RUSSIA-UKRAINE LIVE: Russia warns of ‘intelligence infrastructure’ strike
RUSSIA-UKRAINE LIVE: ‘Explosions’ heard in Kyiv as Russian tank convoy continues advance, EU votes to recommend Ukraine’s candidate status and UN council meeting sees mass walkout
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Russia has warned it is about to strike ‘intelligence infrastructure’ in Kyiv after Ukraine clamed Vladimir Putin was presiding over ‘a terrorist state’.
Fears were raised of a dramatic escalation in Russia’s bombardment of the capital after a 40-mile convoy of tanks and artillery headed towards the city.
But the latest Ministry of Defence intelligence said the advance on Kyiv had made little progress over the past 24 hours, probably due to logistical problems.
On the sixth day of the conflict, it was claimed Russian artillery hit a military base in the city of Okhtyrka and more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed.
After a first, five-hour session of ‘peace talks’ between Ukraine and Russia yielded no stop in the fighting, both sides agreed to another meeting in coming days.
But Ukraine’s embattled president Volodymyr Zelensky said he believed the stepped-up shelling was designed to force him into concessions.
And the Kremlin has found itself increasingly isolated by economic sanctions that have sent its currency plummeting and seen it kicked out of the World Cup.
Meanwhile, there was a mass walkout from the United Nations Human Rights Council as Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov addressed the members.
And Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the only way out of the ‘morass’ in Ukraine is for Mr Putin to turn his tanks around and send his troops home.
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