Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s military and its government renewed their pleas for more Western arms as fierce fighting continued in the city of Sievierodonetsk, which President Volodymyr Zelensky has said is pivotal to the fight for the eastern region of Donbas.

While the U.S. and other countries have sent Ukraine many weapons and promised more, officials say they are not coming fast enough to hold off Russian forces.

Mykhailo Podolyak, a senior adviser to Mr. Zelensky, told the BBC that between 100 and 200 Ukrainian military personnel were now dying each day. Mr. Zelensky said last week that the army was losing 60 to 100 soldiers a day.

In other developments:
- There are now at least 4.8 million refugees from Ukraine across Europe, the U.N.’s refugee agency reported on Thursday. The war has caused “one of the largest human displacement crises in the world today,” the agency said. Read more

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