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People take shelter inside a building in Mariupol, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. Street fighting broke out in Ukraine’s second-largest city and Russian troops squeezed strategic ports in the country’s south as the prospect of peace talks remains uncertain. (AP … more > Russian and Ukrainian officials will meet for a third round of direct talks Monday to discuss a possible cease-fire in the 10-day-old war launched by the Kremlin.
The push for a cease-fire suffered a major blow Saturday as plans for a “humanitarian corridor” to allow Ukrainian citizens to leave the besieged cities of Mariupol and Volnovakha in the south were put on hold because of continued Russian shelling in the area.
But Davyd Arakhamia, a leading member of Ukrainian President Voldymyr Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People party who took part in the previous face-to-face talks, said on Facebook Saturday that there will be a third round of talks Monday.
Separately, Secretary of State Antony Blinken crossed briefly over the Polish border into western Ukraine Saturday in a show of solidarity with Kyiv. Mr. Blinken had been in Poland as part of an eastern European swing to talk to officials and observe conditions for the 1.5 million-plus Ukrainians who have fled to neighboring countries since the fighting broke out.
Mr. Blinken predicted Ukraine “will prevail” in the fighting.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba who escorted Mr. Blinken across the border, echoed Mr. Zelenskyy in pressing the U.S. and its NATO allies to help desperate Ukrainian forces trying to ward off a larger and better armed Russian invading army.
“ Ukraine will win this war anyway, because this is the people’s war for their land,” Mr. Kuleba said, according to an account by the Agence France-Presse news service. ” … The question is the price.”
Mr. Blinken added that “the entire world stands with Ukraine […]
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