- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy calls for more heavy weapons and tougher Russia sanctions in speech to Portuguese parliament.
- US President Joe Biden announces new $800m military aid package for Ukraine, saying it would help Kyiv in the fight against Russian forces in the Donbas region.
- Zelenskyy says Russia controls most of port city of Mariupol, but Ukrainian troops remain stationed there.
- Kyiv is appealing for a humanitarian corridor to be opened immediately to allow civilians and wounded fighters to be evacuated from the Azovstal plant in Mariupol.
- President Vladimir Putin has hailed Russia’s “liberation” of Mariupol, despite a last remaining Ukrainian stronghold in the Azovstal steel plant.
- Governor of Luhansk says Russia now controls 80 percent of the eastern region.
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