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Five children among dead as toll from Russian missile attacks across Ukraine rises to 26; five EU countries agree on Ukrainian grain transit deal

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Young Veronika’s neighbours stunned at brutal arrival of Russia’s invasion in the suburb to where she fled to avoid the missiles

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The Russian attack killed Veronika in her bed on Friday morning, but left her childish chalk drawings of a happy family intact on the wall of their home.

Portraits of “Mama”, “Nika” (her nickname), her uncles, grandparents and even the family cat “Kuzia” – the names written in by an adult – stretch all along the front of the house.

More than 20 people confirmed dead in wake of Russian aerial bombing of Ukrainian cities on Friday morning

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The Kyiv Independent is now reporting that the air defence systems are at work in Kyiv and that people should remain in shelters.

A missile has reportedly hit a high-rise building in Uman, in the Cherkasy region on central Ukraine. Euromaidan, Kyiv Operativ and Faytuks news have posted videos of the reported attack, which shows a large part of a residential building totally blown apart. It is unknown at this stage how many people were inside.

Woman and child die in Dnipro, while missile strikes in Uman, south of Kyiv, kill 19

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Russian cruise missiles have killed at least 19 people in the central Ukrainian cities of Uman and Dnipro, days after Ukraine’s leader, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, begged his allies for more air defence supplies.

The attacks were part of a wave of Russian missile and drone strikes in the early hours of Friday morning, the most intense aerial bombing of major Ukrainian cities in weeks.

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Reuters has taken a hard look at satellite imagery of Russia’s “vast network of fortifications, sweeping down from western Russia through eastern Ukraine and on to Crimea” and built in readiness for Ukraine’s expected counteroffensive.

The news agency says it has examined thousands of defensive positions, both inside Russia and along Ukrainian front lines, and concluded Russia is most heavily defended in the southern Zaporizhzhia region and the gateway to the Crimean Peninsula.

It’s not the numbers for the Ukrainians. It’s can they do this kind of warfare, combined arms operations? The Russians have shown they can’t do it and they’ve gone back to their old Soviet method of attrition.

We’ve cleaned out most of the stocks in the West. It’s going to take some years to rebuild. I think this is Ukraine’s big opportunity to press on.

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Here are the images shared by the German air force of the Russian aircraft intercepted over the Baltic Sea.

They are reported to be two SU-27 flankers and one IL-20 aircraft.

Everybody fears that they won’t allow Belarusians to keep watching the war from a distance for too long.

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Russia’s foreign ministry has summoned the Moldovan ambassador in Moscow over the expulsion last week of a Russian diplomat in Moldova, state-owned news agency RIA reported.

Last week, Moldovan government press secretary Daniel Voda told reporters the decision to expel a Russian diplomat was connected to the actions of embassy staff towards Moldovan border guards at Chisinau airport.

Kupyansk, city centre, local history museum. The terrorist country is doing everything to destroy us completely. Our history, our culture, our people. Killing Ukrainians with absolutely barbaric methods. We have no right to forget about it for a single second. We must and will respond!

So far, it is known about a dead employee of the museum, and 10 wounded. There are still people under the rubble. Elimination of the consequences of shelling continues. All necessary services are involved.

Nikolai Peskov, 33, says he sought father’s help to serve anonymously in mercenary group for six months

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The son of the Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov has claimed he served as an artilleryman with the Wagner mercenary group in Ukraine for nearly six months.

In an interview with the pro-Kremlin daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Nikolai Peskov, 33, said: “It was my duty … I couldn’t sit to one side watching as friends and others went off there.”

Apparent move in occupied areas comes as Ukrainian military sets up positions on eastern side of Dnipro River

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Ukrainian authorities say Russian forces are “forcibly evacuating” civilians in the area of the Kherson region that they still occupy, a day after it was claimed Ukrainian forces had established a bridgehead on the east bank of the Dnipro River.

“I have information that the evacuation starts today [Sunday] with an excuse of protecting civilians from the consequences of heavy fighting in the area,” Oleksandr Samoylenko, the Ukrainian head of Kherson’s regional council, said. Russian troops were “trying to steal as much as they can” as they withdrew, he added.

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Recent remarks by China’s ambassador to France questioning the sovereignty of former Soviet states such as Ukraine are totally unacceptable, the Czech Republic’s foreign minister Jan Lipavský said before a meeting with EU colleagues in Luxembourg on Monday.

“It is totally unacceptable”, Lipavský said. “I hope bosses of this ambassador will make these things straight.”

Ukraine says Russia is taking up defensive positions in most combat areas apart from Bakhmut