RUSSIAN ARMY SHELLS CENTER OF KUPIANSK WITH AERIAL BOMBS, DEATHS REPORTED.

UPDATE: A forced evacuation may be announced for the Kupiansk area.

LET’S EAT: New bakery ‘Dva batona’ opens in North Saltovka this month … Mr Bourbon Coffee now serving kambucha … Six places to try out shawarma in Kharkiv … Franyk Croissants hints at a reopening … Some Like It Hot offering new pasta dishes.

BUSINESS INSIDER: Warren Buffeet’s son gives 500 million to Ukraine, says Congress should step up.

TEN YEARS OF WAR: A timeline from the Kyiv Independent.

News of the day:

MENON: ‘PUTIN HAS LOST UKRAINE’ … US STATE DEPT: ‘WE DO NOT BELIEVE PUTIN HAS THE ADVANTAGE IN THIS WAR’ … Zelensky signs a decree to allow foreigners to serve in the National Guard … The SBU has detained a woman suspected of directing missiles to civilian buildings in Kharkiv … Ukraine’s spy chief warns of a plot to ‘Kill Famous Ukrainians’.

UKRAINE LEAVES AVDIIVKA: BBC story here … CNN story here … Russian authorities refuse access to Navalny’s body … Denmark to donate all artillery to Ukraine … and Medvedev threatens to use teh nukes from his drunk bunker. How’s your Sunday?

EMERGENCY CHARITY FOR STANISLAV ASEYEV ON THE FRONT LINES:

RUSSIAN OPPOSITION LEADER NAVALNY DIES IN PRISON … according to Russian media, ‘Medics arrived in less than seven minutes’ after his collapse … Von Der Leyen: ‘Deeply disturbed and saddened’ by the news … Dmytro Kuleba: ‘Time to end naivete’ about Putin…

NEWS UPDATES FOR YOUR TUESDAY: US Senate passes aid bill, but it’s likely to fail in the House… AFU reveals that reinforcements are on their way to Avdiivka… Estonian PM Kaja Kallas now on the Russian wanted list… Russian shelling of Vovchansk kills 1, injures 1… Russia’s attack on Kharkiv’s oil refinery has polluted its rivers with oil products.

ZALUZHNY OUT AFTER ALL… ‘A decision was made to change the Armed Forces Leadership’… General Oleksandr Syrskyi appointed in his place, readers may recall that he led the Kharkiv liberation in 2022.