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Day 19 of the Russian move against the Ukraine…..

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More cities being bombed….

More deaths….

Zelensky to talk to Congress…

Biden maybe going to Europe….

Peace talks going nowhere?….

Oil prices settle….US Stocks rebound….

A NATO live-fire exercise in Scandinavia while all this stuff going on in the Ukraine…

Russian debt grows…

Negotiations between Ukraine and Russia are on hold until Tuesday, after the talks resumed following recent attacks on a military facility 15 miles from the border of NATO member Poland that threatened to widen the war. Unrelenting fighting has obstructed efforts to provide relief to besieged Ukrainian cities, including the port of Mariupol. In the capital, officials said a residential building in Kyiv’s Obolon district was struck by Russian shelling, forcing residents to flee as firefighters tried to extinguish the flames and rescue those trapped inside.

Ukrainian officials had projected a more optimistic tone for the talks than on previous, fruitless occasions. Shortly before 5 p.m. local time Monday, Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian negotiator and presidential adviser said in a message posted on Twitter that the talks had taken a “technical pause” until Tuesday, adding: “Negotiations continue.”

Meanwhile, in a letter to U.S. lawmakers, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will deliver a virtual joint address to Congress on Wednesday. “Congress, our country and the world are in awe of the people of Ukraine,” they wrote.

Here’s what to know

  • Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Monday officials would attempt to evacuate civilians through 10 humanitarian corridors, around Kyiv and the eastern Luhansk region. Meanwhile, Mikhail Mizintsev, the head of the Russian National Defense Control Center, said Ukrainian authorities had agreed to three out of 10 corridors proposed by Russia and also claimed Russia had agreed to 11 humanitarian corridors proposed by the Ukrainian side. In recent days, efforts around humanitarian corridors have faltered and Ukrainian officials have accused Russian forces of shelling such routes.
  • Ukrainian authorities were also trying to facilitate the movement of a humanitarian convoy carrying food and medicines to Mariupol that was unable to reach the city Sunday because of intense fighting.
  • Ukrainian officials said an American journalist, Brent Renaud, was fatally shot while reporting outside Kyiv.

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