Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Elisabeth Braw says: 'Russia's progress is slow but they seem to have turned the tide and they are now making incremental gains in eastern Ukraine'. Latest: 📺 Sky 501, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Updates from Sky News correspondents Alex Crawford in Donbas and Dominic Waghorn in Odesa. Fighting for the eastern Ukrainian city of Severodonetsk continues with Russian forces conducting assault operations, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces has said.
"The shells hit a residential area, twenty meters from the kindergarten - these are the enemies chosen by the Russian Federation. "It doesn't matter what their foreign minister says. It doesn't matter that he sends some negotiating group to us ... all these people are nobodies, unfortunately," he told Dutch television on Friday. Images have emerged of the damage to a solar power plant in the town of Merefa, on the outskirts of Kharkiv, after Russian shelling.
In a statement on Twitter, Mr Kuleba said:"Sanctions on Russia have no connection to the unfolding global food crisis. During the phone conversation, French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz urged the Russian leader to release the 2,500 Ukrainian defenders of the Azovstal steel plant currently detained by Kremlin forces, the Elysee palace said.
Petro Poroshenko was stopped twice at a border crossing with Poland while en route to a meeting of NATO's parliamentary assembly, where he was due to meet the President of Lithuania Gitanas Nauseda, the European Solidarity said. The former president is being investigated in connection with the financing of Russian-backed separatists in the east of the country through illegal coal sales in 2014-15.The Moscow branch of Ukraine's Orthodox Church has formally cut ties with the Russian church over the Kremlin's invasion of Ukraine.
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