Russia on the back foot with dynamics of war shifting in Ukraine’s favour, EU says – Europe live

EU chief diplomat says: Russia is on the back foot, militarily, economically, but also diplomatically'

Meanwhile, Hungary's Magyar hits a bit more upbeat tone in his latest post on Facebook, saying that while there are still some issues that need to be resolved, the two sides managed to agree a deal on many important questions."

In a Facebook video, he takes viewers into a meeting room in Brussels from which he is working on ironing out the final details.

I will obviously not anticipate or prejudge what will be the outcome of that meeting, but a series of meetings has been taking place, as you know, between the teams on both sides to make as much progress as possible. ...

Let's see what comes out of it. It's not much more time to wait. We give it another day, and we should know more in terms of how far have we managed to get on both sides."