South African President Cyril Ramaphosa says Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy have agreed to welcome a group of African leaders to discuss a potential peace plan, reports Al Jazeera.
Ukraine says its troops have retaken about 20 square kilometres around Bakhmut but cautioned that Russian forces are continuing to advance inside the city.
Russian shelling in a Kharkiv village has killed at least two people, according to the top Ukrainian official in the region.
After the CIA published a video encouraging Russians to make contact via a secure internet channel, the Kremlin says its agencies are tracking Western spy activity.
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