Key Points
- Ukrainian commander has warned that Kyiv has a list of 500 targets in Belarus ready if Lukashenko joins the war with Vladimir Putin
- Russia warns US embassy and foreign citizens to flee Kyiv as it threatens more 'systematic strikes' in response to Ukrainian attacks
- EU says Putin wants to sow 'fear and panic' as it rejects calls to leave Kyiv
- Zelensky says Ukraine achieved greater results on battlefield this year, a feat confirmed by criticism and complaints from Russia’s military bloggers
- Ukraine reburies repatriated remains of Second World War leader Andrii Melnyk who worked with Nazi Germany to fight against Soviet rule
- Putin signs a decree providing debt relief to new war recruits and their families in bid to enroll more fighters in Ukraine war
- British man, 23, killed in action in Ukraine after joining specialist unit supporting army
- Ukraine says it used UK-provided Storm Shadow missiles used to hit Russian military infrastructure in occupied Luhansk region