Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appealed to Moscow on Saturday, saying it was "time" to discuss "peace and security".
The Russian army said on Friday that it had entered Mariupol and fought in the city center after several days of siege.
Emmanuel Macron expressed to Vladimir Putin his "extreme concern" about the situation in Mariupol, during a new telephone interview on Friday.
The bombing of a theater in this city in southern Ukraine by Russian troops, according to kyiv, caused at least one serious injury, but no deaths, said the city council in its first report on this tragedy.
Russian "missiles" have destroyed an aircraft repair factory in the airport district of Lviv, a large Ukrainian city near the Polish border, announced its mayor, Andriy Sadovy.
"China and the United States have a responsibility to help achieve world peace," Xi Jinping told Joe Biden during a meeting between the two leaders.
Vladimir Putin for his part accused Ukraine of "dragging" the talks on the conflict and considered that kyiv had "unrealistic" demands, during a telephone interview Friday with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.
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