Our live coverage will remain paused today, but let's catch you up on where things stand and on any updates overnight.
- Russia said 35 rockets and three drones were fired into Belgorod and overnight, claiming to have destroyed all of them;
- Blasts were heard in Kherson as Russia shelled the city, said its regional governor Roman Mrochko;
- The leader of Russia's Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, met Vladimir Putin and offered to send more fighters to the frontline;
- Volodymyr Zelenskyy issued
a fresh plea for upgraded defence systems to
protect Ukraine's cities against guided bombs, which he
described as the "the main instrument" now used by Moscow';
- A Russian airstrike on
Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv yesterday destroyed a
cafe, damaged a nearby residential building and set a petrol
station ablaze, with local officials saying ten people were
wounded.