World Top Kyiv aide questions counteroffensive readiness; Putin gains influence in oil-rich Libya 3 min 0 By Bloomberg
World Zelensky urges Nato security guarantees; Russia says it repelled another border attack 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
Maverick News Ukrainians believe South Africa is not neutral and is ‘squandering its moral capital’ 9 min 10 By Greg Mills
Maverick News BRICS diplomat Sooklal rejects notion of moving summit away from SA to legally accommodate Putin 5 min 6 By Queenin Masuabi and Peter Fabricius
World Nato foreign ministers to discuss Kyiv’s membership bid; Russia’s Lavrov meets Mozambican leaders 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
Maverick News BRICS foreign ministers meet in Cape Town as questions mount about Putin’s possible visit 3 min 14 By Peter Fabricius
World Putin pledges to boost air defence around Moscow after drone strikes; IMF signs off on fresh disbursement of aid 4 min 0 By Bloomberg
Maverick News South Africa desperately needs crafty diplomacy, not ideological posturing 6 min 2 By Gerrit Olivier and Jay van Wyk
World Russia strikes airbase in heavy new bombardment; SA Reserve Bank sounds alarm on threat of sanctions 8 min 0 By Bloomberg
World Wagner begins pulling out of Bakhmut; President Ramaphosa rules out SA abandoning neutral stance 5 min 2 By Bloomberg
World German legislators approve €843m defence order; Wagner chief blasts outcomes of Putin’s war goals 6 min 0 By Bloomberg
World Russia says troops defeated assault in border area; Europe seeks to speed up training for Kyiv’s F-16 pilots 5 min 0 By Bloomberg
Maverick News In pictures — a whole lot of fokol being loaded on to the Lady R 5 min 33 By Victoria O’Regan
Maverick News Minister of defensive — Thandi Modise repeats ‘We put fokol’ on Lady R mantra as MPs demand answers 3 min 39 By Victoria O’Regan
World Russia battles incursion by ‘saboteurs’; Zaporizhzhia atomic reactor reconnected to power grid 3 min 0 By Bloomberg
Maverick News Ramaphosa’s former adviser Bejani Chauke part of Africa’s Russia-Ukraine peace initiative 3 min 20 By Queenin Masuabi
Maverick News ANC ideological posturing on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sees SA’s hollow version of non-alignment fall flat 4 min 11 By Priyal Singh for ISS TODAY
Maverick News Russia relay — Presidency’s intelligence minister jets off to Moscow a week after the army chief’s visit 2 min 23 By Ferial Haffajee
World Zelensky says Bakhmut destruction echoes Hiroshima, proposes July peace summit 2 min 0 By Bloomberg
