- Governor of Donetsk urges some 350,000 citizens to evacuate the region to help Ukrainian forces better fight Russian forces.
- Russia’s capture of the Luhansk region was relatively quick and showed better coordination than in its earlier offensives, the United Kingdom’s defence ministry has said.
- Sloviansk mayor claims Russia is pounding the town with “massive shelling”.
- Russian legislators have given the first stamp of approval to two bills enabling war economy measures.
[Al Jazeera]
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