Russia-Ukraine updates: Putin says 'certain positive movements' in negotiations
A third round of talks between Russia and Ukraine ended without any resolution.
Russian forces are continuing their attempted push through Ukraine from multiple directions, while Ukrainians, led by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, are putting up "stiff resistance," according to U.S. officials.
The attack began Feb. 24, when Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a "special military operation."
Russian forces moving from neighboring Belarus toward Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, have advanced closer to the city center in recent days despite the resistance, coming within about 9 miles as of Friday.
Russia has been met by sanctions from the United States, Canada and countries throughout Europe, targeting the Russian economy as well as Putin himself.
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- Ukrainian air force claims Russia carried out false flag airstrike in Belarus
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- Putin claims 'certain positive movements' in Ukraine negotiations
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Goldman Sachs shutting down its operations in Russia
Goldman Sachs announced Thursday that it will be shutting down its operations in Russia.
“Goldman Sachs is winding down its business in Russia in compliance with regulatory and licensing requirements," Goldman Sachs said in a statement.
The company added, "We are focused on supporting our clients across the globe in managing or closing out pre-existing obligations in the market and ensuring the wellbeing of our people."
-ABC News' Victor Ordoñez
Samaritan’s Purse opens outpatient clinic in Lviv
Samaritan’s Purse opened an outpatient clinic just outside the train station in Lviv on Thursday and has already treated its first patients.
Some people have evacuated so quickly they left their homes without their medicine -- and by the time they made it to Lviv they were in desperate need, Mark Agness, an emergency room doctor from California, told ABC News. Pregnant women and newborns are also common.
"That’s why we do this … it’s really the parable of the Good Samaritan. Help thy neighbor -- well they’re my neighbor," said Agness.
Chelsea Musick, a nurse from Iowa, has been with the organization for years and said working in Ukraine is different. Unlike other humanitarian disasters, this was entirely man made, she said. She described the patients she’s seeing as having a "haunted" look in their eyes.
Samaritan’s Purse is also building a large field hospital, which they expect to be operational by the weekend, in the parking garage of a local mall, a few minutes away from the train station. The hospital will have enough room for 15 surgeries a day and will be able to increase beds as needed.
The operation is primarily funded by individual donors from the U.S., the organization said. Two airlifts of supplies have already been coordinated from the U.S.
-ABC News' Irene Hnatiuk, Maggie Rulli and John Templeton
For one Ukrainian poet, the sword is mightier than the pen
In a college gym-turned-shelter, Kyrill Nodikov, a Ukrainian poet who has been published in Ukraine and Russia, told ABC News he and his 20-year-old son are ready to enlist in the war.
Nodikov was seeking refuge in a shelter with his wife, their three kids, a dog and a tabby cat.
There are thousands of families struggling with the same dilemma: whether to take their animals, which makes their exodus far more complicated, or leave them behind. Most have stayed loyal to their animals.
When asked what it would be like to take care of her twins and pets by herself, Oksana, Nodikov's wife, started crying.
Sitting on mats on the floor of the gymnasium, the family gathered in a huddle, hugging, holding and comforting Oksana. And then they did the Ukrainian version of a pinky promise: hooking their pinkies and saying, “Peace, friendship, bubble gum."
-ABC News' Matt Gutman, Brandon Baur and Scott Munro
Russia claims to have seized several neighborhoods in Mariupol
Russia-backed forces have allegedly seized several neighborhoods in Mariupol amid an ongoing operation to "liberate" the southeastern Ukrainian port city.
"The operation to liberate the city of Mariupol of nationalists has been continuing," Russian Ministry of Defense spokesman Igor Konashenkov said at a press briefing. "Donetsk People's Republic militia units have taken control of the neighborhoods of Azovsky, Naidenivka, Lyapyne, and Vynohradar and approached the Azovstal plant. The western neighborhood in the western part of the city has been liberated."
The self-declared Donetsk People's Republic is one of two Russia-controlled separatist areas in eastern Ukraine's Donbas region.
136 civilian deaths reported
A spokesperson for the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights said 136 civilians have been killed in Ukraine, including 13 children.
Another 400 Ukrainian civilians have been wounded, spokesperson Liz Throssell said.