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Russia and Ukraine will resume peace talks on Friday as west claims Putin has been misled by advisers about failures of his military.

Global restrictions on exports of industrial components to Russia have hit car and tank production. Zelenskiy said: “The support of the United States is vital for us. Ukraine’s president said in a televised address to the nation on Wednesday that “for the moment there are just words, nothing concrete”.

Russia's ambassador to Jakarta said Morrison's push to boycott Putin's appearance at the G20 summit was “driven by illogical hatred”.

Get a note directly from our foreign correspondents on what’s making headlines around the world. “It would be humiliating to the other participants. A humiliation to peace, democracy, human rights, the rule of law, to all the principles this world is based on,” he said. “Ukraine is very grateful to Australia, to the Australian prime minister and to the Australian foreign minister for the sanctions [against Russia], for moral support and all that,” he said. Russia? China? No. It’s the United States. “If the prime minister of Australia thinks it is impossible for him to sit in the same table with leader of another country that invades other country what about [US President Joe] Biden? Is it OK to sit with Biden or [British Prime Minister] Boris Johnson?” she said.

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Ukraine's deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk says a convoy of Ukrainian buses is on its way to Mariupol to try to reach trapped civilians.

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Ukraine says it could trade military neutrality for security guarantees and is working with 10 world powers on an agreement.

The international benchmark, Brent crude, fell 0.5 percent to $110. Nevertheless, Kirby said, the Russian military continues to conduct airstrikes in Kyiv. Wagner Group mercenaries were deployed to the Donbas region, an area partially controlled by separatist forces supported by Russia, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said, confirming intelligence shared by Britain’s Defense Ministry this week. He overestimated the abilities of his military to secure a rapid victory.” Some countries — such as the United States, Poland and Slovakia — have accused Russian embassy staff of using diplomatic cover to engage in espionage. The White House has scrambled in recent days to respond to elevated gas prices, which rose markedly after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Russia is the world’s third-largest producer of oil, and fears of a disruption of its supply to global markets has sent energy prices skyward. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a matter not yet made public. Mariupol was once home to 450,000 people, and 100,000 or so may still be trapped. Others are rushed straight to the hospital for wounds they sustained in the city, or on the treacherous roads out. “Block your products that are helping russia to kill the Ukrainians!” Once a thriving community on the Sea of Azov, Mariupol is now described by the local city council as “the ashes of a dead land." Officials say Russia intends to “refit these troops, resupply them and probably employ them elsewhere in Ukraine,” spokesman John Kirby said.

Russian units suffering heavy losses have been forced to return to Belarus and Russia to "reorganize and resupply," Britain's defense ministry said.

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met Tuesday in Istanbul for a round of peace talks, and Moscow said that it would scale back its military presence near Kyiv. “Negotiations will in no way slow down the war and will not cancel it,” he said. “We are ready to support you in whatever way and form we can that nothing that happens here will be unnoticed,” he told staff at the South Ukraine Nuclear Power Plant based near the city of Yuzhnoukrainsk in Mykolaiv province. Five people have been rescued with eight already evacuated to safety, it said in a post on Telegram. "We are living through a serious stage in the history of international relations," Lavrov said, according to the Russian foreign ministry. “Putin didn’t even know his military was using and losing conscripts in Ukraine, showing a clear breakdown in the flow of accurate information to the Russian president,” the official said. "Nevertheless, we must increase precautionary measures to be prepared for an escalation on the part of Russia," he said. The WFP said it required $590 million to assist millions of people affected by the crisis. He said, "Shared assessment of the situation on the battlefield and at the negotiating table. "It is crucial that partners continue to provide Ukraine with more arms and apply more sanctions on Russia," Kuleba tweeted. Putin had a tense exchange on camera last month in which he told his chief of foreign intelligence service to "Speak plainly! He said the United States had no plans to withdraw sanctions or military aid to Ukraine.

Peace talks are expected to resume as Ukraine and the West warn Moscow may be preparing a major offensive.

“It does not mean that the threat to Kyiv is over.” What you are giving us is what we fought for’.” “Of course, we see the risks. “Ukrainians are not naive people,” Zelenskyy continued. But those signals don’t silence the explosions of Russian shells,” Zelenskyy said. “Physically we haven’t seen any movements.

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“We believe that Putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the Russian military is performing and how the Russian economy has been crippled by sanctions because his senior advisers are too afraid to tell him the truth.” The latest round of negotiations was held in Turkey this week. “We have information that Putin felt misled by the Russian military, which has resulted in persistent tension between Putin and his military leadership,” Kate Bedingfield, White House communications director, told reporters during a news briefing. Russian President Vladimir Putin has been misled by his advisers about the Russian military’s performance in Ukraine, the White House has said. “For this humanitarian operation to succeed, we propose to carry it out with the direct participation of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR] and the International Committee of the Red Cross [ICRC],” the ministry statement said. “We don’t believe anyone, not a single beautiful phrase,” Zelenskyy said in a video address to the nation, adding that Russian troops were regrouping to strike the eastern Donbas region. Freedom should be armed no worse than tyranny.” Bociurkiw, a former spokesman for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in Ukraine, was speaking after Russia announced it would implement a ceasefire on Thursday to allow for civilian evacuations from the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he does not trust Russian promises to scale back military activity and that the Ukrainian military was getting ready for further fighting in the country’s east. “We’ve seen Russian soldiers – short of weapons and morale – refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft,” Fleming said in a speech in Canberra at the Australian National University, according to a transcript of his remarks. The head of the United Kingdom’s spy agency has said new intelligence shows that some Russian soldiers in Ukraine had refused to carry out orders. “If we really are fighting for freedom and in defense of democracy together, then we have a right to demand help in this difficult turning point,” Zelenskyy said in his nighttime video address to the nation.

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