David Cameron meets Donald Trump amid push to shore up Ukraine support (www.theguardian.com)
British foreign secretary will also urge congressional leaders in Washington to advance aid for Kyiv in its war against Russia
Russia and Ukraine trade blame over Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant drone strike (www.theguardian.com)
Watchdog condemns ‘reckless’ attack after inspectors find damage at Russian-controlled power station
UN nuclear watchdog head condemns drone strike on Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant (www.theguardian.com)
Rafael Grossi says three direct hits against the main reactor containment structures ‘significantly increase the risk of a major nuclear accident’
Russia accused of using chemical gas attacks against Ukrainian soldiers (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine soldiers describe ‘almost daily’ illegal gas attacks as invaders seek to dislodge them from embedded positions
Russia declares federal emergency over floods after dam bursts (www.theguardian.com)
More than 4,000 people have been evacuated in the Orenburg region after the Ural River overflowed
Ukraine’s air defence missiles are running out, Zelenskiy warns (www.theguardian.com)
After weeks of intense Russian strikes, Ukraine’s president calls for artillery shells as well as more Patriot missile systems
Ukraine military draft age lowered to boost fighting force (www.theguardian.com)
Volodymyr Zelenskiy signs bills lowering age for combat duty from 27 to 25 and requiring those given disability waivers to undergo a fresh assessment
‘No choice’: Ukraine eyes Kerch bridge in Crimea for drone attack (www.theguardian.com)
Third attack on Kerch bridge between Russia and occupied Crimea ‘inevitable’, say Ukraine’s military intelligence
Send missiles to Ukraine or stand accused of appeasing Russia? Olaf Scholz must choose | Paul Taylor (www.theguardian.com)
The SPD chancellor has drawn a line in the sand. But playing the peace card to win back anti-war voters could cast his party into the political wilderness
Russia demands extradition of Ukraine security chief and others for ‘terrorism’ (www.theguardian.com)
SBU dismisses demand as pointless and hypocritical, ‘coming from the terrorist state itself’
Europe must get ready for looming war, Donald Tusk warns (www.theguardian.com)
Polish prime minister urges countries to step up defence spending after Russian missile bound for Ukraine breaches airspace
‘He took five bullets and returned to work on plankton’: the double lives of Ukraine’s Antarctic scientists (www.theguardian.com)
When the team at Vernadsky base are not back defending their homeland, they are on the frontline of the climate crisis
Ukraine war briefing: Russian fighter jet crashes off Crimea (www.theguardian.com)
US pushes exporters to cut off clients who might sell weapons parts on to Russia; Zelenskiy insists Putin a threat to Nato countries. What we know on day 765
Amid air raids and electricity shortages, a Ukrainian artist paints the Russian invasion (www.theguardian.com)
For Sana Shahmuradova Tanska, art-making became a compulsive way to process the anxiety of living in a war zone
Ukraine: Enemy in the Woods review – a harrowing vision of hell you will never forget (www.theguardian.com)
In this distressingly intimate film, Ukrainian soldiers as young as 19 carry their dying comrades through a freezing forest as the sky turns red with gunfire. Their horror and humanity will never leave you
‘I’ve never seen war shown like this’: film-maker captures Ukraine conflict from soldiers’ view (www.theguardian.com)
Jamie Roberts says his BBC Two documentary, Ukraine, Enemy in the Woods, aims show a true picture of the frontline
Russia’s weaponising of sexual violence, and Ukraine’s response, reveals a grim war of values | Kateryna Busol (www.theguardian.com)
Ukraine’s fight for justice for survivors of terrible sexual crimes shows the battle goes far beyond territory, says Dr Kateryna Busol, a Ukrainian lawyer
Ukraine pleads for air defence aid after Russia launches more missile strikes on Kyiv (www.theguardian.com)
At least five people injured and a three-storey building damaged in latest wave of strikes
Putin will be ruthless after the Moscow attack, but Russians don’t trust him to keep them safe | Andrei Soldatov (www.theguardian.com)
His brutal, repressive regime is good at belated investigation and torture, but lacks the capability to stop attacks happening, says Russian author Andrei Soldatov
Poland activates air force as western Ukraine and Kyiv come under ‘massive’ Russian attack (www.theguardian.com)
Poland says Russian missile targeting Ukraine’s Lviv region violated its airspace while Kyiv suffers third pre-dawn attack in four days
New Islamic State videos back claim it carried out Moscow concert hall attack (www.theguardian.com)
Footage of gunmen reinforces terror group’s claim to have masterminded worst terror attack on Russia in two decades
There’s little reason to doubt attack on Moscow venue was by Islamic State (www.theguardian.com)
The ISKP regional affiliate has a haven in Afghanistan and carried out recent bombings in Iran, suggesting it has capacity for major atrocities
Moscow concert hall shooting: at least 40 killed and 100 wounded in attack; roof collapsing as fire rips through venue – latest updates (www.theguardian.com)
More than 100 people injured in attack on Crocus City Hall, says FSB, as Russian officials investigate incident as terrorist attack
Shooting and blast reported at concert hall near Moscow (www.theguardian.com)
RIA agency says at least three people in camouflage gear opened fire, while Tass reports a blast and a fire