Thanks for following our live coverage of the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Much of the focus today has been in Germany, where Volodymyr Zelenskyy was joined by European allies at the annual Munich Security Conference.<\/p>\n
In his address, Ukraine’s president said he hoped upcoming peace talks in Geneva would be “serious” and that he would raise the idea of an energy ceasefire with the delegations there.<\/p>\n
On the status of the peace process, Zelenskyy said the US has told Ukraine that an end to the fighting can come “as quickly as possible” if Kyiv withdraws from the Donbas.<\/p>\n
He later added that Washington is “too often” asking for Ukraine, not Russia, to make concessions during peace talks.<\/p>\n
You can watch Zelenskyy’s full address in Munich here:<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, the UK and other allies have claimed that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died in prison in Russia after being poisoned with a deadly toxin found in the skin of Ecuadorian dart frogs.<\/p>\n
The “barbaric” act – using a neurotoxin that is classed as a chemical weapon – could only have been carried out by Vladimir Putin’s government, they said.<\/p>\n
The Kremlin was quick to hit back at the claims, saying they are part of a “disinformation campaign” against Moscow and make “a mockery of the dead”.<\/p>\n
Watch: How could Navalny have been killed by toxin of poisonous frog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks for following our live coverage of the war in Ukraine. Much of the focus today has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-469415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}