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UKRAINE CLAWS BACK TERRITORY IN COUNTRY’S NORTH AHEAD OF TALKS IN ISTANBUL


IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT BIDEN SAID HIS WEEKEND COMMENTS ON RUSSIAN LEADER
VLADIMIR PUTIN WERE ABOUT OUTRAGE, NOT REGIME CHANGE

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Ukrainian forces have reclaimed control of a few small fronts in the country’s
north, officials said Monday, as Russia appears to be directing its fiercest
attacks on besieged areas in the country’s east and south, including Mariupol.

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As the war grinds into its second month, Ukrainian and Russian delegations are
set to meet in Turkey on Tuesday for in-person negotiations. Kremlin officials
have delivered icy remarks ahead of the talks, however, dampening prospects of a
meaningful outcome. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday said his
government should “stop indulging the Ukrainians” in negotiations.

In Washington, President Biden defended unscripted comments he made in Poland
over the weekend when he said that Russian President Vladimir Putin “cannot
remain in power.” He clarified that he was “expressing moral outrage” and echoed
aides who has said his comments didn’t represent a change in U.S. policy or a
campaign to remove the Russian leader.

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Western intelligence officials and others say Moscow seems to be changing
tactics to focus most intensely on the eastern Donbas region where the invasion
began, after attempts to topple capital Kyiv and other key cities have stalled.



Ukrainian forces have taken back Trostianets, a town south of Sumy that is about
20 miles from Ukraine’s northeastern border with Russia, a senior U.S. defense
official said. Ukrainian officials said the government had regained control of
Irpin, a suburb of capital Kyiv.

Live updates: Read the latest news from Russia's invasion of Ukraine

Irpin Mayor Alexandar Markushin said in a video posted Monday that the area had
been reclaimed and that “mopping up” was underway. Speaking from inside a
vehicle and dressed in a green military-style vest, he told residents of the
suburb not to return yet, as the fighting was ongoing.

In early March, Markushin described witnessing fatal attacks on citizens,
including children, who were attempting to leave Irpin as Russian forces made
their initial advance.



Two Ukrainian children killed ‘in front of my own eyes’ while trying to
evacuate, official says

Ukrainian military officials separately said in a Facebook post that several
Russian units had retreated toward Chernobyl in Ukraine’s north and over the
border into Belarus to refresh their combat ability “as they have suffered
significant losses.”

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Despite the modest gains, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said there was no
indication that Russia has fully reversed plans to take over or attack Kyiv.
“According to our information, the Russian Federation has not 100 percent
dropped their attempts if not to take at least to besiege the capital of
Ukraine,” Ukrainian Defense Ministry official Sergey Rudskoy told reporters.

Rudskoy also gave updates on Russian losses, which could not be independently
verified by The Washington Post. He said the Russian army had lost 17,000
people, 1,694 armored vehicles, 586 tanks, 302 artillery systems, 95 rocket
systems, 123 aircraft and 66 drones. NATO last week estimated that between 7,000
and 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.

The British Defense Ministry said in a daily intelligence briefing that Russian
forces have continued to advance in Ukraine’s south, with the most substantial
gains in the besieged city of Mariupol, but also that some units are still
struggling with logistics issues and low morale.

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The mayor of Mariupol again called for the urgent evacuation of the city’s
remaining 160,000 civilians, who have gone without basic necessities including
food and electricity for weeks under a Russian blockade and fierce shelling.

But Ukrainian officials said there would be no immediate efforts to evacuate
citizens from besieged cities through humanitarian corridors, citing “possible
provocations” by Russian forces. Despite that, Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister
Iryna Vereshchuk said in a Telegram post on Monday morning that 586 residents
had escaped Mariupol in their own vehicles on Sunday.

Biden’s Putin remark pushes U.S.-Russia relations closer to collapse

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said he would like to meet
Putin in a neutral country for eventual negotiations, striking a more
conciliatory tone ahead of the talks in Turkey on Tuesday. He also said Ukraine
is open to dialing back its ambitions to join NATO, an apparent concession to
Moscow, on the condition that Russian troops exit the country.

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The remarks, made in a rare interview with Russian journalists, were swiftly
censored in Russia, which has tightened media controls to protect the Kremlin’s
narrative about the war.

Russian officials have played down expectations for the talks.

