LIVE. Nuclear watchdog IAEA prepares mission to Chernobyl – European Parliament president en route to Kiev

Russia today opens a humanitarian corridor from the besieged port city of Mariupol to Zaporizhzhya more northwesterly. According to Michael Mizintsev, the chief executive of the National Defense Management Center, Moscow is doing so at the request of French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Follow all developments around the conflict in Ukraine in this live blog.

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