
- The governor of eastern Ukraine’s Luhansk region says Ukrainian forces have been pushed back to the outskirts of Severodonetsk, a strategically important city, by intense Russian bombardment.
- A row between Kyiv and Moscow over grain exports deepens, with both sides trading blame as the spectre of a global food crisis looms amid a Russian blockade of Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
- Ukraine’s prosecutor general announces the country has now opened more than 16,000 investigations into possible war crimes committed by Moscow’s troops.
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