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Satellite photos and on-the-ground images reveal a sharp increase in burials in Russian-held areas of Ukraine, according to a report released today.

At least 1,700 new graves were dug between May 12 and June 29 at the Starokrymske cemetery in Mariupol, the non-government Centre for Information Resilience claimed.

The figure far exceeds estimates of 1,000 freshly dug burials between October 21 and March 28, and 1,141 between March 28 and May 12.

The grave was among six areas analysed by the researchers, two of them previously held by Russian forces and the rest still under Moscow's control in southern Ukraine.

"Makeshift burials and the growing number of graves around Ukraine, particularly in and around occupied areas, is a stark illustration of the civilian death toll following the Russian invasion,” said Benjamin Strick, director of investigations at CIR.

The UN human rights office puts the civilian death toll in Ukraine at more than 5,000 but believes the real toll is likely to be much higher.

Ukraine estimates the total civilian death toll in Mariupol, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting of the war so far, at 22,000 people.

Follow the latest updates below.

03:07 PM

Here's a summary of today's developments

• A British aid worker who was detained by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and accused of being a mercenary has died, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

• A top Russian official has said that Moscow would respond positively should Kyiv be ready to resume peace negotiations, but that Ukraine must accept the "territorial realities" of the situation, the Interfax news agency reported.

• Russia's defence ministry says a "final document" designed to unblock grain exports from Ukrainian ports will be ready "soon", following negotiations with Kyiv in Turkey this week.

• Russia's defence ministry has said the cruise missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia was directed at a building where top officials from Ukraine's armed forces were meeting foreign arms suppliers.

• Lawyers defending U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner have told a Russian court she was prescribed medical cannabis in the United States for a chronic injury, a Reuters journalist at the courtroom reported.

• U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged G20 economies to take urgent action to address a short-term food insecurity crisis exacerbated by Russia's war in Ukraine, and avoid market-distorting export restrictions and stockpiling.

• The European Union has "shot itself in the lungs" with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia, which, unless rolled back, risk destroying the European economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.

02:57 PM

EU executive proposes new gold import ban on Russia

The European Union's executive, the European Commission, formally proposed on Friday new sanctions on Russia, including a new import ban on Russian gold.

EU governments must still sign off on the measures, expected as early as next week.

02:38 PM

Ukraine hurrying to agree grain deal next week

Ukraine is hurrying to clinch a deal with Russia, Turkey and the United Nations next week to export grain via its Black Sea ports, a senior Ukrainian official source said on Friday.

Asked if it was realistic for the deal to be signed next week, the source said: "We really hope so. We're hurrying as fast as we can."

02:21 PM

'I am incredibly happy and grateful'

Ruslana Chekh started making dresses in her hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine, when she was just 15.

"My path to design started when I accidentally took a sewing class at six".

Ruslana said she began making dresses for her friends and got the chance to work with a Polish designer for a month and started making couture dresses.

"I have embroidered about a hundred dresses for brides and celebrities," she said.

One dress she has recently worked on cost £80,000 and involved stitching 12,000 pearls by hand.

It was designed for a Lebanese bride, who married her Palestinian fiance in a nature reserve in Lebanon - another country whose people know all too well the agony of war.

"I am incredibly happy and grateful to Fedro and the entire team for giving me this opportunity to work with them and embroider this wedding dress," said Ms Chekh. "It means so much to me."

02:02 PM

'I cannot believe that this is all in my country'

After a 10 hour standstill at the border, Ruslana Chekh and her family crossed over into Warsaw where she found a British host family on a Facebook group.

She also sent a message to a tailors on Instagram to enquire about work.

After settling in with a family in High Barnet, Ruslana went to the couture house Gaudenzi run by Fedro Gaudenzi for a trial period. Here it became "immediately clear" that she was very talented and was asked to join the team full time.

"I have always dreamed of working with couture dresses and costumes," she told The Telegraph.

"And now my dream comes true everyday here in Fedro’s studio".

For Ruslana, whose parents are still in Ukraine, it is "impossible to believe" the stories coming out of Ukraine are true.

"I cannot believe that this is all in my country and in my homeland," she said.

