Reuters:
Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
July 5 - Russian forces struck targets across Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region to prepare the path for an expected armoured thrust to try to take more territory as the five-month-old war entered a new phase. read more
FIGHTING
* The cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk came under shelling overnight in the eastern Donetsk region, its governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian TV. A woman was killed and at least three people were wounded after a market was struck in Sloviansk, local police said. read more
* The cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk came under shelling overnight in the eastern Donetsk region, its governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian TV. A woman was killed and at least three people were wounded after a market was struck in Sloviansk, local police said. read more
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* Russian rocket strikes hit the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, Nayor Oleksandr Senkevych said.
* Russian-backed separatists have seized two foreign-flagged ships in the eastern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, saying they are now "state property", in the first such moves against commercial shipping, letters seen by Reuters showed.
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* Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield accounts.
* Russia does not send conscripts to Ukraine to fight in its "special military operation", Russian state news agency TASS quoted Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
* Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield accounts.
* Russia does not send conscripts to Ukraine to fight in its "special military operation", Russian state news agency TASS quoted Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
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* President Vladimir Putin congratulated on Monday Russian forces on their "victories in the Luhansk direction" and "liberating" the region.
* President Vladimir Putin congratulated on Monday Russian forces on their "victories in the Luhansk direction" and "liberating" the region.
DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMY
* British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told Zelenskiy during a phone call he believed Kyiv's military could retake territory recently captured by Russian forces, Johnson's office said.
* Zelenskiy renewed his appeal for security guarantees while addressing a roundtable conference hosted by the Economist. Europe needs to understand, he said, that the war in Ukraine is about Europe's safety and Ukraine is the "fence" protecting it.
* An international conference in Lugano, Switzerland to support Ukraine has outlined a series of principles to steer Kyiv's recovery and condemned Moscow's actions.
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* Western partners should do more to help unblock Ukraine's Black Sea ports to release exports of grain, metals and mining products, a Ukrainian official told Reuters in Lugano, warning the country's finances are increasingly precarious.
* No decision has been made yet on expanding Russia's rouble-for-gas scheme to include liquefied natural gas (LNG), the Kremlin said.
* Western partners should do more to help unblock Ukraine's Black Sea ports to release exports of grain, metals and mining products, a Ukrainian official told Reuters in Lugano, warning the country's finances are increasingly precarious.
* No decision has been made yet on expanding Russia's rouble-for-gas scheme to include liquefied natural gas (LNG), the Kremlin said.
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* Britain said it would on Tuesday introduce new sanctions on Belarus over its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and also sanctioned six Russians it said were spreading disinformation.
* Britain said it would on Tuesday introduce new sanctions on Belarus over its support for Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and also sanctioned six Russians it said were spreading disinformation.
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* Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev said a reported proposal from Japan to cap the price of Russian oil at around half its current price would lead to a market shortage that could push prices above $300-400 a barrel.
* Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev said a reported proposal from Japan to cap the price of Russian oil at around half its current price would lead to a market shortage that could push prices above $300-400 a barrel.
QUOTES
* "The city doesn't exist anymore," said Nina, a young mother who fled Lysychansk in now Russian-controlled Luhansk province to take refuge in the central city of Dnipro. "It has practically been wiped off the face of the Earth."
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