Kyiv: Ukraine has urged China, a close ally of Russia to condemn ‘Russian barbarism’  against its country, the war entered its fourth week.

Ukraine's appeals come to China after the US warned Beijing to face the consequences of its tacit support to the Russian invasion on Ukraine.

Ukraine called on China to join the West in condemning "Russian barbarism". Moscow has stated that it has destroyed a Ukrainian arms depot with hypersonic missiles.

Dozens of soldiers were killed after Russian troops bombing Ukrainian military barracks in the southern city of Mykolaiv while a rescue operation was underway, NDTV reported.

The UN human rights office (OHCHR) said at least 847 civilians had been killed and 1,399 wounded in Ukraine as of March 18. The Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said that 112 children have been killed so far.

Russia's war in Ukraine is driven by "devastating madness", and Switzerland is prepared to pay the price for defending freedom and democracy, Swiss President Ignazio Cassis said.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson too condemned the Russian barbarian attack on Ukraine, said that it would be a mistake to normalise relations with President Vladimir Putin following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. "To try to re-normalise relations with Putin after this, as we did in 2014, would be to make exactly the same mistake again," Johnson told a Conservative Party conference.

Ukraine will receive a new shipment of US weapons within days, including Javelin and Stinger missiles, Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council Secretary Oleksiy Danilov said

President Volodymyr Zelensky called on for comprehensive peace talks with Moscow to stop its invasion of Ukraine, saying it would otherwise take Russia "several generations" to recover from its losses in the war.

More than 3.3 million refugees have now fled Ukraine since the Russian invasion, while nearly 6.5 million are thought to be internally displaced within the country, the UN refugee agency said.

Nine people were killed and 17 wounded in shelling of the suburbs of the city of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, deputy mayor Anatoliy Kurtiev said on Saturday. The military has since declared a 38-hour curfew in Zaporizhzhia, which was being attacked by Russian forces with mortars, tanks, helicopters, and rocket systems