Day eight of Russia's invasion of Ukraine saw continuous shelling of cities, talks between both countries and hundreds of thousand more refugees fleeing.
In the last 24 hours Kyiv was hit by a number of blasts and 22 people have been reported dead after air strikes hit schools in Chernihiv.
Refugees continue to cross Ukraine's borders with the total number reaching one million after just eight days. A number of people, including one man from Merseyside, were also seen walking into Ukraine to join the war.
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Here's a roundup of everything we know happened on day eight of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Direct talks with Putin "only way to stop war"
Ukraine's President Zelensky has asked Vladimir Putin for one-to-one talks, saying this is the only way to end the war.
He said: "We are not attacking Russia and we do not plan to attack it. What do you want from us? Leave our land.
"Sit down with me. Just not 30 metres away like with [French President Emmanuel Macron]," he added.
He also encouraged NATO to "send planes".
Talks end 'without results we hoped for' - Ukrainian negotiator
Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak says that "with a great regret" the latest talks between Russia and Ukraine "haven't achieved the results we were hoping for".
But he says the two sides agreed to continue negotiations in "the nearest future".
He said: "The only thing I can say is that we discussed the humanitarian aspect in details, because quite a lot of cities are now surrounded."
The sides have also reached an understanding on "jointly securing humanitarian corridors to evacuate peaceful civilians, and also on supplying medicine and food to the places of the most fierce fighting".
He adds there is a possibility, "I stress, with a possibility of a temporary ceasefire for the evacuation period in certain sectors".
At least 22 dead after air strikes in Chernihiv
The BBC is seeing reports of deaths and casualties in the northern city of Chernihiv, which has been subject to heavy shelling in recent days.
Ukraine's emergency state service (SES) reports 22 people have been found dead so far after air strikes hit residential buildings.
According to the BBC's Ukrainian Service, several high-rise buildings were also targeted during the shelling.
Nan stuck in Ukraine forced to sleep in chair in tower block basement
A woman is terrified for the safety of her sick mum as she is forced to sleep in a tower block basement in Ukraine.
Ella Hope moved to Wirral in 1996 to be with her husband and has lived in Wallasey ever since.
The 54-year-old said she "wants to cry" every moment as she watches Russia bombard her homeland and worries for her mum, Lena, 73.
Ella told the ECHO: "I haven't seen my mum for nearly three years because of lockdown. We would talk at least four times a week and in December she told me she was diagnosed with leukemia.
"I knew then I just had to see her, I had to go and be with her to help her."
Ian, from Merseyside, crosses the border into Ukraine to 'join the fight'
A Getty Images photographer caught this picture of a man who said his name is Ian, 61, who is from a town near Liverpool, but who did not want to be otherwise identified.
He said he was getting prepared to enter Ukraine to join the fight against the Russian army at the Medyka border crossing.
Ukraine's President Zelensky appealed to foreign nationals to join his army in the fight against Russia.
More than one million people have fled Ukraine since the invasion began
The number of refugees fleeing Ukraine has passed one million since the invasion began on Thursday, Thursday 24.
The UN has said more than 500,000 of these refugees have fled to Poland.
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