Homesick Ukrainians have returned in droves to Kyiv since Russia withdrew its forces from the capital. Of the 5mn Ukrainians who fled their war-torn country, more than 1mn have returned. (Free-to-read)
https://on.ft.com/3kv3gmT
Last week Russia unexpectedly said that it would make $649mn of bond payments in a last-gasp attempt to stave off a sovereign default. But it might have blinked too late to actually prevent one.
https://on.ft.com/37TVYq6
More than 100 people were evacuated from a steelworks in Mariupol. The steel plant has become the last holdout of Ukrainian resistance to Russian forces in the besieged port city, where about 1,000 civilians are said to have sought refuge.
https://on.ft.com/3kvvRbt