“So far, we cannot and will not talk about progress,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry
Peskov said in a daily call with journalists on Monday.



U.N. Secretary General António Guterres on Monday joined calls for an immediate
cease-fire in Ukraine to pave the way for “serious political negotiations,”
adding that he was in close contact with countries including Turkey, Qatar,
Israel, India, China, France and Germany to discuss mediation plans.

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Turkey has also called for a reduction in the conflict. Turkish President Tayyip
Erdogan told Putin in a telephone call on Sunday that a cease-fire and efforts
to improve the humanitarian conditions were necessary.

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The country’s proximity to the conflict has not only interrupted trade relations
but raised safety alarms. The Turkish and Romanian defense ministries have in
recent days worked to neutralize potentially explosive mines amid concerns that
live weaponry could drift from Ukraine’s southern shores toward its Black Sea
neighbors, according to statements by the respective ministries.

Turkey, Romania work to defuse mines possibly floating from Ukraine’s shores

The Pentagon announced that it is deploying about 240 troops and six Navy
electronic warfare aircraft to Germany in an effort to reinforce NATO powers in
Eastern Europe.

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“They are not being deployed to be used against Russian forces in Ukraine,” said
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby. “They are being deployed completely in
keeping with our efforts to bolster NATO’s deterrence and defense capabilities.”

The move nevertheless will probably anger Russia, which has cited NATO’s
expansion in Europe as a pressure point in its decision to invade Ukraine. Kirby
said the planes would not be used to jam Russian communications but would help
bolster security in Eastern Europe.

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Analysts say Biden’s comment over the weekend calling for Putin to be ousted
also will probably worsen tensions and reaffirm anti-U.S. narratives in Moscow.
Biden insisted on Monday that he was not “walking anything back” and would make
no apologies. But he also reiterated that he is not calling for regime change in
Moscow.

Since the invasion began, more than 3.8 million Ukrainians have fled the country
into the European Union — over half of them children, according to E.U.
officials. Most of the refugees have flowed into neighboring countries,
primarily Poland, with about 1 million traveling to other countries across the
bloc, Ylva Johansson, the E.U. commissioner for home affairs, said at a news
conference in Brussels on Monday.



The exits from Ukraine have slowed, however, with daily arrivals shrinking from
a peak of 100,000 a day to about 40,000, Johansson said.

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Inside Russia, a battle over the use of foreign social media outlets continued
Monday, amid Moscow’s crackdown on sites that report information outside the
Kremlin’s official narrative.

A Russian court ruled that Facebook and Instagram users who don’t violate
national laws can continue to use the sites, according to state-owned RIA news,
despite the Kremlin earlier designating U.S. parent company Meta Platforms as an
“extremist” organization.

Also Monday, the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said it was suspending
operations for the duration of the conflict. The outlet — edited by Nobel
laureate Dmitry Muratov — was the last independent news organization operating
inside Russia, which has outlawed most references to the war in Ukraine.

Robyn Dixon and Mary Ilyushina in Riga, Latvia; Emily Rauhala in Brussels;
Annabelle Timsit, Kareem Fahim and Zeynep Karatas in Istanbul; and Julian Mark,
Brittany Shammas and Maite Fernández in Washington contributed to this report.


WAR IN UKRAINE: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

The latest: After a day of talks, Ukrainian negotiators outlined some proposals
that Russia said it would look into — and Moscow said it would “drastically
reduce” military activity near Kyiv and Chernihiv “in order to increase mutual
trust and create the necessary conditions for further negotiations.”

The fight: Nearly five weeks into their invasion, Russian forces continue to
mount sporadic attacks on civilian targets in a number of Ukrainian cities.
Russia has been accused of committing war crimes.

The weapons: Ukraine is making use of weapons such as Javelin antitank missiles
and Switchblade “kamikaze” drones, provided by the United States and other
allies. Russia has used an array of weapons against Ukraine, some of which have
drawn the attention and concern of analysts.

In Russia: Putin has locked down the flow of information within Russia, where
the war isn’t even being called a war. The last independent newsletter in Russia
suspended its operations Monday.

Photos: Post photographers have been on the ground from the very beginning of
the war — here’s some of their most powerful work.

How you can help: Here are ways those in the U.S. can help support the Ukrainian
people as well as what people around the world have been donating.

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