Summary

Antony Blinken and Lloyd Austin promise Ukraine $322m in military aid, after meeting President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv.

They also say US diplomats will start returning to the western city of Lviv in the coming week.

Ukraine will try to establish humanitarian routes out of the besieged port city of Mariupol on Monday, says Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk.

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) has called for the release of members detained in separatist-held Ukraine.

The UK’s defence ministry says Russia planning a staged referendum in the southern city of Kherson to justify the invasion.

Source: Al Jazeera 

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