Ukrainian rocket artillery has launched another “indiscriminate” attack on Belgorod, local authorities confirmed shortly after midnight on Friday. Residents have been warned to shelter in place.

Western hostility doesn’t mean Russia should behave like Ukraine, the foreign minister has said Russians should not give up the English language just to spite the West in the way Kiev ditched Russian to spite Moscow, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in Moscow on Thursday.

President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree granting the right to obtain Russian passports to foreigners who sign up for service in the country’s Armed Forces or other military units during the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin reported on its website on Thursday.