Ukraine submitted a set of proposals including its readiness to adopt a non-bloc, nuclear-free status, and scientists are concerned that the Corona virus could evolve within animal populations – potentially spawning dangerous viral mutants that could jump back to people. Natalie Hoepner has today’s News in :90.
Vladimir Medinsky, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s adviser who led the Russian delegation in the talks Thursday in Belarus near the Polish border, said the parties’ “positions are absolutely clear, they are written down point by point,” including issues related to a political settlement of the conflict. He added without elaboration that “mutual understanding was found on part of them.”
Russian forces shelled Ukraine’s second-largest city on Monday, rocking a residential neighborhood, and closed in on the capital, Kyiv, in a 17-mile convoy of hundreds of tanks and other vehicles, as talks aimed at stopping the fighting yielded only an agreement to keep talking.
