- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian forces have retaken Irpin, a key town outside the capital, Kyiv.
- Negotiators from Kyiv and Moscow will meet for face-to-face talks in Turkey’s Istanbul.
- Ukrainian foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba says Kyiv’s goal at the talks is a ceasefire agreement.
- US President Joe Biden says he was expressing outrage, not a policy shift, when he said Russia’s Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power“.
- Russia’s Novaya Gazeta newspaper suspends activities amid Moscow’s intensifying crackdown on critical reporting of the war.
Here are all the latest updates:
Ukraine resumes evacuations after Russian ‘provocations’
Ukraine says it is reopening humanitarian corridors and evacuating civilians from war-scarred regions after a one-day pause over what Kyiv called possible Russian “provocations”.
“Three humanitarian corridors were agreed for today,” Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk said in a video statement posted on Telegram, a day after announcing their closure, citing intelligence…
