Fighting is raging near Kyiv as local officials accused Russian forces of killing seven civilians and the Kremlin said talks between Russia and Ukraine were continuing via a video link.
A woman carries her cat near a destroyed bridge as she flees from her hometown on the road towards Kyiv, in the town of Irpin, Saturday, 12 March, 2022.The Ukrainian intelligence service said the seven, including one child, were killed as women and children tried to flee the village of Peremoha near Kyiv and that "the occupiers forced the remnants of the column to turn back".READ MORE
The president suggested Russian forces would face a fight to the death if they sought to enter the capital. The RIA news agency quoted Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying crisis talks between Russia and Ukraine, which had been conducted in person in Belarus, have continued via a video link. Russian rocket attacks destroyed a Ukrainian airbase and hit an ammunition depot near the town of Vasylkiv in the Kyiv region on Saturday, Interfax Ukraine quoted its mayor as saying.
The Russian bombardment of Ukraine has trapped thousands of people in besieged cities and sent 2.5 million Ukrainians fleeing to neighbouring countries.Ukrainian officials had planned to use humanitarian corridors from Mariupol as well as towns and villages in the regions of Kyiv, Sumy and some other areas on Saturday.
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