This live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Tuesday, March 7.
This live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. These were the updates on the Russia-Ukraine war on Tuesday, March 7.
- The Ukrainian military has named the soldier allegedly shot by Russian forces on video as Tymofiy Mykolayovych Shadura, a prisoner of war who went missing in early February.
- Kyiv has opened a criminal investigation into what it said was Russia’s “brutal and brazen shooting of an unarmed person” after a video of the apparent shooting spread on social media.
- Ukraine’s top generals have pledged to keep defending Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his nightly address, as Russian forces close in on the city.
- China’s foreign minister Qin Gang says the Ukraine crisis is being driven by an “invisible hand” and that Beijing must advance its relations with Russia as the world becomes more turbulent.
- New United States intelligence suggests that a pro-Ukrainian group carried out the attack on the Nord Stream gas pipelines last year, The New York Times reports.