War in Ukraine: Latest developments

Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:

- Russian deadly strike in east -

A Russian missile strike partially destroys an apartment building, killing 20 people, as Moscow's forces seek to consolidate their control over the Donbas region. 

"Twenty dead and eight injured for now" after a four-storey building was hit by a Russian Uragan missile, Donetsk regional governor Pavlo Kyrylenko says on Telegram.

Strikes are also reported in Kharkiv, Ukraine's second city in the northeast, where a "teaching establishment" and a house are hit, wounding one, according to regional governor Oleg Sinegubov.

- Reduced gas supplies -

Russian energy giant Gazprom begin 10 days of maintenance on its Nord Stream 1 pipeline -- with Germany and other European countries watching anxiously to see if the gas comes back on.

After the Nord Stream stop, Italian energy company Eni and Austrian Group OMV both report their supplies from Gazprom had also been reduced.

- Wheat harvest -

Russian officials in Kharkiv announce the start of the harvest "in the liberated territories of the region", according to Russian news agency RIA Novosti.

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meanwhile says Russia's restriction on Ukrainian grain exports may have contributed to turmoil in Sri Lanka triggered by shortages of food and fuel.

"We're seeing the impact of this Russian aggression playing out everywhere," Blinken tells reporters in Bangkok.

- Moldova hub to stem arms trade -

The European Union announces it is creating a hub in Moldova to battle organised crime, particularly arms smuggling from neighbouring Ukraine.

EU home affairs commissioner Ylva Johansson announces the EU Support Hub for Internal Security and Border Management at a meeting of EU interior ministers expanded to include counterparts from non-EU countries Ukraine and Moldova.

The commissioner says the hub will be a "one-stop shop" allowing Europol to share information and for the EU's border guard agency Frontex to support border management and detection of firearms trafficking. It will also aim to counter the trafficking of human beings.

- Media crackdown -

Russia pursues its crackdown on news coverage critical of its conduct in the war, blocking the website of the German daily Die Welt, the latest in a growing list.

Since the start of the conflict the German newspaper has published content in Russian.