Summary
That’s all the live coverage for now. We’ll be back soon with more. Some key developments from the day:
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced that dozens of regions in Ukraine have been liberated from Russian occupation, appearing to confirm information from Russia’s maps that show Russia withdrawing from eastern and western Ukraine.
US president Joe Biden told the Ukrainian president that Washington will provide Kyiv with $625m (£544m) in new security assistance, including High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (Himars) launchers.
Two women in Russia-annexed Crimea, including Miss Crimea, have been found guilty of discrediting the Russian army by singing a patriotic Ukrainian song.
About 2,000 videos, photographs and audio files of alleged war crimes captured through an app designed to create verifiable evidence have been submitted to the United Nations mandated international commission of inquiry (UN COI) on Ukraine.
European Union finance ministers agreed to integrate the EU’s support payments to Ukraine into its 2023 budget to make payments more structured and predictable.
Ukraine’s economy will shrink at a rate eight times that of Russia this year as a result of the war triggered by Moscow’s invasion in February, the World Bank has estimated.
The operators of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea that had major leaks last week said that restrictions imposed by Danish and Swedish officials had prevented them from inspecting the damaged sections, Reuters reports.
Europe is continuing to investigate the cause of the leak of the gas pipelines near Swedish and Danish waters. Denmark and Sweden have said the leaks were caused by blasts equivalent to “several hundred kilograms of explosive”, with the UN environment programme saying the ruptures likely caused the biggest single release on record of climate-damaging methane.
Reuters has the latest developments:
Nord Stream 2 AG, Switzerland-based operator of that gas pipeline, said on Tuesday it will examine the condition of the leaking pipelines once a police investigation of the “crime scene” is completed and a cordon is lifted.
Later on Tuesday, Nord Stream AG, operator of the older Nord Stream 1 pipeline, said they had been told by Danish authorities that receiving the necessary permits to carry out an inspection could take over 20 working days.
Nord Stream AG also said that the Norwegian ministry of foreign affairs had not given permission for a ship to depart to investigate the damage, CNN reported. More from last week:
