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· Russian forces have taken most of Sievierodonetsk, where fierce street fighting continues.
Russia's Defense Ministry says the missiles destroyed a large warehouse containing American and European weapons in Ternopil, Ukraine. The claim was rejected by Ukrainian officials who said no weapons were stored there.
Amnesty International has indicted Russia for war crimes in Ukraine's second largest city, Kharkiv. Hundreds of civilians have been killed by bombings using widely banned ammunition and undirected missiles, the agency said in a new report published Monday.
· The security concerns raised by Turkey in its opposition to Finland and Sweden's membership applications to NATO are legitimate, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. "These are legitimate concerns. "This is about terrorism, this is about arms exports," Stoltenberg told a news conference in Finland on Sunday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Sunday the possibility of new talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Maybe next week we will talk about the steps we will take, holding talks with Putin and Zelensky," he said of solutions to the war-hampered exports.
· The global nuclear arsenal is expected to increase in the coming years for the first time since the Cold War and the risk of using such weapons is the greatest in decades. Russia's invasion of Ukraine and Western support for Kiev has raised tensions between the world's nine nuclear-armed nations, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
· Ukraine has created two routes through Poland and Romania to export grain and avert a global food crisis, although obstacles have slowed the supply chain, Kiev's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday.
Source: Guardian
