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The Defense Department and the Justice Department are reviewing a handful of documents that were released on several social media sites and appear to detail U.S. and NATO aid to Ukraine, but may have been altered or used as part of a misinformation campaign.

The Russian president's administration has demanded regional vice governors install vending machines, offer free parking in cities and preferential bank loans, as well as provide health insurance for civil servants, according to independent Russian media Verstka.

The President of Ukraine said that he could not give specific details about the upcoming counter-offensive, "because we cannot give terrorists from the Russian Federation an opportunity to prepare for our methods and steps towards de-occupation", reports the Kyiv Independent.

More than 25 million tons of grain have been exported to the world markets from Ukraine through the Black Sea corridor, the Turkish Defense Ministry has announced, days after the initiative was extended for another term.

The chief of the UN atomic watchdog said on Wednesday he was working on a compromise security plan for the Moscow-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and warned of increased military activity around it.

Finns are the happiest people in the world. This is clear from the World Happiness Report published on Monday. Finland has been ranked as the country with the happiest population in the world for the sixth year in a row. Bulgaria is in 77th place.

Day 391 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

German arms manufacturer Rheinmetall joined Frankfurt's blue-chip DAX index yesterday, highlighting the improving fortunes of the country's weapons industry as the Ukraine war spurs demand.

In a country still haunted by Nazi atrocities during World War II, Germany's weapons manufacturers were far from the country's most celebrated firms.

The Polish ambassador to France, Jan Emerick Rosciszewski, said on LCI that Warsaw would intervene in the conflict with Moscow if Kyiv was defeated.
"It is not NATO, Poland or Slovakia that is exerting growing pressure, it is Russia that attacked Ukraine. Russia is stealing its territories. Russia is killing its own people. Russia is kidnapping Ukrainian children," he said.

The minister said that countries that did not support Ukraine, as well as those that treated Ukraine badly during the war, will pay the price in the future. Kuleba clarified that he was thinking of building future relations.