behaviour by four women. welcome to bbc news. it is a day of two important summits, with the war in ukraine being the common theme. at the g7 gathering injapan, world leaders met to discuss a new round of sanctions against russia while, at the arab league meeting in saudi arabia, president zelensky made a surprise visit, urging those attending to support ukraine. he told the gathering injeddah that, on this, the asoth day of the war, the world needed to fight the virus of aggression from moscow, stressing kyiv would not give up any sovereign territory to achieve peace. also making the headlines at that summit president assad of syria the first time he s been invited to the arab league since the devastating civil war that s blighted the country. here he is the official handshake and welcome from the saudi crown prince. more on assad in a moment and more on the g7. first, though, let s hear from volodymir zelenski. if there are people here at the summit who have a different
heart and a passion to see abortion overturned in this country, to make abortion history. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. this is bbc news. we start with some breaking news in the battle for city of lysychansk in eastern ukraine, part of the industrial donbas region that russia says focussing its military power on. lysychansk was the last ukrainian held city in luhansk. but now, russian defence ministry says russian ministry says russian and separatists forces have full control of the city. so russia is now claiming control over the entire luhansk region. there are reports of fighters in the city centre. and in another development, this time in russia, about 35 kilometres from the border with ukraine, an official in the belgorod says at least three people have been killed as a result of blasts there. the local governor said that explosions had partially destroyed 11 apartment buildings and at least 39 houses, and that the cause was being i
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against an overwhelming force. so the russians have had very, very tough going north of kyiv in large part because of fierce resistance, but also because of the trafficability of the ground. it s been different elsewhere in the country not because the ukrainians haven t fought harder, but because it s more amenable to open maneuver and the russians have been able to move their forces, amass their forces and able to more isolate some of the ukrainian defenders. so there is a russian move in the south. it s moving up toward kyiv. that is a major concern. there s also a situation as far as kyiv is concerned that you have russian forces encircling mariupol. you have kharkiv under shelling as well. these two cities are in the east. they could fall within days, maybe a little bit longer, but they will fall. some have suggested that then gives russia effective control of eastern ukraine, which cuts off the capital from ukrainian