What happened in Ukraine today, Tuesday, March 29?
The regional government headquarters of Mykolaiv, Ukraine, following a Russian attack today. Picture: AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris
Ukrainian and Russian officials held a four-hourlong meeting in Istanbul today as part of a fresh round of peace talks.
Speaking after the meeting - the first between the two sides for more than two weeks - Russian Deputy Defence Minister Alexander Fomin told reporters that "the necessary conditions for further negotiations and achieving the ultimate goal of agreeing and signing (an) agreement, a decision was made to radically, by a large margin, reduce military activity in the Kyiv and Chernihiv directions."
