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Updates from BBC correspondents in Ukraine and the region: Jeremy Bowen, Orla Guerin, Lyse Doucet and James Waterhouse in Kyiv, Sarah Rainsford in Dnipro, and Fergal Keane and Joel Gunter in Lviv

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Edited by Jeremy Gahagan

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Breaking Russia's foreign government minister to see Ukrainian analogue

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Russian federation'south Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is expected to see Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba on Th in Antalya, Turkey.

The coming together comes as Russian federation continues its invasion of Ukraine.

Ukraine says rocket attacks have continued on residential areas in several cities, and that the capital Kyiv could confront an all-out assault.
Breaking More than Ukraine-Russia talks to be held presently

A third circular of talks is expected to be held betwixt Ukrainian and Russian negotiators in a few hours.

We've now heard they're due to begin at 16:00 Kyiv time (14:00 GMT), according to Ukrainian officials.
Head conductor at Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre resigns

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Tugan Sokhiev, the prestigious Bolshoi Theatre's master conductor, has resigned "with immediate outcome" afterwards coming nether pressure level to express his opinion on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

"Beginning of all I need to say most of import thing: I take never supported and I will always be against any conflicts in whatsoever shape and form," the Russian conductor said in a Facebook mail service.

Only he resigned without stating his position on the conflict, and also left his post as conductor of Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse in France, where he had been pressed to analyze his views.

"Today I am forced to make a choice and cull 1 of my musical family over the other. I am being asked to choose one cultural tradition over the other," he said.

He said his decision was based on being "forced to face the impossible option of choosing between my beloved Russian and beloved French musicians".

Final week the Munich Combo dismissed Russian chief usher Valery Gergiev with immediate effect, after he did non respond to calls to condemn the invasion.

Sokhiev added: "I am being asked to choose one cultural tradition over the over. I am being asked to choose i artist over the other.I am being asked to choose i vocalist over the other.

"I will be soon asked to choose between Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Shostakovich and Beethoven, Brahms, Debussy."

He added he could not "deport to witness" how his boyfriend artists were existence "menaced, treated disrespectfully and being victims of so called 'cancel culture'".

Bolshoi general director Vladimir Urin told Tass state news agency he was saddened by the decision.

"I'm very distressing. His departure is a serious problem for the Bolshoi Theatre. Information technology's unclear how the situation volition develop from now," he said.
Russian federation 'deliberately targeting Ukraine's comms' - MoD

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Image caption: A TV tower in Kyiv was targeted final week

The UK'south Ministry of Defence (Modernistic) has suggested Russia was deliberately targeting Ukraine's communications facilities.

The latest defence intelligence update it published said Moscow was "probably targeting Ukraine's communications infrastructure in order to reduce Ukrainian citizens' access to reliable news and data".

In that location were reports of a strike on a TV tower in Kharkiv on Sunday, following a like set on in Kyiv last week.

"Ukrainian cyberspace access is also highly likely being disrupted as a event of collateral damage from Russian strikes on infrastructure," the MoD said.

"Over the by week, internet outages have been reported in Mariupol, Sumy, Kyiv and Kharkiv."
'We cannot pay for oil with the claret of Ukraine'

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Republic of lithuania's Strange Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis has called for embargoes on Russian energy sales.

"Energy sources which nosotros import pay for the Russian militaryoperation," Landsbergis said at a joint meeting with U.s. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Vilnius.

"We cannot pay for oil and gas with the blood of Ukraine."

Italian prime number minister Mario Draghi is coming together Eu principal Ursula Von der Leyen in Brussels to discuss Italy's current dependence on Russian energy, and what can exist done to diversify Italy'south current energy supply.

Italy and Germany are amid the European countries who would be most heavily impacted by Russian oil import restrictions.
U.k. petrol price hits 155p per litre for commencement time

Katy Austin

Ship correspondent

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We've got some new data on the surge in petrol prices amidst Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Motoring group the AA says the boilerplate toll of a litre of petrol at UK pumps has hit 155p for the starting time fourth dimension - pushing the cost to more than £7 a gallon.

