Ceasefire

Beijing contradicts Washington Post informer "who spoke on the condition of anonymity."

Since March 2, Ukraine has received more than 18,000 tons of humanitarian aid from abroad, and the pace of its is growing, according to Ukrainian gov't.

Ukrainian president no longer sees NATO alliance in country's near future, prepared to "discuss and find a compromise on the points about the temporarily occupied territories and unrecognized republics."

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Monday his government will “continue resorting to active measures in order to settle this critical situation in Ukraine.”

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators held a third round of peace talks on Monday in the region of Brest, Belarus near the Polish border. The talks ran for almost three hours.

The ceasefire reportedly includes safe evacuation routes into Russia, a plan Ukraine calls "unacceptable.'

Russian President Vladimir Putin's forces invade a sovereign country, target civilian buildings on the thinnest possible pretexts, and now twice violate a ceasefire intended to help civilians flee a city under heavy Russian bombardment. So you would think we would have learned our lesson about Russia by now, but we haven't.

Peace talks came to an end between the warring Russia-Ukraine delegations with the only concession being in the area of humanitarian corridors, as the United States begins sharing real-time intelligence with Kiev.

Moscow and Kiev agree on mechanisms to establish routes to evacuate civilians from combat zones in Ukraine.

Ukraine has not achieved the other goals it sought, however, Kiev revealed