President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva of Brazil is expected to pitch a peace plan for Ukraine to China's top leader, Xi Jinping, during a visit to Beijing. Lula has condemned President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine, but he has also suggested in the past that President Volodymyr Zelensky and NATO share some blame for the war.
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Germany approved a Polish request to export five MIG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine that once belonged to the East German army. The decision clears the way for Poland to continue to deliver the air-defense aid package it had first announced in March.
Russia's prosecutor general said on Thursday that officials were working to verify the authenticity of a video that surfaced online and appeared to show a Russian soldier beheading a Ukrainian prisoner.