FIGHTING
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* Russian forces struck a market and a residential area in the city of Sloviansk near the front line in Donetsk, killing at least two people and injuring seven, according to officials.
* Russian rocket strikes hit the southern Ukrainian city of Mykolaiv, Mayor Oleksandr Senkevych said.
* Russian-backed separatists have seized two foreign-flagged ships in the southeast Ukrainian port of Mariupol, saying they are now "state property", in the first such moves against commercial shipping, letters seen by Reuters showed.
* The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament said Ukraine had become a "terrorist state" and was doing everything to ensure Russia did not stop at the borders of the Donbas region.
DIPLOMACY AND ECONOMY
* Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy renewed his appeal for security guarantees while addressing a conference hosted by The Economist. Europe needs to understand, he said, that the war in Ukraine is about Europe's safety and Ukraine is the "fence" protecting it.
* An international conference in Lugano, Switzerland, to support Ukraine has outlined a series of principles to steer Kyiv's recovery, and condemned Moscow's actions.
* Western partners should do more to help unblock Ukraine's Black Sea ports to release exports of grain, metals and mining products, a Ukrainian official said in Lugano.
* The United States does not expect any meeting this week at the G20 between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Russian Foreign Minster Sergei Lavrov.
* Russian former president Dmitry Medvedev said a reported proposal from Japan to cap Russian oil at around half its current price would lead to a market shortage that could push prices above $US300-$US400 a barrel.
HUMAN RIGHTS
* Arbitrary detention of civilians has become widespread in parts of Ukraine held by Russia's military and affiliated armed groups, with 270 cases documented, the UN human rights chief said.
QUOTES
* "The city doesn't exist anymore," said Nina, a young mother who fled Lysychansk in Luhansk province to take refuge in the central city of Dnipro. "It has practically been wiped off the face of the earth."
Australian Associated Press