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Mashambulizi ya Urusi Nchini Ukraine yameendelea kwa siku ya tano licha ya mazungumzo yanayolenga kusitisha mapigano.
Inaripotiwa kuwa, mashambulizi ya makombora yameua watu kadhaa katika Mji wa Kharkiv, huku ving'ora vya mashambulizi ya anga vikisikika tena katika Mji Mkuu wa Kyiv.
Rais Volodymyr Zelensky amesema shambulio la Urusi huko Kharkiv ni uhalifu wa kivita.
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Fighting has continued on the fifth day of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, despite talks aimed at securing a ceasefire
Missile strikes killed dozens of civilians in the country's second city, Kharkiv, while air raid sirens sounded again in the capital, Kyiv.
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky called the Russian bombardment of Kharkiv a "war crime"
There were reports of fierce shelling in the northern city of Chernihiv
Russia is attacking Ukraine on several fronts, but its advance has been slowed by Ukrainian resistance
All three cities remain under Ukrainian control
Away from the battlefields, economic and diplomatic moves have continued.
President Vladimir Putin has banned Russians from moving money abroad as he tries to halt a plunge in the value of the rouble following the imposition of sanctions
And a rare emergency session of the United Nations General Assembly has heard a demand from the secretary general for an immediate halt to hostilities
On the northern border with Belarus, Ukrainian and Russian officials ended their first round of talks
There was little expectation the session would bring a breakthrough, but a Ukrainian official said both sides would now return to their respective capitals for further consultations before a second round of negotiations
Russia said both sides had agreed to continue talking and would meet again "in the next few days".
In a late-night address, Mr Zelensky said there were eyewitness accounts of civilians being deliberately targeted during a sustained attack on Kharkiv
He called for the West to consider a no-fly zone over Ukraine - something the US so far ruled out over fears it could draw it into a direct conflict with Russia
Videos shared on social media showed rockets landing in Kharkiv, in what some defence analysts described as typical of a cluster munition strike on a dense urban area
Russia has previously denied targeting residential areas
New satellite images showed a Russian military convoy stretching for about 40 miles (64km) north of Kyiv
But reports of fresh fighting on the outskirts of the capital forced residents back into their shelters on Monday evening
Source: BBC
