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5h ago
11.00 BST
Summary of the day so far …
- Three people including a child were killed and at least 11 people were injured in an early morning missile attack on Kyiv that hit apartment buildings, two schools and a children’s clinic, according to city authorities. The attack, on International Children’s Day, reportedly involved 10 Iskander short-range missiles, and there was only a few minutes’ warning before they hit. Most of the damage appeared to be from falling debris after the incoming missiles were intercepted by the capital’s air defences.
- Initial reports said a girl, her mother and another woman were killed. There was also a child among the wounded. Nearly 500 children have been killed in military attacks in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.
- The mayor of Kyiv has asked for a district administrator and the head of a medical facility to be suspended while investigations continue into the circumstances of the deaths. Reports say they were stuck outside a locked air raid shelter when they were struck by falling debris. Law enforcement officers are investigating the claims.
- Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, has announced there will be an inspection of the operation of air shelters in his city tonight.
- Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, announced that events to celebrate International Children’s Day in the city had been cancelled as a result of the overnight barrage.
- Tass reports that authorities in Belgorod are denying there has been a border incursion in Russia.
- Eight people were wounded by overnight shelling that continued into the morning in the Russian town of Shebekino that damaged multiple buildings, the governor of the local Belgorod region said on Thursday. Vyacheslav Gladkov also reported that two teachers at a rural school in Novopetrovka received shrapnel wounds and had been hospitalised after the building was struck by fire from the Ukrainian armed forces, and said state maths exams in Shebekino had been cancelled as a result of continued cross-border shelling.
- The Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia’s defence ministry, border guards, emergency services and local authorities were constantly reporting to Vladimir Putin on the situation in Belgorod.
- Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged the international community to put concrete “security guarantees” in place in Ukraine and its neighbour Moldova to give the countries enduring protection against Russia. First to arrive at the summit of 47 European leaders in Moldova, the Ukrainian president said he would also be speaking on Thursday to partner countries about putting in place a “potential air jets coalition” and a coalition providing Patriot missiles.
- Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Oslo, where the French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, said the Nato alliance needed to think about what kind of security guarantees it could give Ukraine, and Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said the time had come for Nato members to find a concrete answer to the question of how Ukraine could become a member.
- Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström, also in Oslo, said the time had come for Turkey and Hungary to ratify his nation’s Nato membership application. “We have fulfilled all our commitments,” Billström said. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said he would soon travel to Turkey to discuss Sweden’s Nato membership.
- Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Thursday that it had uncovered a US National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to penetrate specially made backdoor vulnerabilities in iPhones.
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