- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has welcomed a sixth package of European Union sanctions against Russia but criticised what he called an “unacceptable” delay in the bloc agreeing with the latest measures.
- A Ukrainian court sentences two captured Russian soldiers to 11-and-a-half years in jail for war crimes.
- Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai says a Russian airstrike has hit a nitric acid tank in Severodonetsk, which is mostly under Russian control.
- The mayor of Mariupol says city staff have discovered 25 new grave trenches where bodies were being placed in “layers” and that Russian occupiers have buried at least 16,000 residents in mass graves near the city since the middle of April.
- The Kremlin reveals Russia’s Vladimir Putin told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that Moscow is ready to facilitate the unhindered export of grain from Ukrainian ports in coordination with Turkey.
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