Ukraine’s Zelenskiy calls for urgent peace talks and warns of Mariupol catastrophe

Russia has a chance to limit the damage by engaging in meaningful' talks, says Volodymyr Zelenskiy, amid fierce shelling in the south

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Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has called urgently for meaningful and fair" peace talks over Russia's invasion amid further attacks, including a claim by Moscow that it had used a hypersonic missile for the first time, hitting a depot in the west of the country.

In a video address early on Saturday, Zelenskiy said: It's time to meet. Time to talk. It is time to restore territorial integrity and justice for Ukraine. Otherwise Russia's losses will be so huge that several generations will not be enough to rebound."