- Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday held phone talks with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and discussed the situation in Mariupol.

- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko will meet Putin "in the near future," BelTA reported on Thursday.

- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday talked over the phone and discussed the latest on the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

- German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday announced that German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock will visit Ukraine in the near future.