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Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin says 'certain positive movements' in negotiations

PHOTO: Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at the Kremlin in Moscow, March 11, 2022.
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How Russia’s Ukraine invasion might come to an end
By Morgan Winsor, Emily Shapiro, Julia Jacobo, Nadine El-Bawab, Meredith Deliso, Ivan Pereira, Kevin Shalvey, Bill Hutchinson, Celia Darrough
Last Updated: March 10, 2022, 5:12 PM

Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.

The attack began Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation."

Russian forces moving from neighboring Belarus toward Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, have advanced closer to the city center in recent days despite the resistance, coming within about 9 miles as of Friday.

Russia has been met by sanctions from the United States, Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting the Russian economy as well as Putin himself.

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Latest headlines:

  • Ukrainian air force claims Russia carried out false flag airstrike in Belarus
  • UN has credible reports of Russian cluster bomb use, attacks on health care
  • Putin claims 'certain positive movements' in Ukraine negotiations
  • Russian general prosecutor wants Meta declared 'extremist organization'
  • Putin orders Russian military to help volunteer fighters from Middle East travel to Ukraine
Here's how the news is developing. All times Eastern.

Mar 10, 2022 5:12 PM

Harris announces $50 million in aid to UN World Food Program after meeting with Polish president

Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the U.S. will be giving $50 million in humanitarian assistance to the United Nations World Food Program.

Harris made the announcement during a joint press conference after she met with Poland's President Andrzej Duda.

USAID will deliver the funds to the WFP, which go toward providing emergency food aid, such as high-energy biscuits, to refugees and supporting the WFP's operations to get aid into Ukraine, according to a release from USAID.

Including the aid money announced Thursday, the U.S. has provided $107 million in humanitarian aid since Russia's war against Ukraine started, according to USAID.

In the press conference, Harris and Duda spoke about the unified partnership between the U.S. and Poland on the war in Ukraine.

"We will do everything together in partnership, in solidarity, to support what is necessary this very moment in terms of the humanitarian and security needs of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people," Harris said.

PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold a press conference at Belwelder Palace in Warsaw, Poland, March 10, 2022.
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and Polish President Andrzej Duda hold a press conference at Belwelder Palace in Warsaw, Poland, March 10, 2022.
Saul Loeb/POOL/AFP via Getty Images

Harris and Duda also condemned the Russian attack on a maternity hospital which killed 3 people and wounded 17, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

"We have been witnessing for weeks, and certainly just in the last 24 hours, atrocities of unimaginable proportions,” Harris said.

Duda went as far as saying if hospitals and residential buildings are bombed where there are no military installations, "this is an act of barbarity baring the features of a genocide."

“We cannot accept such military activities that bare the characteristics of genocide," Duda said.

Harris also announced that the U.S. has delivered Patriot missile systems to Poland, which it had promised earlier this week, and noted the recent deployment of 4,700 U.S. troops to Poland.

-ABC News' Molly Nagle and Conor Finnegan


Mar 10, 2022 4:38 PM

At least 549 civilians, including 41 children, killed in Ukraine: OHCHR

At least 549 civilians, including 41 children, have been killed in Ukraine since Russian forces invaded on Feb. 24, according to the latest figures from the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR).

Meanwhile, at least 957 civilians, including 52 children, have been injured, OHCHR figures show.

PHOTO: Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022, as people cannot bury the dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces.
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP
Dead bodies are placed into a mass grave on the outskirts of Mariupol, Ukraine, March 9, 2022, as people cannot bury the dead because of the heavy shelling by Russian forces.
Evgeniy Maloletka/AP

The tallies are civilian casualties that occurred in Ukraine from Feb. 24 to March 9 and have been verified by OHCHR, which cautioned that "actual figures are much higher."

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou


Mar 10, 2022 4:31 PM

Goldman Sachs shutting down its operations in Russia

Goldman Sachs announced Thursday that it will be shutting down its operations in Russia.

“Goldman Sachs is winding down its business in Russia in compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements," Goldman Sachs said in a statement.

PHOTO: The Goldman Sachs company logo is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, July 13, 2021.
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The Goldman Sachs company logo is on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, July 13, 2021.
Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters, FILE

The company added, "We are focused on supporting our clients across the globe in managing or closing out pre-existing obligations in the market and ensuring the wellbeing of our people."

-ABC News' Victor Ordoñez



Mar 10, 2022 4:18 PM

Samaritan’s Purse opens outpatient clinic in Lviv

Samaritan’s Purse opened an outpatient clinic just outside the train station in Lviv on Thursday and has already treated its first patients.

Some people have evacuated so quickly they left their homes without their medicine -- and by the time they made it to Lviv they were in desperate need, Mark Agness, an emergency room doctor from California, told ABC News. Pregnant women and newborns are also common.

"That’s why we do this … it’s really the parable of the Good Samaritan. Help thy neighbor -- well they’re my neighbor," said Agness.

Chelsea Musick, a nurse from Iowa, has been with the organization for years and said working in Ukraine is different. Unlike other humanitarian disasters, this was entirely man made, she said. She described the patients she’s seeing as having a "haunted" look in their eyes.

Samaritan’s Purse is also building a large field hospital, which they expect to be operational by the weekend, in the parking garage of a local mall, a few minutes away from the train station. The hospital will have enough room for 15 surgeries a day and will be able to increase beds as needed.

The operation is primarily funded by individual donors from the U.S., the organization said. Two airlifts of supplies have already been coordinated from the U.S.

-ABC News' Irene Hnatiuk, Maggie Rulli and John Templeton


Mar 02, 2022 6:42 PM

Ukraine president praises UN for vote to condemn Russian invasion 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday praised the United Nations General Assembly for its vote to condemn the Russian invasion and call for the withdrawal of Russian troops. 

Zelenskyy called the results of the vote "destructive" for the aggressor, and said it shows "a global anti-Putin coalition has been formed and is functioning."

“I praise the approval by the #UN GA with an unprecedented majority of votes of the resolution with a strong demand to Russia to immediately stop the treacherous attack on. I’m grateful to everyone & every state that voted in favor. You have chosen the right side of history," Zelenskyy said in a tweet. 

"The world is with us. The truth is on our side. Victory will be ours!” Zelenskyy said.


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