Ukraine’s president stresses that more time is needed ‘for the decisions to be in the interests of Ukraine’
Rescuers work next to a residential building damaged by shelling, as Russia’s attack on Ukraine continues, in Kyiv, Ukraine, in this handout picture released on March 16 2022. Picture: STATE EMERGENCY SERVICE OF UKRAINE/HANDOUT VIA REUTERSUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday that peace talks were sounding more realistic but more time was needed, as Russian air strikes killed five people in the capital Kyiv and the refugee tally from Moscow’s invasion reached 3-million.
In a hint of a possible compromise, Zelensky said earlier that Ukraine was prepared to accept security guarantees from the West that stop short of its long-term goal of joining Nato. Moscow sees any future Ukraine membership of the Western alliance as a threat and has demanded guarantees it will never join.
Biden will attend a Nato leaders meeting at the military alliance’s headquarters in Brussels on March 24. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will also attend. At least 10 of Nato’s biggest allies, including the US, Britain and France, have deployed more troops, ships and warplanes to its eastern flank, and put more on standby.Just more than 3-million have now fled Ukraine, according to the UN, with more than 1.8-million arriving in neighbouring Poland. Its prime minister and those of Slovenia and the Czech Republic were in Kyiv on Tuesday to show solidarity.
About 2,000 cars left the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, location of the worst humanitarian crisis, the local council said.
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