Despite President Joe Biden saying Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn't have a "way out," State Department spokesperson Ned Price insisted the U.S. is providing the Kremlin with a "very simple" and "straightforward" exit strategy through genuine diplomacy.

"The State Department, this administration, provided an off ramp well before President Putin decided to launch this war against Ukraine … it has not closed," Price said.

The problem, Price said, was that Russia continues to show no interest in that route.

Price repeated that one area where the U.S. was not willing to give over any ground was the potential expansion of the NATO alliance.

"NATO's open door means an open door. That is important to us and it is nonnegotiable," he insisted.

-ABC News' Shannon Crawford

President Joe Biden said the war in Ukraine is an opportunity for American farmers to step in to address shortages caused by the invasion.

"We can make sure the American agriculture imports will make up for the gap in Ukrainian supplies," Biden told a group at a farm in Illinois on Wednesday.

Biden said to the farmers, "With Putin's war in Ukraine, you're like the backbone of freedom."

The president pointed the finger at Russia for preventing Ukraine from shipping wheat to the rest of the world.

Biden noted: “Ukraine was the world's largest producer of wheat and corn and cooking oil -- but wheat, the largest. … Ukraine says they have 20 million tons of grain in their silos right now ... because of what the Russians are doing in the Black Sea, Putin has warships, battleships preventing access to the Ukrainian ports to get this grain out, to get this wheat out."

“The brutal war launched on Ukrainian soil has prevented Ukrainian farmers from planting next year's crop and next year's harvest,” he added.

-ABC News' Ben Gittleson

One person has been killed and six others are injured from shelling in the Solokhi village in Belgorod, Russia, according to Belgorod Gov. Vyacheslav Gladkov. A 14-year-old boy is among the injured, the governor said.

This area is less than 7 miles from the Russia-Ukraine border.

Gladkov said the shelling originated from Ukraine's side of the border and that this was the most serious incident since Ukrainian forces began firing on the region. Ukrainian authorities have not confirmed that Ukrainian forces are firing on Russia's side of the border.

As Sweden and Finland consider NATO memberships, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed new security pacts with the leaders of both nations on Wednesday, ensuring the U.K. could give military support even if the countries are not NATO members.

Johnson said the invasion of Ukraine "sadly" opened a new chapter.

"Our armed forces will train, operate and exercise together -- marrying our defense and security capabilities and formalizing a pledge that we will always come to one another’s aid," he said at a news conference.

-ABC News' Christine Theodorou

Jalina Porter, the State Department's deputy spokesperson, is responding to the Russian attack at a Ukraine train station that killed at least 50, saying, "We can no longer be surprised by the Kremlin's repugnant disregard for human life."

Five children were among those killed when Russian rockets struck the station in Kramatorsk in Donetsk Oblast on Friday morning, according to Ukraine's state-owned railway company. At least 100 people were injured, according to Donetsk Oblast Gov. Pavlo Kyrylenko.

Russia has denied involvement in the attack, which occurred as "thousands" of civilians fleeing the Russian invasion were at the train station waiting to be taken to "safer regions of Ukraine," according to Kyrylenko.

"Civilians are killed when they stay in their homes, and they're killed when they try to leave," Porter said. "Actions like these demonstrate why Russia did not belong on the U.N. Human Rights Council, and they also reinforce the U.S. assessment that members of Russian forces are committing war crimes in Ukraine."

Porter declined to say if the department considers the train station attack a war crime, saying, "Assessing individual criminal liability in specific cases is the responsibility of courts, as well as other investigatory bodies. But as the secretary, Secretary [of State Antony] Blinken, has said, 'Those responsible for war crimes and other atrocities committed in Ukraine will be held to account.'"

-ABC News' Conor Finnegan