Filling upwards a car with a 55-litre tank at present costs nearly £17 more than a year ago, rising from £68.lx to £85.59, the AA says.

On Sunday, petrol reached 155.62p a litre on average, with diesel at 161.28p.

And experts have warned of further price rises to come up.

The rise, which has seen oil prices soar to the highest level since July 2008, came after the United states said it was discussing a potential ban on Russian supplies with other countries.

Brent rough - the global oil criterion - rose above $139 a butt, before easing to around $130 (£99).

James Spencer, manager of Portland Fuel, warns that "even if we can get extra supplies on to the market, zippo will happen rapidly".

"I'm agape we are going to encounter prices in backlog of £1.70 to £1.75 a litre."
Us and allies 'ready to encounter any threat' to Nato - Blinken

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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on an official visit in Lithuania, says Russian federation has sought to "undermine Lithuania's democracy and sow polarisation with cyber attacks and disinformation".

He besides says the United states of america and his host country are "united in our resolve to stand with Ukraine", as the Russian invasion reaches its 12th day of conflict.

The US was bolstering "our shared defence force", he says, so the US and allies are ready "to come across any threat" - including sending a further 7,000 Usa forces to Europe, and repositioning others "to strengthen Nato'due south eastern flank".

Secretarial assistant Blinken reasserted the U.s.a.'s "sacrosanct" delivery to Nato'southward Article 5 - "an assail on one is an attack on all" - stressing: "Nosotros volition defend every inch of Nato territory."
Where are Ukraine'due south refugees going?

In what the UN has called Europe's fastest growing refugee crisis since World War Two , more than than 1.7 million civilians have now fled Ukraine because of the Russian invasion.

The European Union says up to four million people may endeavor to get out the state.

And then where are all those people going?

Refugees are by and large crossing to neighbouring countries to the west, principally Poland, and also Romania, Slovakia, Republic of hungary and Moldova. Much smaller numbers have gone to Russia and Belarus.

Read more here.

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India urges Putin 'to hold directly talks with Ukraine'

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Image caption: Narendra Modi and Vladimir Putin, pictured in December, reportedly spoke about the war

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to hold direct talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, according to an Indian government source quoted past Reuters news agency.

"President Putin briefed Prime Minister Modi on the status of negotiations between the Ukrainian and Russian teams," the source said, declining to be named ahead of an official argument.
Proposed humanitarian corridors 'unacceptable' - Ukraine

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Image caption: Civilians were killed as many tried to flee the shelling in Irpin, about Kyiv, on Sunday

Ukraine's deputy prime number minister Iryna Vereshchuk has called Russia'south six proposed humanitarian corridors "unacceptable".

Of the four cities mentioned in Russia's proposal, only Mariupol and Sumy accept evacuation routes that lead to other parts of Ukraine. All other routes atomic number 82 straight to Russia or Republic of belarus, a key Russian marry in the war.

"This is an unacceptable way of opening humanitarian corridors," said Vereshchuk.

"Our people will not go from Kyiv to Belarus to and then be flown to the Russian Federation."

Overnight on Sun, Russia sent a letter of the alphabet proposing a temporary ceasefire window from x:00 Russian time (07:00 GMT). In response, Ukraine sent Russian federation its conditions on the routes, specifically the opening of corridors for the evacuation of people to the west of Ukraine - away from Russia.

Vereshchuk chosen on the US, Uk and France for assistance in establishing the corridors.

Ukrainian citizens should exist immune to leave their homes through Ukrainian territory, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Ukraine war 'catastrophic for global nutrient'

Emma Simpson

Business correspondent

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The boss of one of the world'south biggest fertiliser companies has said the war in Ukraine will deliver a stupor to the global supply and cost of food.

Svein Tore Holsether, the boss of Yara International, said fertiliser prices, which were already loftier earlier the Russian invasion due to skyrocketing gas prices, could go along to soar.

Yara, which operates in more than 60 countries, buys considerable amounts of essential raw materials from Russia.

