The cities of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk came under shelling overnight in the eastern Donetsk region, its governor Pavlo Kyrylenko told Ukrainian TV. At least two people were killed and seven more were wounded after a market was struck in Sloviansk, local police 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.
An official from Russia's powerful FSB security services has taken over the government of the Moscow-occupied Kherson region in southern Ukraine, Kremlin-installed authorities said.
Arbitrary detention of civilians has become "widespread" in parts of Ukraine held by Russia's military and affiliated armed groups, the UN human rights chief said.
Sweden has left the door open to alleged terror suspects being extradited to Turkey in order to secure its support for a bid to join Nato.
Religion is "collateral damage" in Russia's invasion of Ukraine as she also called out the persecution of religious minorities in China and Afghanistan, UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said.
Russia claimed that some of the weapons the West is sending to Ukraine are spreading across the Middle East and ending up on the black market.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said that conscripts are not being sent to Ukraine to fight in Russia's "special military operation", the Russian state news agency TASS reported.
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