Closing summary
A Russian missile struck a school in the town of Nikopol in the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday, killing at least four people, Ukrainian officials said.
Nato has promised a “determined” response if damage to an undersea gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia proves deliberate.
An international team of prosecutors seeking to put Russia’s top officials on trial over the Ukraine invasion has already gathered “thousands” of pieces of evidence, the head of EU judicial agency, Eurojust, has told AFP.
In its latest intelligence update, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has said the Russian military is facing a “mental health crisis”, with many personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
Ukraine’s security service said it had identified two suspected informers who allegedly helped Russia strike at a wake last week.
A former prime minister of Slovakia who plans to end the country’s military support for Ukraine is poised to return to office after his political party signed a deal with two other parties to form a coalition government.
Belgium will send F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine from 2025, its defence minister, Ludivine Dedonder, said.
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Russian missile strike kills four in Ukrainian school, officials say
The death toll from the Russian missile strike on a school in the town of Nikopol in the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk has been revised from three to four by Ukrainian officials.
“As a result of the Russian strike, four people died: a 72-year-old man and three women aged 69, 67 and 60,” the interior minister, Ihor Klymenko, said on Telegram.
Two people who were injured were receiving medical assistance, he added.
Klymenko said earlier that the victims were employees of the educational institution (see earlier post at 17.35).
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