President Zelenskyy calls for peace talks with Russia without delay, warning Moscow that Ukraine can inflict losses that would be felt for generations

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for peace talks with Russia to stop the invasion.

I want everyone to hear me in Moscow. The time has come for a meeting. He said it was time to talk about justice for Ukraine. Zelenskyy said in a video address that it would take several generations to recover from Russia's losses.

Despite harrowing images from Ukraine showing besieged cities and a refugee crisis, Russia has been surprised by the strength of the Ukrainian opposition.

The UK intelligence recently stated that the Russian advance on Ukraine had stopped and that the US intelligence said that 7,000 Russian soldiers had been killed in the fighting.

Russian forces have continued to lay waste to cities and towns across Ukraine, with Mairupol, a city in southeastern Ukraine, seeing its maternity hospitals, cinemas, steel plants, and homes obliterated.

The governor of the eastern Luhansk religion wrote on Telegram that a humanitarian corridor would open on Saturday.

Humanitarian corridors and ceasefires have failed before, including in the besieged Mariupol.