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Russia-Ukraine war: Russian authorities in Crimea ordering hospitals to refuse civilian patients, says Ukraine – live
In peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2014, injured Russian soldiers reportedly given priority over wounded civilians
What we know on day 95 of the invasionFighting focuses on Donbas, but Putin has not given up on Kharkiv – or KyivRussia is continuing to ship gas to Europe through Ukraine, Gazprom has confirmed.
The Russian gas producer said its supply via the Sudzha entry point stood at 44.1 million cubic metres, up from 43.95 on Saturday.
In a series of dispatches for the Observer at the start of the war, the two female Ukrainian journalists bravely documented the horrors of life in occupied Kherson – from the city’s brave resistance to looming humanitarian disaster and burying the dead. But they also offered an insight into how, despite it all, residents fiercely continued to find glimmers of joy: a tale of young hospital interns getting married; drinking coffee at their favourite coffee shop under the roar of artillery strikes. There were scenes of dark humour too. In one dispatch, they described how a queue of civilians laughed a group of empty-handed Russian soldiers out of the butcher’s shop because they were unimpressed with the quality of meat available.
Despite growing numbers of people leaving, the escalating danger – particularly for journalists – and dwindling supplies, the old friends, who are both in their 50s, hadn’t planned to leave their home city.
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