Over 300 Russian troops in the last 24 hours, Ukraine claims, as army reports that Russia planning to replace soldiers with locals in Melitopol
Before I hand you over to my colleague, Harry Taylor, here are some of the latest snaps to come out of Ukraine today.
The number of oil tankers waiting in the Black Sea to cross Istanbul’s Bosphorus strait on the way to the Mediterranean rose by five to 16 on Thursday, a shipping agency said, according to a Reuters report.