Russia-Ukraine war news: Ukraine bolsters border with Belarus
Ukraine is bolstering its defenses on its border with Russian-aligned Belarus, laying down thousands of antitank mines.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with his top military and intelligence officials to discuss how to “prevent the leakage of information regarding the plans of the defense forces of Ukraine,” his office said in a statement after the unauthorized release of classified Pentagon documents that appear to detail Ukraine’s combat capabilities and Western support. The statement did not provide further details. Senior Ukrainian officials dismissed the leak.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
“Life and Fate,” a novel about a Soviet society torn apart by war, is one of the books he has, his friends say, as he is held in Lefortovo prison days after Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested the Moscow-based Wall Street Journal reporter and charged him with espionage. Gershkovich, along with the Journal and the U.S. State Department, has denied Russia’s accusations of spying. His appears to be the first case of Russia arresting a foreign journalist and accusing him of espionage since the end of the Cold War.
“It’s deeply ironic he’s reading that book in jail now,” said Pjotr Sauer, a friend of Gershkovich’s and a journalist who covers Russia and Ukraine for the Guardian.
Friends and colleagues who spoke to The Washington Post’s Timothy Bella emphasized how they’ve come together to do whatever they can to help free Gershkovich — a high school soccer star in New Jersey, a philosophy major in Maine, a curious reporter in Russia.
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