❗️Zelensky: West should provide military aircraft to Ukraine if they are not ready to announce no-fly zone

⚡️ Canada, allies call for suspending Russia from Interpol - Trudeau

📹: Russian President Putin is holding a meeting with members of the Security Council

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⚡️⚡️ Putin: Nationalists, foreign mercenaries in Ukraine use civilians as human shield

⚡️ Putin: Russian military offered humanitarian corridor in Ukraine, provided transport so that civilians could leave, but nationalists do not allow it

⚡️ Putin: Russian soldiers and officers strive to prevent civilian casualties in Ukraine

⚡️ Putin: Special op in Ukraine going according to plan, in strict accordance with schedule; all tasks successfully implemented

❌ Metropolitan Opera soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her upcoming performances after she refused to condemn the Russian military op in Ukraine, according to the Met.

"Not complying with the Met’s condition that she repudiate her public support for Vladimir Putin while he wages war on Ukraine, soprano Anna Netrebko has withdrawn from her upcoming Met performances in Puccini’s Turandot this April and May, as well as the run of Verdi’s Don Carlo next season", the statement reads.

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⚡️ Ukrainian negotiator says we didn't receive results we had counted on

⚡️⚡️ Kiev and Moscow discussed humanitarian issues, agreed to continue negotiations, third round of talks planned soon

⚡️ UN on Ukraine conflict says does not believe diplomacy is dead

⚡️⚡️ Russia, Ukraine agree on format of humanitarian corridors for civilians, negotiator says

❗️ The US is considering sanctions on India under CAATSA over the purchase of Russian arms, Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs Donald Lu says.

"It’s a question we’re looking at very closely, as the administration is looking at the broader question over whether to apply sanctions under CAATSA [Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act] or to waive those sanctions", Lu said during a Senate hearing.

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⚡️ UN on announcement of possible Ukraine ceasefire says welcomes any movement to protect civilians, lower intensity of conflict

⚡️ UN says up to Security Council to decide on peacekeeping missions in Ukraine

❗️ US not interested in no-fly zone over Ukraine because it would require military to shoot down Russian planes - White House

⚡️ US does not see Russia being removed from UN Security Council - White House

The United States does not see Russia being removed from the UN Security Council, White House spokesperson Jen Psaki said on Thursday.

"We don't see that happening. We certainly understand they have a permanent seat on UN Security Council," Psaki told journalists when asked about the possibility of Russia being removed from the body.

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❗️ The Russian delegation's Vladimir Medinsky and Leonid Slutsky summed up the second round of negotiations:

🔸 the sides discussed all three issues: the military one, the humanitarian one, and the issue of a future political solution to the conflict;

🔸 the positions are clear and written down, a consensus was reached on some of them;

🔸 main issue resolved today: the representatives of the defence ministries agreed on the format of the humanitarian corridors for civilians and a possible ceasefire for the period of civilians leaving;

🔸 in order to implement the agreements - which were not revealed today - the sides agreed to hold a third round of talks in the coming days;

🔸 some of the agreements will need to be nationally ratified;

🔸 the sides must not drag out the process of the implementation of the agreements that are to be ratified at the top level in the coming days or even hours.

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‼ White House: US imposing new sanctions on Kremlin spokesman, 19 Russian 'Oligarchs'

‼️US Not Ruling Out Biden-Putin Meeting, But No Engagement Planned at Present - White House

White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday did not rule out a potential in-person meeting between US President Joe Biden and Russian Vladimir Putin in the future, but added that there are currently no plans for direct engagement between the two leaders.

🗣️"I can't make an assessment of that," Psaki said when asked if there is any situation where Biden would sit down with Putin in person again so long as Russian forces are engaged in the special operation in Ukraine. "Right now they're invading a sovereign country and continuing to escalate every day. We're never going to take diplomacy ever off the table. But again, knows that not the moment for that."

When asked why the United States does not rule out such a meeting, Psaki said, "We have discussions internally about what the best steps are to de-escalate" but now is not the moment to plan an engagement between the two leaders."