Russia-Ukraine war: peace summit enters second day as west looks to put pressure on Russia | Ukraine

A police source told Russia’s state news agency TASS that IS members due to appear in court on terrorism charges were among those taken hostage in Rostov detention center, according to AFP.

Another Russian news agency, Interfax, reported that the hijackers had asked for a car and free passage, citing unidentified sources.

Five men who took hostages at a detention center in Russia’s southern Rostov region claimed to be IS supporters, Reuters reported, citing the Baza Telegram channel, which has sources in Russian law enforcement.

Inmates in pretrial detention took two officers hostage, the Federal Penitentiary Service said Sunday.

“The institution is operating as usual, the situation is under control,” the service said in a message on the Telegram messaging app.

It is added that law enforcement agencies were called to the scene.

Russia’s state news agency RIA reported, citing unidentified sources, that the detainees involved in taking the officials hostage were charged with terrorism.

Traffic is restricted on the roads around the center, Russian agencies reported.

Baza’s report could not be independently verified, but we’ll bring you all the updates as soon as we learn more.

Good morning and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. Western powers and countries from the rest of the world will use the second day of a major summit in Switzerland today to reach a consensus on condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and highlighting concerns about the human cost of war.

A draft of the summit’s final declaration seen by Reuters calls Russia’s invasion “war” – a label Moscow rejects – and calls for restoring Ukraine’s control of the Zaporizhia nuclear plant and its Azov ports.

Moscow presents what it calls its special military operation in Ukraine as part of a wider struggle with the West, which it says wants to bring Russia to its knees. Kiev and the West say Russia is waging an illegal war of conquest.

World leaders including US Vice President Kamala Harris, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron gathered this weekend at a mountain resort in a bid to bolster international support for an end to the war.

Many Western leaders strongly condemned the invasion, citing the UN Charter to protect Ukrainian territorial integrity and rejecting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demands for parts of Ukraine as a condition for peace.

“One thing is clear in this conflict: there is an aggressor, which is Putin, and there is a victim, which is the Ukrainian people,” said Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Here’s a recap of the rest of the day’s events:

• Shortly before leaving for the summit yesterday, the German Chancellor, Olaf Scholz said the G7 leaders did not discuss Vladimir Putin’s proposals for peace in Ukraine because everyone knew they were not serious. Scholz said The Russian president’s proposals — that Ukraine abandon four Russian-claimed provinces, stop fighting and abandon its ambitions for NATO membership — were aimed only at distracting attention from the conference. Kremlin said on Saturday that the West has reacted unconstructively to Putin’s proposals for a new security architecture and peace talks with Ukraine.

• The Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harriswho attended the summit instead of the US president, Joe Biden, announced more than $1.5 billion (£1.2 billion) in aid to Ukraine. The $1.5 billion includes $500 million (£395 million) in new funding for energy assistance and the redirection of $324 million (£256 million) in previously announced funds to urgently repair energy infrastructure and other needs in Ukraine. the vice president’s office announced. She also announced more than $379m (£300m) in humanitarian aid from the State Department and the US Agency for International Development to help refugees and other people affected by the war.

• Prisoners in pretrial detention in the southern region of Russia Rostov took two employees hostage, the Federal Penitentiary Service said Sunday. The five men who took hostages claimed to be Islamic State supporters, the Baza Telegram channel, which has sources in Russian law enforcement, reported on Sunday, according to Reuters.

• Swedish fighter jets intercepted a Russian warplane after it briefly violated Swedish airspace on Friday east of the Baltic island of Gotland, the Nordic country’s armed forces said. Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström, called the airspace violation “unacceptable” and said officials from the Russian embassy in Stockholm would be summoned to his ministry over the incident.

• Peter Pellegrinian ally of Ukraine’s skeptical prime minister Robert Ficosworn in as the new president of Slovakia.