Russia-Ukraine crisis updates | March 10, 2022

Moscow’s aims do not include overthrowing the Kyiv government and it hopes to achieve more significant progress in the next round of talks with Ukraine, said Russia. The World Health Organisation, meanwhile, has confirmed 18 attacks on medical facilities since the Russian invasion began on February 24.- AP WARSAW US Vice President Kamala Harris supports calls for a ‘war crimes’ probe into Russia Speaking at an event in Poland, demonstrating US support for NATO’s Eastern flank allies, the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris expressed her support on Thursday for an investigation into Russia’s attacks on Civilians in Ukraine. Polish President Andrzej Duda, who stood alongside her, said “it is obvious to us that in Ukraine Russians are committing war crimes.”- AP TURKEY Another round of Russia-Ukraine talks yields inconclusive outcome Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says talks between top diplomats from Kyiv and Moscow did not result in a breakthrough vis-a-vis ending the crisis in Ukraine.- AP Mr. Kuleba and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov met in Turkey on Thursday to talk about setting up humanitarian corridors and a cease-fire. “ Air Strike Bombing at maternity hospital kills three – Mariupol City Council An airstrike on a hospital in the port of Mariupol killed three people, including a child, the city council said Thursday, and Russian forces intensified their siege of Ukrainian cities, even as the top diplomats from both sides met for the first time since the war began. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova this week, without evidence, accused Ukraine of running chemical and biological weapons labs in its territory, supported by the U.S. White House press secretary Jen Psaki called Russia’s claim “preposterous” and said it could be part of an attempt by Russia to lay the groundwork for itself using such weapons of mass destruction against Ukraine.