- Chinese President Xi Jinping tells Joe Biden that “all sides” must support Russia-Ukraine “dialogue”.
- Biden did not offer incentives to Xi in video call between two leaders, White House says.
- First United Nations aid convoy arrives in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sumy.
- Ukraine says more than 9,100 people were evacuated from Ukrainian cities through humanitarian corridors on Friday.
- More than half of those evacuated – 4,972 people – left the besieged city of Mariupol.
- Russia slams Council of Europe as a “Russophobic” tool of the West.
- UN says 6.5 million people have been internally displaced due to the war.
Here are the latest updates:
Russia: Hypersonic missiles used in Ukraine
Russia has used its newest Kinzhal hypersonic missiles for the first time in Ukraine on Friday to destroy a weapons storage site in the country’s west, the defence ministry said.
Moscow has never before admitted using the high-precision weapon in combat, and state news agency RIA Novosti said it was the first use of the Kinzhal hypersonic weapons during the conflict in Ukraine.
“The Kinzhal aviation missile system with hypersonic aeroballistic missiles destroyed a large underground warehouse containing missiles and aviation ammunition in the village of Deliatyn in the Ivano-Frankivsk region”, the Russian defence ministry said.
Ukraine prosecutor: 112 children killed in Ukraine war
The Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office…
