Russia-Ukraine war latest news: peace talks to resume; scores dead as missiles hit Kyiv

It is just after 9.30am in Ukraine on day 19 of Russia’s war. Here is where the situation currently stands:

• Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services said. The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.
• The Antonov aircraft plant in Kyiv has been shelled by Russian forces, the Kyiv city administration said in an update on its official Telegram account on Monday morning. The site, also known as Hostomel, is located about 11km north-west of the centre of Kviv and is the country’s most important international cargo airport, as well as a key military airbase.
• Talks will begin shortly between Ukraine and Russia today with officials on both sides offering cautious optimism despite little evidence that Russian president Vladimir Putin’s position has changed. Negotiations are set to begin at 10:30am local time.
• A pregnant woman seen in widely circulated images after Russian bombing of Ukrainian hospital has died with her baby, the Associated Press is reporting. The woman was escaping the bombing of the maternity hospital where she was meant to give birth in the besieged city of Mariupol.
• Germany will reportedly purchase up to 35 F-35 fighter jets, a government source told Reuters.
• US officials believe Russia has sought military support from China amid claims that the Russian military is running short on certain kinds of armaments, the Financial Times first reported. The developments have led to fears Beijing may undermine the West’s efforts to help Ukraine.
• The United States will try to persuade China not to supply arms to Russia at a high-level meeting in Rome.
• The Ukrainian military is claiming cases of “mass refusals by Russian servicemen” to fight in the war on Ukraine, according the latest operational report.
• The UK defence ministry claims Russian naval forces are “effectively isolating Ukraine from international maritime trade”, its latest defence intelligence update on the situation in Ukraine reads.
• Ramzan Kadyrov, the leader of Russia’s Chechnya region, is reportedly in Ukraine alongside Russian forces, according to footage shared by Chechen television channels and posted to Kadyrov’s Telegram account.
• British prime minister Boris Johnson announced that the UK government will donate more than 500 mobile generators to Ukraine to help provide power for key buildings such as hospitals, shelters and water treatment plants.
• Russia’s state media and communication regulator, Rozcomnadzor, says Instagram will be banned, claiming the social networking site “calls for violence against Russians” as the reason behind the embargo.
• The CEO of controversial facial recognition company Clearview AI said the Ukraine defence ministry has started to use its services, according to Reuters.
• Ukrainian president Zelenskiy urged Nato to impose a no fly zone after the attack on the military base that brought the fighting close to the Polish border. “If you don’t close our sky, it is only a matter of time before Russian rockets fall on your territory, on Nato territory,” he said.
• Russia’s defence ministry admitted responsibility for a rocket attack on the International Centre for Peacekeeping and Security, a military base, near the Polish border on Sunday.
• Desperately needed medical gear and equipment, including trauma kits, is reaching Ukraine to prop up a healthcare system grappling with a shortage of supplies amid Russia’s invasion, the World Health Organization said.

Two people were killed and three injured when a shell hit a residential building in north-west Kyiv on Monday morning, Ukraine’s state emergency services has said.

“As of 07:40, the bodies of 2 people were found in a nine-storey residential building, 3 people were hospitalised, 9 people were treated on the spot,” the agency said in a statement just after 8am.

A further 15 people were reportedly rescued from the blaze and 63 evacuated with the fire extinguished just before 8am.

The nine-storey residential apartment building reportedly caught fire from Russian shelling after 5am.

Ukraine’s state emergency service published an update at 7.30am local time, saying they received a report of a fire that broke out shortly after 5am in Obolonskyi district of the capital.