- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced major new military aid worth more than $2bn for Ukraine and other European countries “most potentially at risk for future Russian aggression”. The money is on top of a $675m package of heavy weaponry, ammunition and armoured vehicles for Ukraine announced by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin on Thursday.
- Russia ally Belarus has launched military exercises near its border with Poland. The drills will focus on “liberating territory temporarily seized by the enemy” and regaining control over border regions, the defence ministry said.
- US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has announced major new military aid worth more than $2bn for Ukraine and other European countries “most potentially at risk for future Russian aggression”. The money is on top of a $675m package of heavy weaponry, ammunition and armoured vehicles for Ukraine announced by Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin on Thursday.
- Russia ally Belarus has launched military exercises near its border with Poland. The drills will focus on “liberating territory temporarily seized by the enemy” and regaining control over border regions, the defence ministry said.
- The US has accused Russian forces of forcibly deporting Ukrainians to Russia, in Washington’s latest allegation of war crimes in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported success in a counteroffensive in the Kharkiv region. The claim has been backed up by war monitors, with the Washington, DC-based Institute for the Study of War saying Ukrainian troops have progressed 20km (12 miles) into Russian-held territory.
- Ukraine has recaptured more than 700sq km (270sq miles) of its territory in the east and south during a lightning counteroffensive, a Ukrainian general said.
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