A building hit in Kiev. A strike on a residential building in Kiev left at least one dead and 12 injured this morning, Ukrainian relief said, as fighting raged on the outskirts of the capital as Russian troops sought to surround it.
Instagram inaccessible in Russia. The application is now on the list of sites with “restricted access” published by the telecommunications policeman Roskomnadzor, joining the networks Facebook, Twitter and several media critical of Russian power. Moscow accuses the social network, extremely popular with the country’s youth, of spreading calls for violence against Russians in connection with the conflict in Ukraine.
New Russian-Ukrainian negotiations. A session of talks by videoconference must be held in the morning. A Russian negotiator spoke yesterday of “significant progress”, Kiev indicating for its part that Moscow had stopped issuing “ultimatums” and was beginning to “listen carefully to our proposals”.