Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 617

Ukraine’s commander-in-chief said the war with Russia was moving to a new stage of positional warfare involving static and attritional fighting, a phase he warned could benefit Moscow.

Russia has shelled more than 100 settlements within the last 24 hours, more than in any single day so far this year, Ukraine said on Wednesday.

The Italian prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, told a prank caller posing as an African leader that there was “a…