Zelenskiy appeals to Latin American leaders – as it happened

12.00am BST

Summary

It’s 2am in Kyiv. Here’s where things stand as we close this blog. Live coverage will resume later; all the Guardian’s Ukraine coverage can be found here.

• Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company, Energoatom, has restored its connection between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the surveillance systems of the nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia. The connections have previously been down as a result of Russian occupation.
• UK prime minister Boris Johnson has received the title of Honorary Citizen of Odesa, the Kyiv Independent reports. On Friday, Odesa mayor Henadiy Trukhanov signed an order that awarded Johnson with the Hryhoryia Marazly Honorary Badges of I, II, III degree, which automatically grants him the title.
• Ukraine’s rebuilding plans will need to address restoring war-torn ecosystems, the EU Commissioner for the Environment said. Virginijus Sinkevicius warned the environmental cost of the conflict was “increasing every day” - and said it could take “generations” to overcome.
• Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called Latin American leaders on Friday in attempts to obtain support from Latin America in his country’s fight against the Russian invasion. “I continue to establish relations with an important region — Latin America,” Zelenskiy wrote on social media in regards to his conversations with leaders of Argentina and Chile.
• Ukraine’s army accused Russia of carrying out strikes using incendiary phosphorus munitions on Snake Island Friday, just a day after Moscow withdrew its forces from the strategic Black Sea outpost. “Today at around 18:00... Russian air force SU-30 planes twice conducted strikes with phosphorus bombs on Zmiinyi island,” it said in a statement, using another name for Snake Island.
• A new Reuters investigation has found that at least 14 Russian weapons companies have not faced any Western sanctions. “Nearly three dozen leaders of Russian weapons firms and at least 14 defense companies have not been sanctioned by the United States, the European Union or the United Kingdom,” the Reuters report said.
• The US announced on Friday that it will provide Ukraine with an additional $820 million in military aid. The new aid package will include new surface-to-air missile systems and counter-artillery radars to respond to Russia’s long-range strikes in its war against Ukraine.
• Ukraine’s outspoken ambassador to Germany, a talkshow staple who was central to the public debates that led Berlin to step up weapons deliveries to Kyiv, is facing criticism for defending World War Two Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera in an interview. An interview with journalist blogger Tilo Jung published on Thursday quoted the ambassador saying that Bandera was not a “mass murderer of Poles and Jews,” causing uproar from both the Polish government and the Israeli embassy.

Updated at 12.16am BST

11.17pm BST

Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company, Energoatom, has restored its connection between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the nuclear plant in the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, the Kyiv Independent reports.

⚡️ Energoatom reconnects IAEA, Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company restored the connection between the International Atomic Energy Agency and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant's surveillance systems, which had been down due to Russian occupation.

— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) July 1, 2022