The leaders of Turkey and the U.N. will pressure Russia to take tangible steps toward peace during meetings on Tuesday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday will come under further pressure from world leaders as his invasion of Ukraine grinds into its third month. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, who is meeting with Putin in Moscow, will lobby for an immediate cease-fire. And Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who leads a NATO member country that has had relatively close relations with the Kremlin, said he hopes to steer Putin toward diplomacy during a call on Tuesday.
Russian forces struck five railway stations in central and western Ukraine on Monday, in what U.S.-based military analysts said could be an attempt to disrupt materiel shipments to the front line. In the eastern battleground, Russian troops are expected to surround Ukrainian forces in hopes of pummeling them in an epic, long-distance ground battle reminiscent of the last century. Gen. Mark A. Milley, chairman of the U.S.
Experts from the U.N. nuclear watchdog will visit the Chernobyl nuclear power plant site on Tuesday, in the first full international inspection since Russian forces occupied the area.
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