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Half of Western military aid to Kyiv is delivered late, says Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, as the country struggles with an ammunition shortage. SOUNDBITE
The European Union will supply Ukraine with just over half of the one million artillery shells it promised to send by March, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Wednesday. The failure to reach the target comes as Ukraine's military is being outgunned by Russian forces along the frontline nearly two years on from Moscow's invasion. SOUNDBITE
Flags fly at half mast in front of EU buildings in Brussels to honour French and European politician Jacques Delors on the day of his national tribute in Paris. IMAGES
"The Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place in the world to be a child," Catherine Russell Executive director of UNICEF tell UN Security Council. "Based on these figures, children account for forty percent of the deaths in Gaza. This is unprecedented," she adds. SOUNDBITE
The United Nations' flag is lowered to half-mast at the UN Bangkok office which hosts 21 UN agencies to commemorate its staff who have been killed and wounded in strikes in Gaza. UNRWA announced on Friday that more than 100 of its employees had died in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war. Israel has been bombing targets across the Gaza Strip since Hamas fighters carried out an unprecedented deadly attack on southern Israeli communities on October 7. IMAGES