Ceasefire

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

Oil prices soared and investors shifted more money into ultra-safe U.S. government bonds as Russia stepped up its war on Ukraine. The price of oil surged back above $100 a barrel after Russia, a major energy producer, faced further isolation and economic damage because of its invasion of Ukraine.

Talks will commence tomorrow.

Hungary banned lethal weapons from passing through the country on its way to Ukraine, Hungarian officials announced Monday.