And with that, we wrap up today's coverage of the conflict that rages on in Ukraine. Thank you for joining us today, and do not forget to come back tomorrow, when CNBC-TV18's live coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war will resume. Good night, readers.

Mar 15, 2022 11:45 PM

Here's a quick summary of the day's events:

Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban on Tuesday said his country will not be sending any weapons to Ukraine and will stay out of the war. Orban is facing a tight election race.

US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and other top Canadian government officials have been barred from entering Russia by the Kremlin.

A series of Russian strikes hit a residential neighbourhood in Kyiv on Tuesday morning, igniting a huge fire and prompting a frantic rescue effort in a 15-storey apartment building. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said five people were killed.

More than 100 buses carrying civilians have left the besieged city of Sumy in northeastern Ukraine for a safe area, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said. The evacuation consists of two separate convoys headed towards Poltava, in central Ukraine, ICRC spokesperson Jason Straziuso told Reuters.

Talks between Russia and Ukraine resumed this afternoon, Ukrainian negotiator Mykhailo Podolyak said. On Monday, Podolyak said negotiations had taken a “technical pause” until Tuesday for “additional work in the working subgroups and clarification of individual definitions”.

Biden will attend an EU summit in Brussels next week, an EU official said, according to AFP. Biden will also attend NATO's extraordinary summit on March 24.

Nearly 100 children have died in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said in a virtual address to Canadian lawmakers. Zelenskyy pleaded for Canada and its allies to do more to stop the Russian invasion of his country, including establishing a no-fly zone as civilian casualties mount.

There are reports that Russian forces have taken patients and medical staff of a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as hostages. Local media reported that Russian troops drove 400 people from neighbouring houses to the hospital, on the outskirts of Mariupol.

A woman who interrupted a live news programme on Russian state TV last night to protest against the war in Ukraine has been fined 30,000 roubles (£215) by a Russian court. Marina Ovsyannikova, a Russian television producer, was found guilty of flouting protest legislation, the Russian state news agency RIA reported. She said she was questioned for more than 14 hours by the law enforcement authorities.

Russian prosecutors have asked a court to move jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to a maximum security prison after requesting that he serve 13 years in prison on new fraud charges, AFP reported. Navalny, Vladimir Putin’s most vocal critic in Russia, was jailed last year for parole violations related to charges he says were trumped up.

The UK is to impose sanctions on 370 more Russian individuals, including more than 50 oligarchs and their families with a combined net worth of £100 billion. More than 1,000 individuals and entities have now been targeted with sanctions since the invasion of Ukraine, with fresh measures announced against key Kremlin spokespeople and political allies of Putin, including the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu.

More than 100,000 people have offered homes to Ukrainian refugees in the first 24 hours of a government scheme that allows families and individuals to bring them to the UK. The website for registering interest in the scheme crashed for a short while because of the numbers offering help.

Mar 15, 2022 11:43 PM

Hungary not to send weapons to Ukraine, says PM Orban

Hungary will not send any weapons to Ukraine and will stay out of the war, Prime Minister Viktor Orban told a rally of his supporters on Tuesday, accusing the opposition of trying to drag Hungary into the conflict on its eastern border. The conservative nationalist leader has a tight race for election to a fourth consecutive term on April 3 because for the first time since 2010 his right-wing Fidesz party will face a united front of six opposition parties. Orban's path to re-election is complicated by Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has put his decade-long close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a new light, drawing sharp criticism from the opposition.

Addressing a rally of tens of thousands of supporters who waved the Hungarian national flag in front of parliament, Orban said, "Russia looks at Russian interests, while Ukraine looks at Ukrainian interests. Neither the United States, nor Brussels would think with Hungarians' mind and feel with Hungarians' hearts. We must stand up for our own interests. We must stay out of this war ... therefore we will not send any troops or weapons to the battlegrounds."

Mar 15, 2022 11:29 PM

Three EU leaders to meet Zelenskyy shortly

The prime ministers of Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovenia are scheduled to meet with Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv at 18:00 GMT, Czech media is reporting, as per the BBC.

The three leaders intend to present a broad package of support for Ukraine following a symbolic trip that is intended to show European solidarity with the Ukrainian people. The three prime ministers reportedly crossed the border into Ukraine this morning before travelling to the capital overland by train.

The visit comes as Russia continues it's attacks on Kyiv - where a curfew lasting until Thursday will shortly come into effect. It is not known how the curfew will impact the leaders' visit.

Mar 15, 2022 11:26 PM

Ukrainians unite against 'new Swatika'

Posters are being put up in cities and towns in Ukraine denouncing Russia's invasion of the country. The posters have likened the 'Z' -- the Kremlin's symbol of its invasion of Ukraine -- to the Nazi Swastika.

Mar 15, 2022 11:24 PM

Ukrainian refugee count crosses 3 million

More than 3 million people have fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion began, the UN says. According to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), 3,000,381 people have left the country since February 24th, a total it expects to rise to at least 4 million. The number of people displaced within Ukraine is estimated at 1.85m, the UN said last week – a number that could reach nearly 7 million in coming months.

