Russian forces around the key city of Severodonetsk 'have not made advances into the south of the city', the UK's Ministry of Defence has said. Military expert Justin Crump talks to skynewsSam about the latest in Ukraine. 📺 Sky 501 and YouTube
Updates from Sky News correspondents Alistair Bunkall in Dnipro and Stuart Ramsay in eastern Ukraine. Live reporting from Bhvishya PatelBy Alistair Bunkall, Sky correspondent on the southern Ukraine frontline
"It can be quiet, but then the next minute you're under shelling," Andrii, the field commander tells me. "They don't spare their ammunition. Their drones fly, even if they see there is only one or two people, they will send a barrage of rockets." Progress here is pretty static. The frontline has barely moved in weeks and both sides seem well dug in. It's reflective of a frontline that is entering stalemate in places.
The news agency quoted Oleg Tyapkin, the head of a foreign ministry department in charge of Russian relations with Europe, as saying: "A response, as always, will be proportionate and appropriate, intended to neutralise potential threats to the security of the Russian Federation." Defence Secretary Ben Wallace announced the deployment of the Sky Sabre missile system while on a trip to Warsaw to meet his Polish counterpart.
The French gendarmerie's experts have been helping their counterparts in Ukraine in collecting evidence at sites of destruction from Russian shelling. :"We're not happy about our home, well we don't have a home anymore. But at least we are safe and sound." Before the war, Mariupol had a population of about 400,000, but this fell dramatically to less than a quarter of the original population following the onset of the war.In Kyiv, Oksana finds a bittersweet escape from the war.
Ukraine has pleaded to Western countries for the faster delivery of weapons as Russian forces continue in their offensive along the eastern flank of the country. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, NATO countries have committed more than $8bn in military equipment for Ukraine, with $4.6bn coming from the US.Russia 'planned to issue Kyiv residents with USSR passports' - Ukraine security service
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