Closing summary
It’s 11pm in Kyiv. Here’s where things stand:
Ukraine said it has filed lawsuits at the World Trade Organization against its three EU neighbours – Poland, Slovakia and Hungary – over their bans on Ukrainian grain imports.
A top Ukrainian general hailed the recent recapture of two eastern villages, Andriivka and Klishchiivka, as an important breakthrough on Monday, saying it had enabled Kyiv’s troops to breach Russian lines near the shattered city of Bakhmut.
The Russian foreign ministry said it summoned French ambassador Pierre Levy to protest over what it called the “discriminatory and openly Russophobic” actions of French authorities against Russian journalists at the recent G20 summit in New Delhi.
The Moscow-installed governor of the Russian-held part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region confirmed on Monday a blast at the local government headquarters, but said that no one had been killed or injured.
People’s rights in Russia have substantially worsened since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine last year, a top UN expert said.
The Ukrainian government decided to dismiss six deputy defence ministers following the appointment of a new defence minister earlier this month.
The office of the Brazilian presidency has confirmed reports that President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva will meet his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, on the sidelines of the UN general assembly in New York on Wednesday.
Overnight Ukraine claims to have shot down all 17 cruise missiles fired into its territory by Russia. The air force also earlier reported that 18 out of 24 “Shahed” drones were downed.
A drone carrying explosives that landed in the Bulgarian town of Tyulenovo was destroyed in a controlled explosion, the defence ministry said. The drone landed on Sunday evening in the Black Sea town situated 70km from the Romanian border and across the sea from Crimea.
Georgia’s security services accused a former minister of plotting from Ukraine to overthrow the Black Sea nation’s government by organising mass unrest.
China’s top diplomat began several days of security consultations with Russian officials. The foreign minister, Wang Yi, will be in Russia through to Thursday for strategic security consultations, the foreign ministry said in a brief statement.
The Ukrainian president said his forces have recaptured the strategically important village of Klishchiivka on the southern flank of the key frontline city of Bakhmut.
Here are some images from the newswires from the village of Andriivka near Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine, which has recently been recaptured by Ukrainian ground forces.
Ukraine says its forces also recaptured the tactically important village of Klishchiivka. Both settlements were substantially destroyed in months of fighting for Bakhmut.
