Closing summary
We’re pausing our live coverage now, here’s a summary od the day’s developments:
A Russian missile attack on the Odesa region killed two people and damaged port infrastructure on Wednesday, the region’s governor said.
Russia’s security service, the FSB, has claimed to have thwarted an attempt by Ukrainian intelligence services to induce a crew member on the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov in Murmansk to sabotage the ship.
The Kremlin has criticised new British prime minister Keir Starmer for his comments about how Ukraine can deploy the British-supplied Storm Shadow missiles.
Joe Biden has welcomed Nato member states to a Washington summit warning that “[Vladimir] Putin wants nothing less, nothing less, than Ukraine’s total subjugation … and to wipe Ukraine off the map. Ukraine can and will stop Putin.”
Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has arrived in Washington with the summit expected to focus heavily on helping Kyiv fight Russian aggression in the war in Ukraine. He said he would “fight” for Nato to strengthen Ukrainian air defences and furnish it with more F-16 fighter jets
Hungarian opposition politician Péter Magyar has delivered aid to the Kyiv children’s hospital hit during Russian airstrikes this week, Reuters reports.
Magyar’s Tisza party raised about 15 million forints ($41,000 / £32,000) and collected medical supplies and food donated by Hungarians.
“This was a sudden decision after we saw the brutal Russian missile attack,” Magyar told reporters before leaving for Kyiv. Magyar is the main opposition figure to Viktor Orbán, who has recently visited both Kyiv and Moscow.