"I have a terrible feeling of pain and despair. Every day hundreds and thousands of people die. On such days there are no words, no tears, and there is no strength to hold on".

"The worst moment for me was when my dad told me that he was going to war,"  the 21-year-old told The Telegraph.

Ruslana's father Serhii joined the military when the war broke out and her mother Liudmyla manages a grocery store.

"My father has been fighting for our freedom since day one and I am very proud of him. Now every morning I start with calls to my family and get the latest updates. I try to talk to my mother every day and the same with my dad but I can't always call him".

She said she normally looks forward to seeing Kyiv in the spring because of the beautiful weather.

"This year," she said, "I look forward to the end of this incessant horror: pain, fear and suffering".

01:38 PM

From fleeing the war to working as a top seamstress

In a twist of events, Ruslana Chekh went from fleeing the war to working as a top seamstress. Here, Maighna Nanu and Patrick Sawer guide you through her story:

Only a few months ago Ruslana Chekh was running for her life, fleeing her native Ukraine to escape Russian bombs.

Now, just three months on, she is working in a top London atelier using her skills as a seamstress to make wedding dresses for some of its wealthiest clients.

Sometimes she pinches herself at the turn of events that led her to her current life in Britain, where she was taken in by a host family.

When the Russians invaded her parents Liudmyla and Serhii told her to leave Kyiv as soon as possible. She jumped into a car with Diana, her best friend, and her family and they drove for 15 hours straight to Lviv.

Every second was fraught with tension, she says, "there was fear at every step because we never knew what was going to happen".

The scenes were “unbearable”, she says.

Her friends' parents had burnt to death at home; Nearby, a little boy was shot in the head. “People were just getting killed trying to get out of a bomb shelter,” she said.

01:20 PM

British aid worker Paul Urey dies while being held captive by Russian-backed separatists

A British aid worker who was detained by Russian-backed separatists in Ukraine and accused of being a mercenary has died, the Russian state news agency TASS reported.

Paul Urey, 45, was captured in eastern Ukraine and charged with "mercenary activities" by separatists in the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).

"British representatives ignored even the possibility of negotiating his return as part of the prisoner exchange procedure," the DPR Ombudsman said.

"Moreover, they did not provide the necessary medical preparations through the Red Cross. Paul Urey was provided with appropriate medical assistance, but given the diagnoses and stress, he died on July 10."

Mr Urey was detained while providing humanitarian aid in April, according to a charity that was working with him.

He was attempting to evacuate a woman and two children from the Zaporizhzhia region when he was stopped at a checkpoint.

01:00 PM

Number of injured at Mykolaiv universities rises to four

The number of people injured in the strike on two universities in Mykolaiv has risen to four, according to Hanna Zamazeyeva, the head of the regional council.

There were no children among those hurt and the victims are currently receiving treatment at medical facilities.

12:47 PM

Mykolaiv university ‘impossible to restore’ anytime soon

Mykolaiv university is “impossible to restore” before the new academic year following missile strikes, Vitalii Kim, head of the city's regional military administration has said.

According to Mr Kim, four S-300 missiles hit the National University of Mykolaiv and five hit the National University of Shipbuilding

Two floors at the National University were completely destroyed, he added.

Mr Kim said it is "impossible to restore the premises before the beginning of the academic year”.

12:28 PM

Russia eyes 'final document soon' on Ukraine grain exports

Russia's defence ministry says a "final document" designed to unblock grain exports from Ukrainian ports will be ready "soon", following negotiations with Kyiv in Turkey this week.

"Soon the work on creating a final document on the 'Black Sea initiative' will be completed," the defence ministry's spokesman, Igor Konashenkov, said on state television.

12:17 PM

Russia hits two Ukrainian universities in Mykolaiv with 10 missiles

11:55 AM

Inside the Vinnytsia attack

A bloodstained baby buggy has told the tragic tale of Russian missile strike on city 300 miles from front line.

At least 23 civilians, including a toddler pushing a stroller, killed in horrific attack on Vinnytsia that has been labelled a "war crime".

Here, Roland Oliphant, our senior foreign correspondent, tracks the events.

