{"id":200979,"date":"2026-03-22T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200979\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T02:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T02:42:08","slug":"ukraine-war-briefing-us-ukrainian-negotiators-meet-in-florida-as-russian-attacks-kill-more-civilians-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200979\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine war briefing: US, Ukrainian negotiators meet in Florida as Russian attacks kill more civilians | Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukrainian and US negotiators trying to secure a peace settlement of Russia\u2019s invasion opened their latest round of talks in Florida on Saturday, with more discussions planned through the weekend. Russian representatives did not attend the meeting. \u201cWe continued discussing key issues and the next steps within the negotiation track,\u201d the chief Ukrainian negotiator, Rustem Umerov, posted on X. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met at two sets of US-brokered talks in the United Arab Emirates this year and a round in Geneva last month. Moscow and Kyiv agreed on prisoner exchanges, but no breakthroughs were achieved.<\/p>\n

The White House described the latest meeting as \u201cconstructive\u201d, with discussions \u201cfocused on narrowing and resolving remaining items to move closer to a comprehensive peace agreement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Russian attacks killed four people in south-eastern Ukraine<\/a> and left much of the northern region of Chernihiv without power on Saturday, officials said. Zaporizhzhia governor, Ivan Fedorov, said the morning attack on the city killed a man and a woman, and injured six others, including two children. In the adjacent Dnipropetrovsk region, officials said two people died in an area south-east of the main regional centre, Dnipro. Five people were injured in attacks at multiple places. In his nightly video address, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said power had been cut to parts of Chernihiv region, where efforts were under way to fix damage after a drone strike on an energy facility. Power and water supplies have also been cut to parts of Kyiv.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian forces shelled a public building in Russia\u2019s border region of Belgorod on Saturday, killing four people, the regional governor said. Vyacheslav Gladkov, writing on Telegram, said the attack hit a \u201csocial site\u201d in the village of Smorodino, without giving further details. The bodies of two women were pulled from under rubble, he said. Belgorod has come under frequent Ukrainian attack during the four-year war.<\/p>\n

Authorities in nearly a dozen Russian regions in recent weeks cited various excuses to prevent demonstrations against internet censorship and the blocking of the popular messaging app Telegram. In most cases, they succeeded. Mindful of a crackdown on dissent since the invasion of Ukraine, activists decided not to risk holding unauthorised rallies, even if they weren\u2019t about the war. Some went to court to challenge government refusals to authorise pickets, while others scaled them back to smaller indoor gatherings.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of Czechs filled a large plain in Prague to rally against the government of the billionaire prime minister, Andrej Babi, on Saturday, slamming it for \u201carrogance of power\u201d. The Million Moments for Democracy movement organising the protest has criticised the government for \u201cplaying down\u201d threats from Russia invading Ukraine. Protesters, some carrying Ukrainian flags, criticised its refusal to provide military aid to Ukraine. Babis leads a three-party nationalist cabinet comprising his catch-all ANO party, the far-right SPD and the rightwing Eurosceptic Motorists. \u201c[The government] is doing everything to drag us towards Russia and, together with Hungary and Slovakia, to dent the EU,\u201d Marek Perutka, a conservationist carrying a Ukrainian flag told Agence France-Presse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukrainian and US negotiators trying to secure a peace settlement of Russia\u2019s invasion opened their latest round of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-200979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}