- The United Kingdom says British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has travelled to Kyiv to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen says Russian forces appear to have committed war crimes by targeting civilians in Ukraine.
- The deadly attack on a train station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk draws international condemnation and calls for accountability.
- Ukrainian officials say at least 52 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in the attack, for which Russia has denied responsibility.
- Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa has imposed a weekend curfew over what it said was a Russian “missile strike threat”.
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