Chris Smith chats to Nine correspondent ALISON PIOTROWSKI in Washington DC on the overnight developments in the Russian/Ukraine conflict

In the past 24 hours there were some significant meetings and talks between the US and Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a “desperate plea” to more than 300 US senators in a phone call, to help his country get more planes to help the country fight the Russian invasion. US Secretary ANTONY BLINKEN held a press conference with Ukrainian Foreign Minister DMYTRO KULEBA at the Ukrainian/Polish border. And then the ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Naftali Bennett met PUTIN at the Kremlin in a rare moment of diplomacy. And all this was happening while PUTIN was threatening that western sanctions were akin to declaration of war and warning that any attempt to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine will lead to catastrophic consequences for the world. Alison Piotrowski has all the details and inside knowledge on these significant developments in the conflict.

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