Meanwhile, Iran acknowledged publicly for the first time that it had given Russia deadly drones — albeit, it said, before the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion began in February. Zelensky called Tehran’s statement a “confession” after weeks of attacks from Iranian Shahed drones. Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
- From our correspondents Russia strips climate advocate of citizenship: Climate activist Arshak Makichyan, 28, who fled Russia to Berlin in March after the invasion of Ukraine, is no longer Russian, according to the government. A Moscow court decided to strip Makichyan along with his father and his brother — who both remain in Russia — of their citizenship, in what appears to be payback for his public antiwar statements. Makichyan, who is Armenian by birth, emigrated to Russia as a baby in 1995 and holds only a Russian passport, meaning the decision has rendered him effectively stateless, Francesca Ebel reports.
