News reports say the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) traveled to Ukraine last week for secret talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Ukraine's Security Service says it has apprehended a network of agents of Russia's GRU military intelligence, who, among other things, coordinated Russian missile strikes in the city of Dnipro, where at least 46 people were killed after a missile hit a residential building.
The United Nations says that its first humanitarian convoy has reached the area around Soledar, which has seen some of the fiercest fighting in eastern Ukraine in recent weeks.
A former Georgian soldier has opened fire from his balcony, killing five people, including a police officer, and injuring five others in the eastern town of Sagarejo.