Russia-Ukraine war live: Three killed in Kyiv as Russia launches fresh overnight strikes

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Hello and invited to the Guardian’s unrecorded sum of the warfare successful Ukraine with me, Helen Livingstone.

Kyiv has erstwhile again been deed by Russian strikes overnight, with astatine slightest 3 radical killed and different 4 injured truthful far, according to the city’s subject administration. Falling debris deed a session successful the city’s Desnyan territory arsenic good arsenic an adjacent house. Two of the dormant were children, according to the city’s mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko.

Debris besides fell connected the capital’s Dnipro district, wherever different idiosyncratic was injured according to Klitschko.

Other cardinal developments:

• The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said a negotiated bid successful Ukraine whitethorn person to beryllium prioritised implicit putting Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, connected proceedings for warfare crimes. In a code successful Bratislava, helium said: “If successful a fewer months to come, you person a model for dialog with the existing Russian governmental power, the question you volition person is an arbitrage betwixt a proceedings and a negotiation. And you volition person to negociate with the leaders you have, de facto, adjacent if the time aft you volition person to justice them successful beforehand of planetary justness ... Otherwise you tin enactment yourselves conscionable successful an intolerable concern wherever you accidental ‘I privation you to spell to jailhouse but you are the lone ones I tin negociate with’.”

• Macron besides urged Nato to connection Ukraine “tangible and credible” information assurances, arguing that it was successful the west’s interests to bash truthful arsenic Kyiv “is contiguous protecting Europe”. Leaders volition conscionable successful Vilnius, the superior of Lithuania, successful July to sermon Nato rank for Ukraine.

• The US has announced a caller $300m arms package for Ukraine, including aerial defence systems and tens of millions of rounds of ammunition, but warned Kyiv that US weaponry should not beryllium utilized for attacks wrong Russia. “We person been precise wide with the Ukrainians privately – we’ve surely been wide publically – that we bash not enactment attacks wrong Russia,” said National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby.

• A German authorities spokesperson has said Ukraine has the close to onslaught Russian territory arsenic it qualifies arsenic self-defence. In an interview with German quality website Deutsche Welle, Steffen Hebestreit said: “International instrumentality allows Ukraine to transportation retired strikes connected the territory of Russia for the intent of self-defence.”

• Russia does not program to state martial law aft Tuesday’s large-scale drone onslaught connected Moscow, the Kremlin spokesperson, Dmitry Peskov, has said. The Kremlin’s comments came aft respective starring Russian officials and pro-war figures including Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov urged Putin to respond to the drone attacks by declaring a authorities of full war.

• Russia said Ukrainian artillery deed the Russian municipality of Shebekino connected the Ukrainian borderline for a 3rd clip this week, injuring 4 people, portion drones attacked 2 lipid refineries 65-80km eastbound of Russia’s biggest lipid export terminals. Russian officials did not property blasted for the drone attacks and said a occurrence astatine 1 of the terminals was enactment out.

• The UN has projected that Kyiv, Moscow and Ankara commencement preparatory enactment for the transit of Russian ammonia done Ukraine arsenic it tries to salvage a woody allowing harmless Black Sea atom exports, a root adjacent to the talks has told Reuters. The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, successful his nightly video code accused Russia of blocking each enactment astatine the larboard of Pivdennyi, with 1.5 cardinal tonnes of cultivation products incapable to move.

• Only 500 radical are near successful Bakhmut, the metropolis successful the eastbound of Ukraine that has been taxable to dense warring successful the past year, according to its mayor. The fig from Oleksii Reva, reported by the Ukrainian quality bureau UNIAN, is simply a tiny fraction of its prewar colonisation of 70,000.

• Yevgeny Prigozhin, the caput of the Russian mercenary radical Wagner, has said helium has asked prosecutors to analyse “crimes” committed by elder Russian defence officials earlier and during the penetration of Ukraine.

• An Iraqi national warring with Wagner was killed successful Ukraine successful aboriginal April, the archetypal confirmed lawsuit of idiosyncratic from the Middle East dying successful the conflict, Prigozhin told Reuters. Abbas Abuthar Witwit died connected April 7, a time aft arriving astatine a Wagner infirmary successful the Russian-controlled eastbound Ukrainian metropolis of Luhansk, the RIA FAN quality tract besides reported.

• Russia claimed it destroyed Ukrainian naval forces’ past large warship, the Yuri Olefirenko, which it said was stationed successful the confederate larboard of Odesa. The Russian aerial unit said it attacked the vessel connected 29 May. Ukraine has not commented.

• Analysis from the Kyiv Post suggests astir 90% of the 500 missiles and drones launched by Russia successful May successful attacks connected Ukraine failed, to the outgo of $1.7bn. It said 533 of them were destroyed by the Ukrainian aerial force, including 401 Shahed-136 drones that outgo astir $20,000 each.

• The Russian information assembly lawman chair, Dmitry Medvedev, said Britain was Moscow’s “eternal enemy”. Any British officials who facilitated the warfare successful Ukraine could beryllium considered morganatic subject targets, helium said.