11:28 AM

Kharkiv 'educational establishments' hit

Russian rockets have hit "educational establishments" in the Kharkiv region, according to Governor Oleh Synyehubov.

He said that the targets were civilian, not military and that there was “no military infrastructure, only civilian facilities” nearby.

Mr Synyehubov added that there were no casualties.

Moscow has denied targeting civilians.

11:02 AM

Building struck in Vinnytsia was military target - Russia

Russia's defence ministry has said the cruise missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia was directed at a building where top officials from Ukraine's armed forces were meeting foreign arms suppliers.

Ukraine has denied any military target was hit, saying the attack killed at least 23 people and struck a cultural centre used by retired veterans.

"On July 14, Kalibr (cruise) missiles were launched at the House of Officers in Vinnytsia," Russia's defence ministry said in its daily update.

"The facility was hosting a conference of the Ukrainian Armed Forces command with representatives of foreign arms suppliers ... The attack resulted in the elimination of the participants."

Ukrainian officials said the victims of the attack included three children, the youngest just four years old.

10:36 AM

CCTV captures moment three missiles hit central Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia

10:16 AM

Mykolaiv university destroyed after missiles rain down

09:54 AM

70pc of Germans back Ukraine despite high energy prices

A strong majority of Germans wants to continue supporting Ukraine in fighting against Russia even if it means paying more for energy, according to a survey published on Friday.

Some 70 per cent of those polled backed Germany's support for Ukraine, though the number of people who wanted stronger military support dropped to 35pc from 44pc in early July, found the survey conducted between July 12-14 by broadcaster ZDF.

Twenty-two percent said they did not want Germany to support Ukraine, with the goal of returning to lower energy prices, it added.

Relief measures aimed at helping Germans shoulder higher costs due to the war, including cut-price public transport tickets and cheaper petrol, don't go far enough, said more than two-thirds of those polled. Just 20pc found them satisfactory.

The survey polled 1,167 randomly selected voters by phone.

09:30 AM

EU to target Russian gold in next sanctions package

The European Union will target Russian gold exports in its next sanction package and seek to "close exit routes" for those bypassing its earlier packages, an EU commissioner has said.

The EU has so far approved six sanction packages against Russia. The last one passed in June imposed a ban on most Russian oil imports.

The EU will look into "ways we could slap a sanction regime on gold, which is an important commodity for exports from Russia", Maros Sefcovic, deputy head of the European Commission, said in Prague.

"As soon as we reach an agreement at the level of member states, we will publish it," he said ahead of an informal meeting of EU affairs ministers held by the Czech presidency of the 27-nation bloc.

The move follows a ban on gold exports from Russia agreed by the world's most industrialised nations at a G7 meeting at the end of June.

Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Stefanishyna, who is attending the meeting in Prague, urged the EU to adopt a new sanctions package on Thursday.

"Nothing makes Russia so far feel accountable for (its) crimes," she told reporters.

09:16 AM

Brittney Griner's lawyers say she was prescribed medical cannabis

Lawyers defending U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner have told a Russian court she was prescribed medical cannabis in the United States for a chronic injury, a Reuters journalist at the courtroom reported.

Griner pled guilty to drugs charges which carry a prison sentence of up to ten years after she was detained at a Moscow airport in February carrying vape cartridges with hashish oil.

08:55 AM

G20 must act to address short-term food insecurity crisis - US

U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has urged G20 economies to take urgent action to address a short-term food insecurity crisis exacerbated by Russia's war in Ukraine, and avoid market-distorting export restrictions and stockpiling.

Ms Yellen, speaking at a meeting of G20 finance officials in Indonesia, said countries should target fiscal support measures to help those most in need, rather than adopting costly and regressive blanket subsidies.

Russian President Vladimir Putin was "using food as a weapon of war," she said, citing "the destruction of agricultural facilities, theft of grain and farm equipment, and the effective blockade of Black Sea ports."

Ms Yellen said poor households in the poorest countries were the most directly affected, setting back development and undermining efforts to eradicate poverty.

"We must take action to address the short-term food insecurity crisis and, equally importantly, the longer-term drivers of food insecurity, including the nexus with climate change," she said. "The speed and wisdom of our decisions now will make the difference on whether we get the current crisis under control."

