On February 24, after Russia had amassed more than 150,000 troops around Ukraine's border over the weeks prior, Russian forces attacked Ukraine by air and have continued a sustained ground assault across the country, with fighting nearing Kyiv in the past days.

 

Russia and Ukraine's leadership met for negotiations in Belarus on Monday but did not come to any immediate resolutions.

 

Accurate civilian death tolls have been difficult to confirm, and according to the Associated Press, on Monday, the UN claimed that 64 people had died and that 240 were wounded after the first week of fighting.