Russia on Saturday admitted using advanced hypersonic missiles for the first time in the Ukraine conflict as Kyiv's embattled leader Volodymyr Ze...
KYIV - Russia on Saturday admitted using advanced hypersonic missiles for the first time in the Ukraine conflict as Kyiv's embattled leader Volodymyr Zelensky called for urgent peace talks.
"There has been damage, destruction and the detonation of munitions," he said."They are using all the missiles in their arsenal against us.""This is the time to meet, to talk, time for renewing territorial integrity and fairness for Ukraine," Zelensky said in a Facebook video."Otherwise, Russia's losses will be such, that several generations will not recover.
But as in previous negotiations there appeared to be little progress in reaching a ceasefire, with Russian President Vladimir Putin accusing Ukraine of"numerous war crimes" during a call late Friday with French President Emmanuel Macron. At the time of the attack, Mariupol's city council said that over 1,000 people were sheltering in the theatre's basement when it was hit on Wednesday.
More than 3.25 million refugees have fled Ukraine and countless others have sought havens in the country's west, though Putin said his forces were doing"everything possible" to avoid civilian casualties during his latest call with Macron, according to the Kremlin.In a video Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Russian forces of blocking aid around hotspot areas.
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