Ms Yellen said G20 countries should leverage the existing food security and agriculture architecture, and insist that the multilateral development banks, the Rome-based food agencies and the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) and others respond more urgently.

"We don’t need new institutions. We need robust coordination, knowledge sharing, research and development, financing, and action," she said, lauding creation of the Global Alliance for Food Security as a helpful move.

08:36 AM

Russia labels investigation website Bellingcat 'undesirable'

Russian prosecutors on Friday branded the investigations website Bellingcat as "undesirable", saying it posed a security "threat" to the country, Russian agencies reported.

The comments come as Russia orchestrates an unprecedented media and opposition crackdown since sending troops to Ukraine in February.

Bellingcat, which has produced reports on Moscow's Ukraine offensive, had already been branded a "foreign agent" in Russia last year.

The General Prosecutor's Office labelled it "undesirable" with another Latvia-based investigations website, The Insider, and a Czech institute, the Central and Eastern Europe Law Initiative (CEELI).

It told Russian agencies that they pose a "threat to the constitutional order and security of the Russian Federation".

Under the "undesirables" law, Russians who maintain ties with such organisations could face heavy fines or even jail terms of up to six years.

Bellingcat and The Insider - which often produce joint investigations - were included in a list of "foreign agents" last year.

Entities identified as foreign agents must disclose sources of funding and label publications with a tag or face fines.

08:06 AM

Europe 'shot itself in the lungs' with sanctions on Russia, Orban says

The European Union has "shot itself in the lungs" with ill-considered economic sanctions on Russia, which, unless rolled back, risk destroying the European economy, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said.

Gas supplies to Europe have tightened and fuel costs have soared since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February and subsequent sanctions, leaving countries scrambling to refill storage and diversify supply channels. Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a "special operation".

The surge in gas and electricity prices forced nationalist Mr Orban to curtail a years-long cap on utility prices for higher-usage households on Wednesday, rolling back one of the 59-year-old prime minister's signature economic policies.

"Initially, I thought we had only shot ourselves in the foot, but now it is clear that the European economy has shot itself in the lungs, and it is gasping for air," Mr Orban, a long-time sanctions critic, told public radio in an interview.

Mr Orban said Ukraine needed help, but European leaders should reconsider their strategy, as sanctions have caused widespread damage to the European economy without weakening Russia or bringing the months-long war closer to any resolution.

"The sanctions do not help Ukraine, however, they are bad for the European economy and if it goes on like this, they will kill off the European economy," he said. "What we see right now is unbearable."

"The moment of truth must come in Brussels, when leaders admit they have made a miscalculation, that the sanctions policy was based on wrong assumptions and it must be changed."

07:41 AM

G20 finance ministers meet in Bali

Top financial officials from the G20 are meeting on the Indonesian island of Bali seeking strategies to counter the economic fallout from the war in Ukraine, inflation and other global crises.

Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati opened the two-day meeting by urging fellow finance ministers, central bank chiefs and other leaders to find ways to "build bridges, not walls." She said the consequences of failure, especially for less wealthy nations, would be "catastrophic."

"Millions and millions if not billions of people are depending on us," Ms Indrawati said.

One key goal of U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and some other Western financial officials is gaining agreement on setting a price cap on Russian oil that might help bring energy costs under control and alleviate the decades-high inflation seen in many countries while also limiting Moscow's access to revenues to fund its war effort.

"A price cap on Russian oil is one of our most powerful tools to address the pain Americans and families across the world are feeling at the gas pump and the grocery store right now, a limit on the price of Russian oil," Ms Yellen said at news briefing Thursday in Bali that was shown online.

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06:59 AM

North Korea outrage over Ukraine relations

North Korea's foreign ministry said on Friday that Ukraine had no right to raise sovereignty issues after joining the United States' "unjust, illegal" actions that breached Pyongyang's sovereignty.

North Korea's state media released a statement from the ministry after formally recognising two Russian-backed breakaway self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine as independent states.

Ukraine severed relations with North Korea after the move, calling it an attempt to undermine its sovereignty and territorial integrity.

