The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. Here are the updates for March 24:
The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. Here are the updates for March 24:
- The United Nations says it is “deeply concerned” by what it said were summary executions of prisoners of war by both Russian and Ukrainian forces on the battlefield.
- Russia’s former President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia wants to create demilitarised buffer zones around areas it has annexed, adding it might be necessary to push deeper into Ukraine if such zones cannot be set up.
- Russia is not planning to enter into a direct conflict with NATO and is interested in resolving the Ukraine crisis through talks, Medvedev said in an interview.
- The Kremlin says it is essential to identify an object discovered next to one of the Nord Stream pipelines and the ongoing investigation into blasts must be done transparently.
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