Sending British fighter jets to Ukraine not right approach ‘for now’, says UK defence secretary –as it happened
by Léonie Chao-Fong, Martin Belam and Helen Sullivan from on (#68DBA)
Ben Wallace says UK has not made a solid decision' not to send fighter jets but Downing Street appeared to rule it out as not practical'. This live blog is closed
Russian state-owned news agency Tass is reporting that Col Vitaly Kiselev, who it terms a military expert from the Luhansk People's Republic (LPR), has said that pro-Russian forces have surrounded the fiercely contested city of Bakhmut on three sides.
It quotes him saying Bakhmut has practically been embraced' from three sides, an intensive knocking out of the enemy is underway."
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