• Shelling has intensified around the suburbs of Kyiv, and Ukraine’s deputy defense minister said Russian forces are attempting to establish a “corridor” around the Ukrainian capital to block supply routes.
• Russia continued missile strikes across Ukraine Sunday, including the cities of Lutsk, Kharkiv, Zhytomyr and Rivne, an adviser to the Ukrainian president said.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to accept a neutral status as part of a peace deal with Russia but any agreement would have to be put to the Ukrainian people in a referendum.
• Russia could be looking to carve Ukraine in two – like North and South Korea — but its operations around Kyiv had failed and it was now impossible to overthrow the Ukrainian government, Ukraine’s military intelligence head said.
