Ukraine live briefing: Russia launches night raid on Kyiv with drones
In an address Sunday honoring border guards, Russian President Vladimir Putin urged security officials stationed near combat zones and in occupied areas of Ukraine to “ensure fast movement of both military and civil vehicles and cargoes … on their way to new constituent entities of the Russian Federation” — referring to Ukrainian regions that the Kremlin illegally claimed to annex last year.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Driving a tractor or plow through lands potentially strewn with mines may be too dangerous. So farmers in some of the most fertile parts of the country are sweeping their fields on foot, determining which shells have exploded and which are still deadly.