Estimated 300 dead in Mariupol theater - Official

An official in Mariupol has confirmed an estimated 300 people died in last week’s attack on a theatre
Ukraine is re-occupying some towns and defensive positions up to 35km east of Kyiv, the UK Ministry of Defence says
US President Joe Biden is due to visit a Polish town near the border with Ukraine as he wraps up his trip in Europe
The US and the EU have announced a major gas deal, in an attempt to reduce Europe’s reliance on Russian energy
Four civilians have been killed after Russian strikes hit a medical centre in Kharkiv, local police say
Mariupol has been “destroyed” and will take “years to rebuild”, the city’s mayor has said
Biden has said the US would “respond” if Russia uses chemical or biological weapons in Ukraine
Ukraine’s President Zelensky said Europe was “a little too late” to stop Russia’s invasion, by not sanctioning Moscow and blocking the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline earlier

Image caption: US president Joe Biden (C) and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (R) arrive at the airport near Rzeszow, Poland

As we reported earlier, the plane carrying Poland’s President Andrzej Duda to meet Joe Biden in Rzeszow, eastern Poland, was turned back en route and had to make an emergency landing in Warsaw.