The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Wednesday, February 15:
The live blog is now closed, thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Wednesday, February 15:
- NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg calls on the alliance’s members to increase their military spending.
- Ukraine says it has repelled Russian attacks in Luhansk after Moscow claimed its troops had broken through two fortified lines of Ukrainian defences in the eastern region.
- The United Nations says $5.6bn is needed to provide humanitarian aid to millions of people in Ukraine and other countries who have taken in those fleeing the war.
- Russian journalist Maria Ponоmarenko is sentenced to six years in prison for accusing the country’s air force of bombing a theatre in Mariupol, Ukraine last year.
