- The Red Cross has said the team it sent to facilitate the evacuation of thousands of civilians from Mariupol had been forced to turn around after conditions made it “impossible to proceed”.
- Kyiv’s mayor says “huge” battles are being fought to the north and east of Ukraine’s capital and warns people against returning to the city for now.
- Head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog to lead a mission to Ukraine’s defunct Chernobyl plant “as soon as possible”.
- Moscow says alleged Ukrainian attack on fuel depot in Belgorod does not create “comfortable conditions” for talks between the two sides.
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