"We were already in a difficult situation before the state of war," Holsether told the BBC. "At present it'south additional disruption to the supply bondage and we're getting shut to the most of import function of this flavour for the Northern hemisphere, where a lot of fertiliser needs to motion on and that will quite likely be impacted."

Russia produces enormous amounts of nutrients, similar potash and phosphate - primal ingredients in fertilisers, which enable plants and crops to grow.

"For me, information technology's not whether nosotros are moving into a global food crisis - it'southward how large the crisis will be," Holsether added.

Read more than nigh the impact of the Russian invasion on food prices hither.
The Ukraine minister driving tech warfare against Russia

From his underground shelter in a hole-and-corner location in Kyiv, Ukraine'south youngest cabinet minister is waging a digital war on Russian federation.

Using his preferred weapon - social media - Mykhailo Fedorov has been urging chief executives of big businesses to cut ties with Moscow. He's also taken the unprecedented movement of setting up a volunteer "It Regular army of Ukraine" to launch cyber-attacks against "the enemy".

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He has piled pressure on multinational companies to boycott Russia.

Apple, Google, Meta, Twitter, YouTube, Microsoft, Sony, Oracle... no tech giant has missed out on an official government alphabetic character.

Fedorov and then posts his letters on social media so the world tin see, plus some of the replies.

But some of his tactics are proving divisive.

Read more here.
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Video caption: State of war in Ukraine: Taking cover in a town under attack

Equally we've been reporting, Russia has proposed a new ceasefire to permit civilians to escape Ukraine.

Over the weekend, groups of civilians fleeing Irpin braved attacks and tried to flee, with at to the lowest degree one mortar attack killing a woman and 2 children.

The BBC'south Jeremy Bowen spent the day in the town, which has constitute itself on the forepart line between Russian and Ukrainian forces over the past calendar week.
Details of Russia's proposed humanitarian corridors
Nosotros reported earlier that some of the new ceasefire corridors announced by Russia atomic number 82 to Russia or Republic of belarus.

Of the 4 cities mentioned, only the smaller ones - Mariupol and Sumy - have evacuation routes that lead to other parts of Ukraine.

The full list of routes was published by the Russian news agency Ria, citing a recently established body called the Interdepartmental Coordinating HQ for the Humanitarian Response in Ukraine.

The details are as follows:

Mariupol
- Route 1 - Novoazovsk, Taganrog, Rostov-on Don (Russia), so by air, road or runway to a chosen destination or temporary holding place
- Route two - Portivske, Mangush, Respublika, Rosivka, Bilmak, Polohi, Orekhiv, Zaporizhzhya (Ukraine)
Kharkiv
- Nekhoteyevka, Belgorod (Russia) then past air, route or rail
Sumy
- Route 1 - Sudzha, Belgorod so by whatsoever send
- Route ii - Sumy, Golubivka, Romny, Lokhvitsya, Lubny, Poltava (Ukraine)
Kyiv
- Hostomel, Rakivka, Sosnovka, Ivankiv, Orane, Chernobyl, Gden', Gomel (Belarus), then past air to Russia
The statement adds that Russian armed services will carry out "uninterrupted objective control of the evacuation, including with the use of drones".

A spokesperson for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has chosen the proposal "completely immoral", saying Russia was trying to "use people's suffering to create a television picture".

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Ceasefire offer 'cynical beyond conventionalities' - Cleverly

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Great britain authorities government minister James Cleverly has called Russian plans for a temporary ceasefire - to allow civilians access to humanitarian corridors which pb to either Belarus or Russia - "cynical across belief".

"Providing evacuation into the arms of the country that is currently destroying yours is a nonsense," the minister for Europe and North America told BBC Breakfast.

He one time again ruled out the prospect of Nato imposing a no-wing zone over Ukraine, saying President Putin was trying to drag Nato into conflict "to justify his false narrative that he is justifying in Russian federation against Nato assailment".

He said the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland would continue to assistance the Ukrainians defend themselves, and provide both economic and humanitarian support.

