Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now
Moscow said 1,730 Ukrainian fighters surrendered to Mariupol in three days, including 771 in the past 24 hours, demanding surrender on a much larger scale than kyiv has acknowledged since ordering its garrison to withdraw.
STRUGGLE
* Ukraine's Territorial Defense Force said its fighters blew up an armored train carrying Russian troops. Still, an adviser to President Volodymyr Zelinskiy later said the attack was limited to the tracks near the train.
* More than half of the Ukrainian fighters in the bunkers under the Azovstal steelworks have surrendered, the leader of the rebel Russia-backed Donetsk region says, and the International Committee of the Red Cross says that he recorded them.
* The head of the World Health Organization has urged Russia to ensure safe access to places in Ukraine that its troops control or besiege to enable health care delivery.
* A Ukrainian prosecutor on Thursday asked a court to sentence a Russian soldier to life in prison for killing an unarmed civilian in the first war crimes trial stemming from the February 24 Russian invasion.
* The White House is working on getting advanced anti-ship missiles into the hands of Ukrainian fighters to help defeat the Russian naval blockade, officials said, as more powerful weapons that could sink Russian warships step up the dispute.
DIPLOMACY
* Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said he and finance ministers from the wealthy Group of Seven countries had discussed "practical steps" to help Ukraine recover from the war with Russia.
* Group of Seven financial leaders is expected to agree on Thursday and Friday about $15 billion to help Ukraine pay its bills in the coming months.
* US President Joe Biden met with Swedish and Finnish leaders on Thursday to advance their demands to join the NATO military alliance in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as Turkey repeated its opposition to this decision.
* Russian Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov and US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Mark Milley held a phone call, RIA news agency reported on Thursday, citing the Russian ministry of the defense.
* The European Parliament has called for former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to be blacklisted if he does not leave the board of Russian state oil company Rosneft in a bid also to dissuade him from taking a job as management at Gazprom (MCX:GAZP).
ECONOMY
* Ukraine has exported 643,000 tons of grain since the beginning of May, considerably less than the same period last year when it sold 1.8 million tons abroad, the report said. The Minister of Agriculture.
* UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he was in 'intense contact' with Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, the United States, and the European Union in a bid to restore exports of Ukrainian cereals as the global food crisis worsens.
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