Ukraine latest updates: Battle for Lysychansk city grinds on

Locals look at destroyed buildings in Lysychansk after heavy fighting in the Luhansk area, Ukraine, 18 June 2022, five kilometers north-east of Severodonetsk. The city and its surroundings have turned into a battlefield in the past weeks [Oleksandr Ratushniak/EPA]

• NATO has labelled Russia a menace to its security as the bloc plans to revise its defences in response to the war on Ukraine.
• A Russian missile attack has killed three people and injured five in the port city of Mykolaiv on Wednesday, local authorities say, following Tuesday’s raids that killed three people, including a six-year-old girl.
• The UK’s defence ministry claims Russian forces were making “incremental advances” in their offensive to capture the city of Lysychansk.
• It also says there is a real possibility the Russian missile that hit the shopping centre in Kremenchuk was intended for a nearby target.
• Russia’s deputy UN ambassador tells the United Nations Security Council that Moscow’s precision weapons hit hangars in the Kremenchuk road machinery plant, causing a fire that spread to the mall.

(Al Jazeera)