The Ukrainian president is calling for direct peace talks with Vladimir Putin.
President Volodymyr Zelensky is warning Russia only meaningful discussions can limit the damage of Moscow's invasion - including to its own forces.
He's accusing the Kremlin of deliberately creating "a humanitarian catastrophe" by pummelling big cities to try to force citizens to co-operate.
Svitlana Zalischuck - an advisor to Ukraine's deputy prime minister - says her president's tried to talk before:
"He asked Putin to meet him more than a year. He asked for this personal meeting to use diplomacy to talk about how Donbas issue can be solved. So diplomacy was always the priority."
