Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 23 of the invasion
Food supply fears as Biden plans to warn Chinese president against providing military support for Russia
A World Food Programme (WFP) official said on Friday that food supply chains in Ukraine were collapsing, with a portion of infrastructure destroyed and many grocery stores and warehouses now empty.
The US president, Joe Biden, is set to speak with his Chinese counterpart at 1pm GMT on Friday, where he is expected to tell Xi Jinping he will face costs" if Beijing rescues fellow authoritarian ally Russia from intense western sanctions aimed at punishing Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
A Russian missile attack near Lviv airport has raised fears of Vladimir Putin's war spreading to western Ukraine, as Russia claimed to be tightening the noose" around the south-eastern port city of Mariupol.
The Ukrainian air force says the aircraft repair plant in Lviv was struck by cruise missiles fired from the direction of the Black Sea. It also confirmed that two other Russian missiles were reportedly shot down by Ukrainian anti-aircraft defences before reaching their target.
One person was killed and four others wounded after parts of a Russian missile fell on a residential building in the northern part of the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, on Friday morning, emergencies services said.
Britain's media regulator, Ofcom, has revoked Russian-backed television channel RT's licence to broadcast in the UK with immediate effect.
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