Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy claims equivalent of Russian brigade lost near Avdiivka; Putin warns of weapon smuggling from Ukraine – as it happened
by Mattha Busby (now) and Martin Belam (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#6FX8F)
Ukraine's president tells British PM brigade's worth of troops lost trying to encircle embattled city; Putin demands action on weapons trafficking
The Russian-installed official Vladimir Rogov has claimed Russia destroyed at least four" of the Leopard tanks supplied to Ukraine by the west in the Zaporizhzhia region within the past 24 hours.
Zaporizhzhia is one of the regions Russia partly occupies and has claimed to annex.
I think it's really important that one of the outcomes of this meeting is that we don't lose focus on Ukraine. Because of all the other things that are happening in the world, and not least in the Middle East, it would be very easy to lose focus on the war in Ukraine - and essential that we don't do that.
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