
- Russian President Vladimir Putin cautions German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron against providing Ukraine with heavy weapons in an 80-minute phone call.
- Putin says he’s ready to look at ways to ship grains stuck in Ukraine’s ports, but demands the West lifts sanctions first.
- Scholz and Macron urge Putin to free 2,500 Azovstal fighters.
- Russia’s army claims it has captured the strategic town of Lyman in eastern Ukraine.
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