It’s just gone 19.15 in Kyiv, and here’s a roundup of the day’s events.
South Korea’s president, Yoon Suk-yeol, has pledged to increase his country’s humanitarian and non-lethal military assistance to Ukraine after a summit with Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv.
Russia’s FSB security service said on Saturday it had thwarted alleged Ukrainian-backed plots to kill two prominent Russian journalists, Interfax news agency reported.
Ukrainian forces said they had downed 10 Russian drones across the country on Friday and overnight, the air force said.
Russia’s military leadership is likely to face an increasing problem in being directly criticised by subordinates, according to the UK Ministry of Defence.
A top Ukrainian general has reported new progress on the war’s southern front, saying his troops are “systematically moving the enemy out of their positions”.
That is all for today – thank you for following along. For more updates, follow our live coverage tomorrow.
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