TOP HEADLINES

• Ukraine said the International Court of Justice should impose reparations on Russia, arguing that international law itself was at stake. READ MORE BELOW

• The majority of the international community wants peace in Ukraine rather than to weaken Russia, as Western countries do, according to Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN. READ MORE BELOW

• Russia has ramped up the production of some military hardware by more than tenfold to supply its army in Ukraine, Moscow's biggest weapons producer said.

• Ukraine's air defense systems destroyed 27 out of 30 drones and one Iskander ballistic missile that Russia launched on Ukraine's territory early on Tuesday, Ukraine's air force said.

• Russia struck three industrial warehouses in a drone strike on the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, causing a huge fire and killing at least one person, local officials said.

• The World Trade Organization confirmed Ukraine had taken the first step in a trade dispute by filing a complaint to the global trade body over bans on food imports from Ukraine.

• There has been some improvement in safety at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi said. (RIA) 

• A cargo ship which entered the Ukrainian Black Sea port of entered Chornomorsk last week has departed with 3,000 metric tons of grain, Ukraine's Deputy Prime Minister Oleksandr Kubrakov said.

• Pope Francis met on Monday with the new Russian ambassador to the Vatican, who said they discussed the pontiff's efforts to bring peace to Ukraine.

• Evidence suggests a deadly explosion at a busy market in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostiantynivka this month was caused by an errant missile fired by Ukraine, the New York Times has reported.

• Denmark will donate another 45 tanks to Ukraine, news agency Ritzau reported, citing the country's Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen.

IN DETAIL

Ukraine urges world court to impose 'reparations' over conflict

Ukraine said the International Court of Justice should impose reparations on Russia, arguing that international law itself was at stake.

"Russia is not above the law. It must be held accountable," Ukraine's lead speaker, Anton Korynevych, told the court, sitting just a few meters from his Russian opponents in the Peace Palace in The Hague.

"You have the power to declare that Russia's actions are unlawful, that its continued abuses must stop, that your orders must be followed and that Russia must make reparations," he told the judges.

Kyiv's argument is that Russian President Vladimir Putin invoked a supposed "genocide" against pro-Russian people in eastern Ukraine as one of the reasons for Moscow to initiate their so-called 'special military operation.' 

This, according to Ukraine, is a misuse of the UN Genocide Convention, set up in 1948 and signed by both Kyiv and Moscow.

'Most of world wants peace and not a weaker Russia'

The majority of the international community wants peace in Ukraine rather than to weaken Russia, as Western countries do.

That is the opinion of Russian First Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Dmitry Polyansky who was speaking to Russian News Agency TASS.

"[Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelenskyy himself will certainly take part in this show and will try to play the main role in it," the diplomat said about the UN Security Council meeting on Ukraine on Wednesday.

"But this will not change the reality in which we live, because a significant part of the international community, an increasingly significant part, understands that the Ukrainian crisis is complex, and that there are several reasons that must be eliminated in order to achieve a long-term settlement."

Polyansky added that the international community wanted "peace in Ukraine" and "not to damage and weaken Russia, as Western states do."

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