Russia-Ukraine war: what we know on day 132 of the invasion – The Guardian

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A British citizen who has been sentenced to death by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine has launched an appeal against the verdict. Aiden Aslin, 28, a British-Ukrainian former care worker from Nottinghamshire who was a Ukrainian marine, was captured by Russian forces in the besieged city of Mariupol in April.

The UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, has said alternative routes to retrieve grain stuck in Ukraine would need to be looked at, including through Europes Danube River, if it cannot be moved via the Bosphorus strait in Turkey. The Turks are absolutely indispensable to solving this. Theyre doing their very best We will increasingly have to look at alternative means of moving that grain from Ukraine if we cannot use the sea route, if you cant use the Bosphorus, he told parliament on Monday.

Turkey has halted a Russian-flagged cargo ship off its Black Sea coast and is investigating a Ukrainian claim that it was carrying stolen grain, a senior Turkish official said on Monday.

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