- UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Ukraine on Thursday, and will visit the Black Sea port of Odesa on Friday.

- It is "urgent" that the UN's nuclear agency be allowed to inspect the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine that is under Russian military control, NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday.

- The first ship to depart Ukraine under a deal to resume grain exports from the country, the Sierra Leone-flagged Razoni, docked in the Syrian port city of Tartous on Tuesday.

- Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday that there was no need for Russia to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine to achieve its goals.