Where is the front?
Oliver Kuehn
Editor in Politics.
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According to the mayor of Kiev, Vitali Klitschko, the city is now surrounded by Russian troops.
An evacuation of the population is no longer possible.
There had already been fighting during the day, but according to reports from Kiev, it was not regular Russian soldiers, but saboteurs.
According to American information from the afternoon, the advance of the Russian armed forces on the Ukrainian capital has come to a standstill 30 kilometers from Kiev.
The reason for this is the lack of fuel among the attackers and the tough resistance of the Ukrainians.
The Russian army is also advancing from the south, but is even further away.
According to reports, Russia does not yet control any of the larger cities in Ukraine.
Kharkiv in the northeast was back under full Ukrainian control on Sunday, the Ukrainian government said.
So far, Russia has around 100,000 soldiers in Ukraine.
Russian reactions
Russian President Vladimir Putin put the country's "deterrent forces" on increased combat readiness on Sunday.
These also include nuclear forces.
The move was condemned in Ukraine and the West.
The Kremlin has dropped its terms of negotiations with the Ukrainian government.
He also sent a negotiating delegation to Belarus to hold talks with Ukrainian envoys at the border.
In Russia there were demonstrations in several cities against the attack on Ukraine.
As civil rights activists reported, such rallies had taken place in more than 40 cities.
The security forces arrested more than 2,000 people.
In Moscow, the protesters also commemorated the opposition leader Boris Nemtsov, who was murdered seven years ago.
Ukrainian reactions
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is not particularly optimistic about talks with Russia.
"I don't believe in an outcome of this meeting, but let's try," he said in a statement.
He will use every chance to end the war, no matter how small.
No Ukrainian should doubt that.
According to the United Nations refugee agency, almost 370,000 people have fled their homes since the war began.
Most of them are trying to get to Poland.
reaction of Germany
In Berlin on Sunday there was a special session of the Bundestag on the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Chancellor Scholz (SPD) announced that the defense budget should increase to two percent of gross domestic product by 2024.
Germany is trying to achieve the goal set by NATO in 2014.
In order to achieve this, a special fund of 100 billion euros should be invested in armaments.
According to Finance Minister Christian Lindner, it should be included in the Basic Law, which requires the support of the opposition.
In addition, the federal government has given up its refusal to supply arms to Ukraine.
Scholz announced that they wanted to make anti-tank weapons available to the country.
According to a report by the editorial network Germany, the Ministry of Defense is considering calling up reservists.
It was also said that 20,000 former Bundeswehr soldiers regularly take part in exercises.
The reservists' association had already announced in the past few days that its members would be ready if they were needed.
In Germany, too, there were demonstrations again against the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
In Berlin alone, 100,000 people are said to have taken to the streets for peace.
EU reaction
The EU had already agreed on Saturday evening to exclude certain Russian banks from the international payment system SWIFT.
This happened after Germany and Hungary gave up their opposition to the move.
On Sunday, the EU then again took new punitive measures against Russia.
The entire EU airspace is to be closed to Russian aircraft.
In addition, the two Russian state broadcasters RT and Sputnik are to be banned in the international community.
In addition, the EU wants to break a long-held taboo and deliver weapons to a war zone.
An emergency aid fund for Ukraine should be set up, from which weapons and other military equipment as well as fuel for Ukraine should be paid.
Further export bans will also be imposed on Belarus for its role in the Russian attack on Ukraine.
The chairman of the conservative EPP group in the EU Parliament, Manfred Weber, called for an EU perspective for Ukraine in a guest article for the FAZ.
American reactions
The United States - and also Britain and Japan - joined the EU's SWIFT sanctions.
Senate Majority Leader Democrat Charles Schumer announced that President Joe Biden's administration will ask Congress to approve $6.4 billion in military and economic aid to Ukraine.