Russia-Ukraine war live: Zelenskiy signs new mobilisation law in effort to boost Ukraine’s exhausted forces
by Yohannes Lowe (now) and Jamie Grierson (earlier) from on (#6M3R6)
Kyiv brings in higher payments for volunteers and new punishments for draft dodgers
We have more in from Agence France-Presse (AFP) on the German chancellor Olaf Scholz's visit to Beijing to meet China's president, Xi Jinping (see earlier post at 08.46 for more details).
Xi laid out what state media described as four principles to prevent the Ukraine crisis from spiralling out of control and to restore peace".
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