
- Discussions between Turkey, Finland and Sweden about the Nordic countries’ NATO membership will continue, and an alliance summit in Madrid next week is not a deadline, Turkey says after talks in Brussels.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claims that Africa is being “held hostage” by Russia’s offensive as fears of a food crisis on the continent grow due to Moscow’s blockade of Black Sea ports.
- Ukrainian troops have “lost control” over the village of Metolkine, near the embattled city of Severodonetsk, according to the governor of Luhansk.
- Russia’s defence ministry declares its forces have struck an airfield in Ukraine’s southwestern Odesa region, destroying drones and a drone control station.
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