- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has announced that he arrived in Kyiv following talks in Moscow.
- President Vladimir Putin warns foreign powers against “interference” in Ukraine, says Russia is prepared to use weapons if faced with threats to security.
- Kyiv says Russian troops have seized two towns in the Donbas, where Moscow has focused the new phase of its offensive, and a pair of villages in Kharkiv.
- Polish president accuses Russian energy giant Gazprom of violating “basic legal principles” by halting exports to Poland and Bulgaria over gas-for-roubles payment dispute.
- Authorities in Transnistria, Moldova’s Russia-backed breakaway region, allege shots were fired into the territory from Ukraine overnight.
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