11 civilians killed in Russian shelling on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

At least 11 people were killed, as a result of Russian bombing of residential neighborhoods in Kharkiv, the second largest city in Ukraine on the border with Russia, the region's governor announced on Monday, expressing fears of "dozens of deaths."

"The Russian enemy is bombing residential neighborhoods," the region's governor, Oleg Senegubov, said on social media, adding that "as a result of this bombardment, which is still ongoing, we cannot use relief equipment... There are currently 11 dead and dozens wounded."

Western defense officials and the Kyiv government said that Ukrainian forces have so far managed to keep the country's main cities out of Russian control, despite incursions into the capital, Kyiv, and Kharkiv.

On Monday, the first negotiations between Russia and Ukraine since the outbreak of the war began last week, with Kyiv calling for an "immediate ceasefire" while the number of refugees fleeing the conflict exceeded 500,000.

While the two delegations arrived to hold talks at the border between Belarus and Ukraine on the fifth day of the invasion carried out by Moscow, the Ukrainian presidency demanded a ceasefire and "troop withdrawal", something that Moscow seems almost certain to reject.

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