Russian naval commander announced dead by Kyiv appears again on state TV

Russian state media has once again broadcast undated footage of Black Sea Fleet commander Viktor Sokolov, who Kyiv claimed to have killed in a missile attack targeting the fleet's headquarters in Crimea. 

Kremlin slams Western ‘reports’ that Mariupol residents ‘forcibly transported’ to Russia - TASS

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has castigated Western media reports that the Russian military was forcibly transporting Mariupol residents to Russia as complete fabrications.

Ukraine refused to ‘sign a suicide note’, sending the EU’s ‘geopolitical project’ onto the rocks.

Joining an old European geopolitical and ideological project would have been catastrophic for the Ukrainian economy, political expert John Laughland told RT, noting that it was actually the EU, not Russia, blackmailing Ukraine into signing a suicide note.

RT: The European foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton says Ukraine's U-turn is indeed a major disappointment. Who is the biggest loser here - Ukraine or the EU?

John Laughland: The biggest loser here is the EU because the EU has conceived this Association Agreement, like all the other agreements that it tries to sign with the former Eastern European states, as a geopolitical project. It is very important to understand that in the midst of all the accusations against Russia it is actually the EU which sees Eastern expansion as a geopolitical and indeed an ideological project.