Ukraine’s prosecutor general and the head of national security agency have been suspended, but not fired. Contrary to reports on Sunday night, Ukraine’s prosecutor general and Security Service (SBU) chief have been suspended, but no decision has been made on whether to fire them, the office of President Volodymyr Zelensky clarified on Monday.

Up to 250 foreign mercenaries were killed in the attack, the Ministry of Defense has claimed A facility used by Ukraine’s “foreign legion” in Donbass has been targeted in a Russian missile strike that killed up to 250 mercenaries and destroyed a number of military vehicles, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced on Monday.

Almost uniquely, Moscow gets on with all the major regional players – it needs to harness this to its advantage This week, Russian President Vladimir Putin travels to Tehran for a summit of the guarantors of the so-called Astana process, which aims to find a political settlement in Syria.