Russia Rejects Peace Plan Backed by Ukraine and West
Turkish Parliament to Debate Sweden's NATO Bid; EU Insists Ukraine Needs More Military Support
- Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, has rejected any peace plan backed by Ukraine and the West, stating that such plans are 'a road to nowhere'.
- The Turkish parliament is set to debate Sweden's NATO membership bid, which has been previously blocked by Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
- Moderate Republican congressman Dan Crenshaw criticizes far-right Republicans for not willing to work with Biden on border security and Ukraine aid.
- EU foreign ministers have met to discuss support to Ukraine, with the bloc's foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, insisting that Ukraine 'needs more and faster military support now'.
- Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has proposed a plan to allow ethnic Ukrainians and their descendants abroad to hold Ukrainian citizenship.