Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy spoke to U.S. President Joe Biden about efforts to curb Russian aggression, after his latest appeal to EU lawmakers to allow Ukraine to join the 27-member bloc.
His outreach comes as fighting continues in several Ukrainian cities and a huge Russian convoy heads toward the capital, Kyiv. Ukraine's government said a strike took out a TV tower in Kyiv.
Meanwhile, Western diplomats and ambassadors walked out of a U.N. Human Rights Council meeting on Tuesday when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's pre-recorded address began to play. A number of officials at the meeting condemned Russia's attack on Ukraine as a violation of international law.