Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 699

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Russia’s foreign minister has clashed with the US and Ukraine’s other supporters at the UN security council after Moscow ruled out any peace plan backed by Kyiv and the west, and China warned that further global chaos could affect the slowing world economy. Sergei Lavrov, Russian foreign minister, told the security council that peace plans presented by Ukraine and the west were “a road to nowhere”. US deputy ambassador Robert Wood countered that it was Vladimir Putin’s “single-minded pursuit of the obliteration of Ukraine and subjugation of its people that is prolonging” the war that began with Moscow’s 2022 invasion....