Russia-Ukraine war live: 10m people have left Ukraine since Russian invasion, UN says; first grain exports arrive in Turkey | World news

The US embassy in Kyiv has criticised what it says is a decision by Roskomnadzor, the Russian government’s media agency, to block a US government website – share.america.gov.

It quotes Ned Price, US state department spokesperson, accusing Roskomnadzor of being an agency that “monitors, controls and censors” the media, and describing the website as one which “spreads stories about American ingenuity and values and reports the truth about the war in Ukraine.”

“The Kremlin is afraid of this,” it adds.

Russia made the move to block the website this week.

Earlier in the war, Russia cut access to several foreign news organisations’ websites, including the BBC and Deutsche Welle, for spreading what it alleged was false information about its war in Ukraine.

Another Ukrainian governor, Vitaly Kim of Mykolaiv, has posted his operational status update for the day. Among a detailed list of areas and buildings struck in his region he says that in all cases there were either no casualties, or information about casualties is still being gathered.

He says that in the early hours of today four cruise missiles were intercepted and destroyed over the region.

He claims that in an attack at 5am this morning a supermarket was destroyed in Mykolaiv, and “multi-story buildings, a pharmacy, shops, and the road surface were damaged”. He also says that “the territory of the equestrian sports school was hit”.

The claims have not been independently verified.

Maksym Kozytskyi, governor of Lviv, has posted to Telegram to give a status update. He said:

Yesterday, during an air alert, the enemy launched a missile attack on a military infrastructure object near Radekhov (Chervonograd district). As a result of the impact, one building was damaged. Fortunately, no one was hurt.

The Russian occupiers fired eight rockets from the Caspian Sea into the territory of Ukraine. Six of them were shot down by anti-aircraft missile troops, another one was shot down by an Air Force fighter jet. We thank our fighters for protection and efficient work.

Radekhov is in the Lviv oblast and about 75km to the north-east of the city of Lviv.

Kozytskyi also said that 285 people arrived in Lviv on evacuation trains from the east of the country yesterday, and that 795 people departed to Przemy?l in Poland.

In the last few minutes Interfax has reported that Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov has said the US has not offered Russia to resume talks on the New Start nuclear arms reduction treaty.

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The latest intelligence update from the UK Ministry of Defence is out.

The ministry says there is likely to be an increase in civilians attempting to flee Kherson and the surrounding area as hostilities continue and food shortages worsen, putting pressure on transport routes.

They have also said that a Ukrainian strike against a Russian ammunition train in Kherson oblast, southern Ukraine, means it is “highly unlikely” the rail link between Kherson and Crimea is operational.

That full update is here:

Gerhard Schroeder, a former German chancellor and friend of Vladimir Putin, said the Russian president wanted a negotiated solution to the war in Ukraine and last month’s agreement on grain shipments might offer a way forward.

“The good news is that the Kremlin wants a negotiated solution,” Schroeder told Stern weekly and broadcasters RTL/ntv, adding he had met Putin in Moscow last week. “A first success is the grain deal, perhaps that can be slowly expanded to a ceasefire.”

Russia and Ukraine struck a deal last month to unblock grain exports from Black Sea ports and the first ship carrying Ukrainian grain to world markets since Moscow’s invasion five months ago arrived in Turkey overnight.

Schroeder said solutions to crucial problems such as Crimea could be found over time, “maybe not over 99 years, like Hong Kong, but in the next generation”. He said an alternative to Nato membership for Ukraine might be armed neutrality, such as with Austria.

The future of the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, the scene of fierce fighting, however, was more complicated.

“A solution based on the Swiss cantonal model will have to be found,” he said, adding it would have to be seen if Putin would go back to a pre-war “contact line” in a ceasefire.

Schroeder, German chancellor from 1998 to 2005, has criticised the war in Ukraine but refused to condemn Putin, whom he still calls a close personal friend.

Increasingly derided in Germany for his pro-Russia stance, Schroeder has been stripped of his right to a publicly funded office.

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