A Russian missile attack has hit Kyiv and Kharkiv.
Ukrainian officials said at least six people were killed and dozens wounded in the Tuesday morning attack.
Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the US and Ukraine’s other supporters at the UN security council after Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the west, and China warned that further global chaos could affect the slowing world economy.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, told the security council that peace plans presented by Ukraine and the west were “a road to nowhere”.
The US deputy ambassador, Robert Wood, countered that it was Vladimir Putin’s “single-minded pursuit of the obliteration of Ukraine and subjugation of its people that is prolonging” the war that began with Moscow’s 2022 invasion.
The Turkish parliament’s general assembly will debate Sweden’s Nato membership bid on Tuesday, three sources from parliament said.
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, has been blocking Sweden’s membership to extract concessions from Sweden and other Nato members.
The parliament’s foreign affairs commission has approved the bid, raising hopes that it will be approved by the full parliament and signed into law by Erdoğan.
A Mexican border security deal in the US Senate is being finalised in a compromise aimed at unlocking Republican support to replenish US wartime aid for Ukraine.
But far-right House Republicans under the sway of Donald Trump have indicated that they want to block any bipartisan deal in order to hamper Joe Biden’s prospects for re-election as president – even if it leaves chaos at the US-Mexico border. “Let me tell you, I’m not willing to do too damn much right now to help a Democrat and to help Joe Biden’s approval rating,” Troy Nehls, a Texas Republican, told CNN.
Moderate Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw has criticised Maga Republicans not willing to work with Biden on border security.
