Veteran Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said some progress had been made, particularly in establishing Ukraine as a neutral country. But Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin said Moscow would not be deflected from the aims of its military campaign, while U.S. President Joe Biden described Putin as a war criminal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky acknowledged that his ex-Soviet state had no chance of becoming a member of NATO at least for some time.

Satybaldy was detained as Nazarbayev appeared in public for the first time in more than two months at a diplomatic conference in Turkey and met Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan