Russian President Vladimir Putin says diplomatic efforts to defuse tensions over Ukraine and the Kremlin's security demands are not yet exhausted and he believes they should be intensified.
The Russian leader was speaking during a meeting with his foreign minister and other government advisers.
The German Chancellor Olaf Scholtz has visited President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv today and will meet President Putin at the Kremlin tomorrow.
In Kyiv, some foreign nationals are leaving the country but residents say there is no great sense of panic.
Vasil Filipchuk is a Ukrainian diplomat and former spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv.
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Ukrainian diplomat Vasil Filipchuk says many people in the country's capital do not believe that the Russian President would risk a full-scale invasion.
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