This live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Wednesday, February 22.
- United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has denounced Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a violation of the founding UN Charter and international law.
- US President Joe Biden said Russia’s decision to suspend a nuclear arms reduction treaty with Washington is a “big mistake”.
- Two civilians have been killed in Russian shelling of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, and two others wounded in a missile strike on the northeastern city of Kharkiv.
- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has met with China’s top diplomat Wang Yi in Moscow and hailed the cooperation between the two countries as “very important to stabilise the international situation”.
