Ukraine live updates: Zelensky in daily talks with Russia amid attacks

He urged Ukraine’s regions not to follow the path of two eastern areas – Donetsk People’s Republic and the Luhansk People’s Republic – where pro-Russian separatists clashed with Ukrainian forces in 2014.►An estimated 1,300 Ukrainian troops have been killed since Russia began its invasion, according to Zelenskyy, who claims 12,000 Russian forces have been killed.►Kyiv is preparing for a possible blockade by stockpiling humanitarian supplies to support the city's residents, city officials said Sunday.►Almost 2.7 million Ukrainians have fled the country, the U.N. refugee agency said.Europe saw tens of thousands of people rallying Sunday in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.In Milan, Italy’s financial capital, protesters held bloodied cloth bundles to represent Ukrainian children killed in Russian attacks. They exchanged views on the continuation of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine," CNN also reported.The two leaders are expected to talk again later this week.The talks come a day after he and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin urging an immediate ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the conflict in Ukraine.The newly installed mayor in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city Melitopol said "Russian TV channels" would be broadcasting in the region soon.Galina Danilchenko said in a televised video Sunday claimed there was "a great deficit of trustworthy information being circulated," as the decision for the broadcasting, according to CNN. The developments comes as Jake Sullivan, the White House national security adviser, is scheduled to meet on Monday with senior Chinese foreign policy adviser Yang Jiechi in Rome.“We are communicating directly, privately to Beijing that there will absolutely be consequences for large-scale sanctions evasion efforts or support to Russia to backfill them,” Sullivan told CNN on Sunday.“We will not allow that to go forward and allow there to be a lifeline to Russia from these economic sanctions from any country, anywhere in the world,” he added.American photojournalist Brent Renaud was killed Sunday in Ukraine when Russian soldiers opened fire on a car in Irpin, a town 30 miles outside the capital of Kyiv.A second American journalist, Juan Arredondo was rushed to a hospital with shrapnel wounds, police said.Arredondo, 46, told Italian journalist Annalisa Camilli in an interview from a hospital that the two men were filming refugees fleeing the area when their car rolled up to a checkpoint and the Russians began shooting. "The only thing to be done is to cease the unacceptable armed aggression before the city is reduced to a cemetery."Russia could be preparing to use chemical weapons in Ukraine, an act that would draw a "severe price," White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan warned Sunday.Sullivan told CBS News that Russian rhetoric is increasingly claiming the Ukrainians and Americans will potentially use chemical or biological weapons "and that's an indicator that, in fact, the Russians are getting ready to do it, and try and pin the blame elsewhere and nobody should fall for that."Asked what consequences would result, he said he would not go beyond what President Joe Biden indicated on Friday: "They will pay a severe price.""We have communicated that directly to the Russians," he said on NBC News' "Meet the Press."Russian yacht owners are encountering rough seas around the world as nations sympathetic to Ukraine's plight press sanctions that include impounding assets of Russia's wealthy class. Taking Mariupol and other ports on the Azov Sea could allow Russia to establish a land corridor to Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014.Since Russian attacks on Ukraine began, 85 children have died, the Ukrainian government said Sunday morning. Forli’ is in the region of Emilia-Romagna, which borders the Adriatic Sea and which so far has taken in about 7,000 refugees.The accident is under investigation.A Russian general was killed in fighting at Ukraine's southern city Mariupol, Ukrainian officials said.Maj. Gen.