Moscow and Kyiv gave differing accounts of negotiations to extend the Black Sea grain deal, with Russia saying it has been extended 60 days, while Ukraine said the agreement required any extension to last 120 days
Ukraine’s future hinges on the outcome of battles in the east, including in and around Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, with both sides describing brutal fighting as Russia intensifies a winter campaign to capture the small city.
The arrangement, brokered by the United Nations and Turkey, is due to expire this week. Russia said it had been extended for 60 days, but Ukraine said the agreement required any extension to last 120 days. Turkey said talks were still ongoing. In a forest some 8 km from the front, cannons boomed and explosions rumbled constantly in the distance.
On the other side of the front in Volnovakha, a Russian-controlled village to the south, the body of a woman lay on a street next to a ruined shop. A Russian military investigator told Reuters the area had been struck by Ukrainian shelling. Britain’s Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday that Moscow was running short of ammunition, “to the extent that extremely punitive shell-rationing is in force on many parts of the front.”
The ICC, which opened an investigation into war crimes in Ukraine last year, is expected to seek its first warrants against Russian officials “in the short term,” a source with knowledge of the matter said.
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