Elon Musk says he refused to give Kyiv access to his Starlink communications network over Crimea to avoid complicity in a "major act of war".

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights says more than 26,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in war

Russian strike kills 17 in east Ukraine market

• A missile strike killed at least 16 people after hitting shops in the city of Kostyantynivka, Ukraine’s president said.
• Antony Blinken, the U.S. secretary of state, arrived in Kyiv hours earlier and was expected to announce more than $1 billion in new aid to Ukraine.

Since its invasion of Ukraine, Russia has been attacking Ukraine’s economy by taking aim at its crucial ports on the Black Sea. WSJ’s Shelby Holliday explains how Moscow’s strategy has worked, and what the West is doing to try and counter its blockade.

U.S. Secretary of State expected to announce more than $1 billion in new aid

A rare video aired on Ukrainian television on Sunday allegedly showing a Russian pilot who had defected and encouraging other Russian soldiers to do the same. His dramatic escape allegedly took six months to plan, and was carried out in cooperation with Ukraine’s intelligence services. Whether the video is authentic remains unclear, but one thing is certain: Ukraine is doing everything it can to fuel Russian defections. 

A renewed relationship between two global military powers has raised alarm, with Vladimir Putin proving he will “go to any length” to achieve victory.

North Korea's Kim Jong Un plans to travel to Russia this month to meet President Vladimir Putin, a US official has told the BBC's US partner CBS.

The Russian president said the West needs to facilitate Moscow’s own agricultural exports before he will join a pact that guaranteed security for Kyiv’s Black Sea exports.

Moscow will return to the Black Sea initiative only after the West lifts restrictions on Russian agricultural exports, the president has said

The fate of the defense minister, Oleksii Reznikov, had been the subject of increasing speculation in Ukraine. It was the biggest shake-up in Ukraine’s government since Russia’s full-scale invasion.

A government investigation about a Russian ship contradicts U.S. accusations that South Africa provided arms to fight Ukraine, President Cyril Ramaphosa said. But a government report won’t be released, he added.

• Russia's diplomats were once a key part of President Putin's foreign policy strategy. But that has all changed. 
• In the years leading up to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, diplomats lost their authority, their role reduced to echoing the Kremlin's aggressive rhetoric. 
• BBC Russian asks former Western diplomats, as well as ex-Kremlin and White House insiders, how Russian diplomacy broke down.

Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin alluded to threats to his safety in a video which appears to have been filmed days before he died in a plane crash.

Membership will only be possible when the country's borders are “stable,” a Czech official has said

In Ukraine's north-east, Russia has recently deployed an estimated 100,000 troops in renewed attacks. But Quentin Sommerville, who spent the past month with Ukrainian brigades in the area, discovers it is the increasingly sophisticated drone attacks that are particularly feared.

Hundreds of people in Kyiv have paid their respects to one of Ukraine's most celebrated fighter pilots, who was killed in a mid-air crash last week.

The chilling footage of Yevgeny Prigozhin has been uncovered showing the rebel warlord taking a swipe at Russia’s leadership and with an ominous prophecy.

Western efforts to arm Kiev and break the Russian economy are getting nowhere, Giuseppe Conte has said