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- French President Emmanuel Macron urged his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping to reason with Russia and help bring an end to the war in Ukraine, as the pair held high-level meetings in Beijing.
- The head of Russia’s Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said Ukrainian forces were not leaving the city of Bakhmut, and fighting was continuing in the western part of the city.
- Ukraine and Poland agree on the joint production of 125mm-calibre tank shells, Ukraine’s state arms producer announced, a day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Poland.
- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov starts a two-day visit to Ankara to meet his Turkish counterpart.