But the isolated country's foreign ministry defended the decision, saying Ukraine had already aided US-led actions including sanctions over the North's weapons programmes.

North Korea has said its nuclear and missile programmes are a self-defensive deterrence, and accused the US of maintaining "hostile policy" by imposing international sanctions and holding military drills with South Korea.

06:38 AM

Moscow: Ukraine must accept 'territorial realities'

A top Russian official has said that Moscow would respond positively should Kyiv be ready to resume peace negotiations, but that Ukraine must accept the "territorial realities" of the situation, the Interfax news agency reported.

The United States has called on Russia to release Ukrainians it has forced out of their home country and allow outside observers, citing reports Moscow was putting Ukrainian children up for adoption and "disappearing" thousands of others.

It comes as Ukraine's top war crimes prosecutor and European judicial authorities met on Thursday to coordinate investigations into atrocities during Russia's invasion of Ukraine, warning that a failure to do so would embolden autocrats.

06:30 AM

Putin keeps Russian company details secret

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed into law a bill banning the dissemination of information on Russian companies and individuals who could face international sanctions.

The law explicitly bans from internet or media publication – without written permission – any information about transactions made or planned by Russian individuals or legal entities participating in foreign economic activity.

It also suspends for three years the obligatory publication of key financial and governance information by major Russian state corporations.

06:21 AM

Bolsonaro: I know how to resolve the war

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has said he knows how the war between Russia and Ukraine could be "resolved" and that he will pitch his suggestions to Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, with whom he is set to have a phone meeting next week.

"I'll tell him my opinion, what I think," Bolsonaro said.

"I know how it could be resolved. But I won't tell anyone."

05:40 AM

Yellen condemns Russia's 'brutal' war

US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has condemned Russia's "brutal and unjust war" in Ukraine and said Russian finance officials taking part in a G20 meeting on Friday shared responsibility for the "horrific consequences" of the war.

Ms Yellen, speaking at the opening session of the gathering of Group of 20 finance ministers and central bankers in Bali, Indonesia, welcomed Ukraine's finance minister and blamed the negative spillovers of the war "solely" on Russia, a Treasury official said.

Russian Deputy Finance Minister Timur Maksimov was in Bali for the meetings, while Finance Minister Anton Siluanov was participating virtually.

05:35 AM

G20 urged to reach consensus to avoid catastrophe

Indonesian Finance Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati said on Friday it was vital for G20 finance leaders to reach a consensus during talks in Bali, warning otherwise it could be "catastrophic" for low-income countries facing soaring food and energy prices.

Finance leaders from the Group of 20 major economies are meeting on the resort island, as host Indonesia tries to find common ground in a group frayed by the Ukraine war and rising economic pressures from soaring inflation.

Sri Mulyani said the world had high hopes that the group would be able to find a solution to the triple threat of war, rising commodity prices and their spillover effects on the ability of low-income countries to repay debt.

"We are acutely aware that the cost of our failure to work together is more than we can afford. The humanitarian consequences for the world, and especially for many low income countries would be catastrophic," she said.

05:00 AM

Battlefield boost for Ukraine

US-made precision rockets have given Ukraine forces a major battlefield boost since they were introduced in June, tilting the balance against the Russians and possibly forcing Moscow to pause its offensive, experts said.

Since mid-June, using the Himars missile systems, Ukraine has destroyed more than 20 major Russian ammunition depots and command posts that were previously too far behind the front lines to be reached by traditional artillery.

But experts also caution that the new weapons are no panacea, and that the country needs more weapons and radars systems to use in combination to defeat the Russians.

04:36 AM

Russia ‘using stolen Western weapons’

Russia could have used captured Western weapons to commit and cover-up atrocities in Ukraine, officials fear, as Volodymyr Zelensky called for a Nuremberg-style court to hold Moscow to account.

The Telegraph understands investigators are exploring evidence that suggests the Kremlin’s invasion forces could have used the tactic in an attempt to cover-up suspected war crimes.

Having heavy weaponry fall into Russian hands is also a chief concern among Western governments donating equipment to Kyiv.

