[EN DIRECT] 110th day of war in Ukraine: here are all the latest developments

The war continues for a 110^e day in Ukraine as the Ukrainian army says it has been driven out of the center of Severodonetsk, a key city in the east of the country.

Here are the latest developments, minute by minute

8:08 am | Cities, a strategic and moral issue for Kyiv in the war

Mariupol, Severodonetsk, soon another city no doubt. The Ukrainians defend their cities with abnegation, including when defeat seems inevitable, a way of slowing down the Russian advance but also of galvanizing the morale of the troops.

4:47 | Ukrainian army says it was driven out of central Severodonetsk

Russian troops have chased the Ukrainian army from the center of Severodonetsk, a key city in eastern Ukraine that the two armies have been fighting over for weeks, the Ukrainian general staff announced on Monday.

2h46 | European leaders in Israel to discuss energy and Ukraine

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi are expected in Jerusalem on Monday for talks with Israeli officials who are trying, against a backdrop of war in Ukraine, to export some of their new gas windfall.

00:45 | The despair of Ukrainian farmers held hostage to the grain blockade

Nadia Ivanova should have harvested in the coming days, but so far this farmer from southern Ukraine exporting all over the world has only harvested shells.

“We planted very late because everything had to be cleared beforehand,” the 42-year-old farmer told AFP in the middle of her huge fertile fields.

00:45 | Ex-Russian prime minister says he no longer recognizes Putin

He was Vladimir Putin’s first head of government. But even in his worst nightmares, Mikhail Kasyanov could not have imagined his former leader embarking on the invasion of Ukraine.

“The Putin I knew was different,” said Mr. Kassianov during a rare interview, by videoconference, with AFP.