses say, becoming the first foreign reporter killed since Russia's invasion.Papers found on the reporter's body identify him as 50-year-old video documentary maker Brent Renaud.
Power restored to Chernobyl
Electricity has been restored at Ukraine's retired Chernobyl nuclear power plant that was seized by Russian forces in the first days of the invasion, say energy officials in Kyiv.
Turkey asks for Russian help
Turkey has asked Russia to help evacuate its citizens stranded in Mariupol, Ankara's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu says.
Mykolaiv strike
Eleven people are killed in a strike on the southern city of Mykolaiv, the regional governor says.The city lies on the road to the port city of Odessa, around 100 kilometres (62 miles) away.
Attacks in east
A senior Ukrainian police officer accuses Russia of using phosphorus chemical bombs in the eastern Donbas region, where a separate air strike on a monastery sheltering civilians wounds 30.
Hundreds arrested in Russian protests
Russian police detain more than 800 people across 37 cities for protesting Moscow's "military operation" in Ukraine.
'Quit Russia', Zelensky tells tech companies
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeals to Western tech companies, to pull out of Russia and end support for their products.
Nearly 2.7 million flee
Almost 2.7 million people have fled the war in Ukraine, more than 100,000 of them in the past 24 hours, the UN says.More than half have gone to Poland.
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