At least five explosions rocked the city of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine on Wednesday as Russian forces pound the region ahead of an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, is set to travel to Washington on Wednesday to meet with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken as part of continued efforts to salvage the Black Sea grain deal.
A month after the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges, allies like South Africa remain under pressure over whether they would move to arrest the Russian leader if he were to step onto their soil.