READ MORE: Russia ‘using stolen Western weapons to commit and cover up war crimes’

04:33 AM

Zelensky: Use Russian assets to compensate victims of terror

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called for creating a mechanism for confiscating Russian assets around the world and using them to compensate the victims of "Russian terror".

Ukraine's Interior Minister, Denys Monastyrsky, echoed Mr Zelensky, calling the missile attack in Vinnytsia a "war crime" intended to intimidate Ukrainians while the country's forces held out in the east.

He said several dozen people were detained for questioning on suspicion that the Russian forces had received targeting assistance from someone on the ground.

04:13 AM

Little Liza, 4, among those killed

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that among those killed in Vinnytsia was a four-year-old girl called Liza, whose mother was badly wounded.

A video of Liza, twirling in a lavender dress in a field of lavender during happy times, was widely shared on social media.

"Today, our hearts are bleeding, and our eyes are full of tears because our family of many thousands has lost one of our own," the charity Down Syndrome wrote.

"They were just on their way from a speech-therapy class, and they just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Mr Zelensky's wife later posted that she had met this "wonderful girl" while filming a Christmas video with a group of children, who were given oversized ornaments to paint.

"The little mischievous girl then managed in a half an hour to paint not only herself, her holiday dress, but also all the other children, me, the cameramen and the director ... Look at her alive, please," Olena Zelenska wrote in a note accompanying the video.

READ MORE: Bloodstained baby buggy tells tragic tale of Russian missile strike on city 300 miles from front line 

03:33 AM

'They knew where they were hitting'

Officials said Kalibr cruise missiles fired from a Russian submarine in the Black Sea damaged a medical clinic, offices, stores and residential buildings in Vinnytsia, a city 268km (167 miles) southwest of the capital, Kyiv.

Vinnytsia region Governor Serhiy Borzov said Ukrainian air defences downed two of the four incoming Russian missiles.

"It was a building of a medical organisation. When the first rocket hit it, glass fell from my windows," said Vinnytsia resident Svitlana Kubas, 74.

"And when the second wave came, it was so deafening that my head is still buzzing. It tore out the very outermost door, tore it right through the holes."

Mr Borzov said 36 apartment buildings were damaged and residents were evacuated. Along with hitting buildings, the missiles ignited a fire that spread to 50 cars in a parking lot, officials said.

"These are quite high-precision missiles," Mr Borzov said. "They knew where they were hitting."

Among the buildings damaged in the strike was the House of Officers, a Soviet-era concert hall.

Margarita Simonyan, head of the state-controlled Russian television network RT, said military officials told her a building in Vinnytsia was targeted because it housed Ukrainian Nazis.

03:22 AM

Zelensky accuses Russia of deliberately targeting civilians

Ukraine's president has accused Russia of deliberately targeting civilians in locations without military value.

Volodymyr Zelensky's outrage came after Russian missiles struck a city in central Ukraine on Thursday, killing at least 23 people and wounding more than 100 others far from the front lines.

National Police Chief Ihor Klymenko said only six bodies had been identified so far, while 39 people were still missing.

Three children younger than 10 where among the dead.

Of the 66 people hospitalised, five remained in a critical condition while 34 sustained severe injuries, Ukraine's State Emergency Service said.

Russia denied targeting civilians.

"Russia only strikes at military targets in Ukraine. The strike on Vinnytsia targeted an officers' residence, where preparations by Ukrainian armed forces were underway," Evgeny Varganov, a member of Russia's permanent UN mission, said in an address to the chamber.

03:05 AM

Today's top stories

• Russia could have used captured Western weapons to commit and cover-up atrocities in Ukraine, officials fear, as Volodymyr Zelensky called for a Nuremberg-style court to hold Moscow to account

• Russian missiles struck the centre of a western Ukrainian city on Thursday, killing three children including a toddler pushing a pram

• The Kremlin has ordered a “volunteer mobilisation” of up to 34,000 soldiers by the end of next month to patch up its battered forces in Ukraine, analysts have said

• French President Emmanuel Macron has accused Russia of using energy as a “weapon of war” as the chief executive of oil and gas giant Shell warned gas rationing in Europe this winter was possible