Today's featured image is from Chervone, Ukraine as teenagers dig trenches for soldiers serving on their country’s eastern front. Russia's defence minstry has indicated that some troops in these border areas have returned to their bases after completing drills.
German chancellor Olaf Scholz said he welcomed the “positive signal and we hope more will follow” as he held talks in Russia, which insists it is not planning a new attack on Ukraine and accuses the West of spreading “war propaganda”.