Russia Ukraine war highlights

#Stopping Russia is ‘imperative’ for world

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says winning the war against Russia is “imperative” for world stability while calling for more arms.

#The mayor of the bombed port city of Mariupol says that a cholera epidemic is likely to kill thousands of people and calls for the evacuation of the remaining residents.

#Estonia has convened the Russian ambassador to condemn the “totally unacceptable” praise of President Vladimir Putin for Peter the Great.

#According to a Ukrainian governor, the country made its eleventh prisoner exchange with Russia.

#In the midst of fierce fighting in eastern Ukraine, 300 Ukrainians left the city of Pokrovsk on a special evacuation train for Dnipro and other cities to the west.