Live news: Biden tempers comments as Ukraine, Russia try to talk

Live news updates Ukraine and Russia’s negotiating teams are expected to resume in-person talks this week, as President Joe Biden tried to temper comments calling for Vladimir Putin’s impeachment by saying the United States was not seeking regime change at Moscow.

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned of an escalation in ‘words or actions’, a day after Biden said the Russian president ‘cannot stay in power’, and previously called Putin a ‘butcher’ . The comments “narrow the window of opportunity to normalize dialogue, so needed now, with the current US administration,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in response.

: A group representing employees of state-owned banks will join central trade unions in a national strike on Monday and Tuesday to protest against the government’s economic policies.

The unions, after a meeting of their common platform, announced on March 22 the strike against “anti-worker, anti-peasant, anti-popular and anti-national policies”. The All India Bank Employees Association will support the strike in protest against the government’s plan to privatize state-owned lenders and the Banking Laws Amendment Bill 2021.