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• Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said a new "iron curtain" was descending between Russia and the West. "It's practically already coming into place. Let them just behave carefully," Lavrov said of Western countries during a newss conference.

• U.S. President Joe Biden said Washington will provide another $800 million in weapons and military aid to Ukraine. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson said London would provide another $1.22 billion in military aid to Ukraine, while his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron said France would soon deliver six more CAESAR guns.

• Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said efforts must be intensified for a lasting ceasefire in Ukraine. He was speaking at a news conference in Madrid at the end of a NATO summit.

• A ship carrying 7,000 tonnes of grain set sail from Ukraine's occupied port city of Berdyansk, in what pro-Russian officials say is the first such shipment from a Ukrainian port since the conflict began.

• Greece is willing to provide ships to help export grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports that have been blocked by Russia, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said.

• Russia has pulled its forces from Ukraine's Snake Island, calling it a "goodwill gesture" to allow Kyiv to export agricultural products. READ MORE BELOW

• Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow is open to a dialogue on strategic stability and nuclear non-proliferation. "Russia is open to dialogue on ensuring strategic stability, preserving non-proliferation regimes for weapons of mass destruction and improving the situation in the field of arms control," Putin said in remarks to a legal forum in his home city of St. Petersburg.

• Russia says over 6,000 Ukrainian servicemen have been captured or surrendered, RIA news agency cited the defense ministry as saying.

• Ukraine says that 144 of its soldiers, 95 of whom are former defenders of the Azovstal steelworks in the southern port city of Mariupol, have been freed in a prisoner swap with Moscow. 

• Turkey says it will seek the extradition of 33 alleged Kurdish militants and coup plot suspects from Sweden and Finland under a deal to secure its support for the Nordic countries' NATO membership bids.

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Moscow pulls out of Snake Island in 'goodwill gesture'

Russia said it had pulled its forces from Ukraine's Snake Island, calling it a "goodwill gesture" to allow Kyiv to export agricultural products. 

"On June 30, as a gesture of goodwill, the Russian armed forces completed their tasks on Snake Island and withdrew a garrison stationed there," the defense ministry said in a statement. 

The announcement came after Ukraine had launched several raids on Russian forces on the Black Sea island.

The Russian defense ministry said the withdrawal was aimed at demonstrating the world that "Russia is not impeding UN efforts to organize a humanitarian corridor to ship agricultural products from Ukraine."

Moscow added that the "ball is now in Ukraine's court," accusing the pro-Western country of having still not demined its Black Sea coast.  

Ukraine has accused Russia of stealing its grain, contributing to a global food shortage caused by grain exports blocked in Ukrainian ports.