- Moscow seeks to shift the blame onto Western countries for a growing food crisis that has been worsened by Kyiv’s inability to ship millions of tonnes of grain and other agricultural products due to the conflict.
- Ukrainian military says Moscow has the advantage in the fight in the eastern Luhansk region.
- British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of holding the world to ransom over food.
- Ukraine’s military claims Russian forces shelled more than 40 towns in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region.
- Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy strongly rebuffs former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and others in the West who have suggested Ukraine should cede control of areas occupied by Russian forces for the sake of reaching a peace agreement.
- The Russian defence ministry is promising to open a safe corridor to allow foreign ships to leave Black Sea ports, with another corridor to allow ships to leave Mariupol.
