Chair of Kyiv parliament's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee argues Russian leader using negotiations as cover to regroup, urges Israel to provide air defense systems

Pointing to similarities between war-stricken countries, investigators say Russian and Syrian forces continue to 'indiscriminately bomb densely populated areas'

US Embassy source says Washington supports PM's diplomacy; stresses there is no 'red line' that would bring about American military intervention

Young Kyiv-based violinists, filming themselves between shelling and explosions, are joined by fiddlers from around the world in a moving rendition of a Ukrainian folk song

In addition to children, most other refugees are women, since Ukrainian men aged 18-60 aren't permitted to leave the country

Ceasefire agreed on to allow escape from Mariupol, Sumy, Enerhodar, Volnovakha, Izyum and several towns around Kyiv; Ukraine president demands West make decision over warplanes

Energy operator says site 'fully disconnected from the power grid,' adding that military operations mean 'there is no possibility to restore the lines'

Brief interview with Diaspora Minister Shai; senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur on race and responses to Ukraine; health reporter Nathan Jeffay with a blitz of new Israeli research

Bruno Le Maire warns Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions on crude will send prices to record highs not seen since OPEC embargo following the 1973 conflict

Kind gestures of strangers handing out flowers do little to ease the suffering of anxious refugees who fled their homes in face of Russian invasion, many with small children in tow