Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says the city of Severodonetsk is seeing the war’s worst fighting, and what’s happening now will decide the fate of the country’s eastern Donbas region. After failing to capture the capital Kyiv, Russia is seeking to “liberate” the Donbas region, a 3rd of which was held by Russian-backed separatists before February’s invasion. Severodonetsk is one of the region’s last cities under Ukrainian control, and Zelensky yesterday said that it is “a very fierce battle, very difficult.” Also making news from the war this morning: 2 Britons and one Moroccan who had been fighting with Ukraine have been sentenced to death by a court Russia has set up in eastern Ukraine. They were charged with being mercenaries, but the Brits’ families say they are long-serving members of the Ukrainian military. UK politicians have accused Russia of undertaking “a form of hostage-taking”.