Officials in Lviv said six people including a child were kille | Financial Times Ukraine news

Officials in Lviv said six people including a child were killed in Russian missile strikes on Monday morning on the city in western Ukraine, which has been a haven for people fleeing the war from other parts of the country. The attacks on the city came as concerns grew for civilians hiding out in a steelworks in the besieged south-eastern port of Mariupol, where Moscow’s troops have tightened their control after weeks of fighting. (free to read)

A third of the Russian Orthodox church's parishes in Russia and Ukraine lie in Ukraine, but clergymen who condemn the war find themselves at odds with a church that has thrown its ideological weight behind Vladimir Putin.

The origins of the war in Ukraine lie in Russian economic stagnation, corruption and the president’s dwindling popularity. But with the war not going Putin’s way, we are seeing his dictatorship turn from one based on spin to one based on fear, writes economics professor Sergei Guriev.