'Sit down with me to negotiate': Zelenskyy calls on Putin to meet him

Mr Zelenskyy said Russia’s changing tactics and shelling of civilians in cities proved that Ukraine had successfully resisted the invasion so far

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Picture: Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on the Russian president to meet with him as at least 22 civilians have been killed in a Russian airstrike on the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv.

Ukraine’s state emergencies agency said the strike was on a residential area in the city of 280,000 people in Ukraine’s north.