Mar 15, 2022 11:20 PM

Biden will be at NATO meet

US President Joe Biden will travel to NATO's headquarters in Brussels next week for an extraordinary summit of the alliance, the US mission to NATO wrote on Twitter on Tuesday.

Mar 15, 2022 10:54 PM

NATO nations to meet in Brussels on March 24

NATO leaders will meet in Brussels on March 24 to discuss Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the alliance's chief wrote on Twitter. "I have convened an extraordinary Summit on 24 March at NATO HQ," NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg wrote. "We will address Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, our strong support for Ukraine, and further strengthening NATO’s deterrence & defence. At this critical time, North America & Europe must continue to stand together."

Mar 15, 2022 10:42 PM

Russia bans Canada's PM, foreign minister and defence minister

Russia has banned Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly and Canadian Defense Minister Anita Anand from entering the country, the Russian Foreign Ministry tweeted on Tuesday. These individuals, as of March 15, are on a "black list," the tweet explains.

Mar 15, 2022 10:31 PM

Kyiv mayor asks pope to make peace plea in Ukrainian capital

The mayor of the Ukrainian capital Kyiv has urged Pope Francis to travel to the city even in the current circumstances, saying his presence there was "key" to saving lives and achieving peace. A letter by Vitaliy Klitschko to the pope followed earlier invitations by Ukraine's Byzantine-rite Catholic leader and Ukraine's ambassador to the Vatican.

In a statement, the Vatican confirmed that the pope had received the letter, which was dated March 8. It said the pope was praying for Ukrainians but made no mention of the invitation or a trip. "We believe that (the pope's) presence in person in Kyiv is key for saving lives and paving the path to peace in our city, country and beyond," Klitschko wrote.

He said Kyiv was ready to offer any help needed. If a visit was not possible, the mayor suggested a live or recorded video conference also including President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. "We appeal to you, as a spiritual leader, to show your compassion, to stand with the Ukrainian people by jointly spreading the call for peace," the letter said.

Mar 15, 2022 10:25 PM

Russian forces take patients, staff hostage at Mariupol hospital: Reports

There are reports that Russian forces have taken patients and medical staff of a hospital in the besieged Ukrainian city of Mariupol as hostages, reports the Guardian. According to the BBC, Mariupol’s deputy mayor Sergei Orlov said: "We received information that the Russian army captured our biggest hospital... and they’re using our patients and doctors like hostages."

Mar 15, 2022 10:20 PM

Ukraine says seven bodies found after air strike on school on Sunday

Seven bodies have been found in the rubble of a school building in the Mykolayiv region of southern Ukraine after it was hit in a Russian air strike on Sunday morning, the Ukrainian emergencies service said on Tuesday. Three wounded people had been pulled out of the rubble, it said in a statement. Rescue and recovery work at the site is now finished, it said.

Mar 15, 2022 9:55 PM

Russia imposes sanctions on US President Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken

Russia has imposed personal sanctions on President Joe Biden and representatives of the US leadership and persons associated with them on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "In response to a series of unprecedented sanctions prohibiting, among other things, entry into the United States for senior officials of the Russian Federation...From March 15, President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, Secretary of Defense L. Austin and 10 others are included in the Russian 'stop list' and are to be sanctioned in retaliation and are barred from entering Russia," The Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

Mar 15, 2022 9:51 PM

Fox News photographer killed in Ukraine

Fox News photographer Pierre Zakrzewski was killed in Ukraine when the vehicle he was travelling in with reporter Benjamin Hall was struck by incoming fire, Fox News said on Tuesday. Hall has been hospitalised since the incident on Monday, which happened when they were newsgathering in Horenka, outside of Kyiv, the network said.

As a war photographer, Zakrzewski had covered conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria for Fox, according to a memo sent to Fox employees by Suzanne Scott, CEO of Fox News Media. His passion and talent as a journalist were unmatched, Scott said.

Mar 15, 2022 9:42 PM

New US sanctions target more in Putin's power structure

New U.S. sanctions Tuesday target more individuals in Russian President Vladimir Putins power structure, including tougher penalties against the leader of Kremlin-allied Belarus and his family. Other new sanctions Tuesday target a judge and investigator in Russia's prosecution of two outspoken critics of alleged corruption and rights abuses.

Some of Tuesday's sanctions were brought under the Magnitsky Act, a 2012 act of Congress that authorizes sanctions against those engaged in human rights abuses. Tuesday's sanctions show the U.S. going after more individual officials after laying down some of the toughest sanctions of modern times against Russian institutions and top figures over Putin's nearly 3-week-old invasion of Ukraine.

Todays designations demonstrate the United States will continue to impose concrete and significant consequences for those who engage in corruption or are connected to gross violations of human rights, a Treasury official, Andrea Gacki, said in a statement

Mar 15, 2022 9:15 PM

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