Asked about provision for refugees, he said there was no change to previous plans appear by the abode secretary, stressing that there needed to be a process in identify.

He said at that place was no target or limit to the numbers arriving - but it would "inevitably" grow beyond the fifty visas currently existence reported - and piece of work was ongoing to make the speed upwards the application process.

"We don't know exactly what the numbers will be - this is the largest refugee crisis since the second world war."

"We are looking to create something large-scale very quickly."
Evacuation route out of Mariupol was mined, Crimson Cantankerous says

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Paradigm caption: Residential areas in Mariupol have been heavily shelled

Dominik Stillhart, director of operations for the International Committee of the Red Cantankerous (ICRC), has been speaking with BBC Radio iv's Today programme.

Asked what's gone incorrect with then-called humanitarian corridors, he said they had been talking to both sides "for days", simply problems remained confirming the detail of any ceasefire agreement - to let civilians out of bombarded cities.

Stillhart said the challenge was to get the 2 parties to an understanding that is "concrete, actionable and precise".

He added that so far there had only been agrements "in principle", which had immediately broken down because they lacked precision, regarding routes and who can apply them.

Illustrating his point, he said some ICRC staff had tried to go out of Mariupol forth an agreed route on Sunday, just soon realised "the road indicated to them was actually mined".

"That is why it is so of import that the two parties take a precise understanding for the states then to be able to facilitate it on the basis."
Russia'southward corridors proposal 'completely immoral' - Ukraine

Ukraine has said Russia's proposal on humanitarian corridors taking refugees to Belarus or Russian federation was "completely immoral".

Ukrainian citizens should be allowed to leave their homes through Ukrainian territory, a spokesman for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

"This is a completely immoral story. People's suffering is used to create the desired television moving picture," the spokesman said in a written message quoted by Reuters news bureau.

Quote Message: These are citizens of Ukraine, they should have the right to evacuate to the territory of Ukraine"
China to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine

People's republic of china's Red Cross will provide humanitarian assistance to Ukraine, Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said, as he reiterated a call for diplomatic talks to continue.

He stressed China's friendship with Russian federation are "stone solid" and the prospects for cooperation are very wide.

Yi's words comes hours after Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison urged People's republic of china to denounce Russian federation.

In a lengthy foreign policy voice communication in Sydney, Morrison said China had repeatedly spoken about respect for sovereignty and territorial integrity.

"It is up to China, at this hinge point of history, to demonstrate these are more just words," said Morrison, calculation "no state would accept a greater touch on Russia than People's republic of china".

Until now, Red china's regime has neither condemned nor condoned Russia's war on Ukraine and has even refrained from calling it an "invasion" in the get-go place.

But earlier this week, Wang signalled that China was ready to play a office in mediating a ceasefire.

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Paradigm caption: Countries all over the globe are sending humanitarian aid to Ukraine
Macron 'did not ask for corridors to Russia'

More than now on the reports of evacuation routes heading to Russia and Belarus. French President Emmanuel Macron denies requesting for those corridors to lead into Russia, French news outlet BFMTV reports.

"The president of the Republic has neither requested nor obtained corridors to Russia later on his conversation with Vladimir Putin," the Elysee presidential palace told BFMTV .

"The president of the Republic insistently asks to permit the civilian populations leave and to allow the transport of aid.

"Information technology's another way for Putin to push his narrative and say that it is the Ukrainians who are the aggressors and they are the ones who offering aviary to everyone."
Some humanitarian corridors pb to Belarus or Russia

Equally we've been reporting, Russia has said it volition open new humanitarian corridors to allow civilians to evacuate.

Evacuation routes published past Russian federation'southward RIA Novosti news agency show civilians will exist able to get out to Russia and Belarus.

The corridor from Kyiv will atomic number 82 to Russian marry Republic of belarus, and civilians from Kharkiv will only accept a corridor leading to Russia.

Corridors from the cities of Mariupol and Sumy will pb both to other Ukrainian cities and to Russia, the AFP news agency reports.