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BBC News says UKRAINE is set to be approved as an EU candidate at a Brussels summit on Thursday, after the European Commission gave the green light.

The Guardian says The Nobel Peace Prize that Russian journalist Dmitry Muratov was auctioning off to raise money for Ukrainian child refugees has sold for $103.5m (£84.5m), shattering the record for a Nobel.

The Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN’S “very limited success” in Ukraine has been exposed as the Russian Air Force “underperforms”, according to the latest British military intelligence report.

The Independent says the head of the UK’s armed forces says Russia has already “strategically lost” the war in Ukraine and is now a “more diminished power”.

Euronews says Ukraine should be given candidate status for European Union membership, Emmanuel Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi affirmed on Thursday during a visit to Kyiv.

Ukraine close to EU candidate status could be granted as early as next month, with a roadmap to full membership but with conditions, to appease…

Aljazeera says Moscow has banned dozens of British journalists, media representatives, and defence figures from entering the country, the Russian foreign ministry said.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin’s health is in the spotlight once again after footage showed the 69-year-old’s legs buckling as he gives a speech.

Daily Express says VLADIMIR PUTIN’S separatists have vowed to execute two captured British fighters facing the death sentence in Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR).

The Sun says RUSSIAN-backed thugs holding two British fighters captured in Ukraine forced them to call The Sun begging for their lives before their kangaroo court trial, we can now reveal.

The Metro says Vladimir Putin has been advised not to make long public appearances because he is unwell, it has been claimed.

BBC News says Foreign Secretary Liz Truss will speak with her Ukrainian counterpart about two Britons handed death sentences by a Russian proxy court in eastern Ukraine.

Arab News says workers pulled scores of bodies from smashed buildings in an “endless caravan of death” inside the devastated city of Mariupol.

The UK will send long-range missiles to Ukraine, the defence secretary has said, despite Russia’s recent threat to the West.

Daily Express says Vladimir Putin has threatened to hit new targets if the West supplies longer-range missiles to Ukraine in the fight against Russian invaders.

The Guardian says Britain is to supply long-range rocket artillery to Ukraine, despite a threat on Sunday from Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, to bomb fresh targets if similar weapons from the US were delivered to Kyiv.

The Metro says Ukraine’s capital city was rocked by explosions for the first time in over a month today.

VOA says Russia fired a barrage of missiles early Sunday on Kyiv for the first time in more than a month, shattering a sense of normalcy in the Ukrainian capital.

VOA says Joe Biden said Tuesday he decided to provide Ukraine with “more advanced rocket systems and munitions” as part of U.S. efforts to help the Ukrainian fight against a Russian invasion now in its fourth month.

The Metro says one of Putin’s top propagandists has said World War Three has begun and Russia will now ‘demilitarise’ Nato.

The Guardian says Joe Biden has said the US will not supply Ukraine with rockets that can reach into Russia.

The Guardian says the European Union has agreed to an embargo on most Russian oil imports after late-night talks at a summit in Brussels.

France24 says EU leaders on Monday backed a ban on most Russian oil imports, after a compromise deal with Hungary to punish Moscow for the war in Ukraine.

The Independent says Russian president Vladimir Putin has been given just three years to live by doctors, it’s claimed.

The Guardian says the sharp polarisation between mainly western liberal democracies and the rest of the world in perceptions of Russia has been laid bare in an annual global poll of attitudes towards democracy.