March 27, 2022 Russia-Ukraine news

Our goal is obvious: peace and the restoration of normal life in our native state as soon as possible."During a Sunday call with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan emphasized the need for ceasefire in Ukraine "and peace between Russia and Ukraine as soon as possible," according to the Turkish presidency.From CNN’s Sam FossumUS President Joe Biden told reporters Sunday he was not calling for regime change in Russia in his off-the-cuff remarks a day earlier."No," Biden said, in response to a shouted question from a reporter in the press pool asking if he was calling for regime change.The question stemmed from Biden's comment Saturday at the conclusion of an address delivered outside the Royal Castle in Warsaw, Poland."For God's sake, this man cannot remain in power," Biden said of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Other Biden administration officials have sought to walk back and clarify Biden’s comment. Only missiles, bombs and attempts to wipe Ukraine off the face of the earth,” he said.From CNN's Tim Lister, Celine Alkhaldi, Katerina Krebs and Josh PenningtonVideo has surfaced showing what appear to be Ukrainian soldiers shooting men who are apparently Russian prisoners in the knees during an operation in the Kharkiv region.On the almost six-minute-long video, the Ukrainian soldiers are heard saying they have captured a Russian reconnaissance group operating from Olkhovka, a settlement in Kharkiv roughly 20 miles from the Russian border.Asked about the video, a senior presidential advisor, Oleksiy Arestovych, said in an interview posted on YouTube Sunday: "The government is taking this very seriously, and there will be an immediate investigation. He told CNN he was not associated with the footage that emerged showing Ukrainian troops kneecapping Russian prisoners.“This is not our location … I have not seen such a location,” he told CNN on Sunday.He suggested the video was shot “maybe somewhere in the [Kharkiv] region.”In the first response from Russian authorities, the chairman of the investigative committee of the Russian Federation, A.I. Bastrykin, said an investigation would be launched "to establish all the circumstances of the ill-treatment of captured soldiers by Ukrainian nationalists."In a statement, Bastrykin said: "Footage appeared on the Internet in which prisoners were treated with extreme cruelty by Ukrainian nationalists.