BBC –
- “Stalemate is not an option” for Ukraine, the country’s president has said, as he again floated the idea of Nato membership
- Volodymyr Zelensky said the country had lost too many people to “simply cede our territory”
- Russia has long opposed Ukraine joining Nato, and Zelensky previously said he accepted his country could not join the military alliance
- Earlier, Zelensky said Russian attacks on Severodonetsk and Lysychansk in the Donbas region had turned them into “dead cities”
