Russia-Ukraine war: at least three dead

Three people are dead and five others have been injured after Russian shelling in the port city of Kherson, claim local authorities. The Kherson regional military administration said on its Telegram channel that Russian forces targeted a hospital, school, bus station, post office, bank and residential buildings. It said there were eight victims, three dead and five injured.

• Mourners gathered in Kyiv today to commemorate a British volunteer killed while on a rescue mission from the eastern Ukrainian town of Soledar. British voluntary aid worker Andrew Bagshaw, for whom the service was held, and fellow volunteer Chris Parry, were killed during an attempted humanitarian evacuation. Several dozen mourners, including fellow volunteers who knew Bagshaw and others who came to express their condolences at a small church on the territory of Kyiv’s ancient St Sophia cathedral for a service led by an Orthodox priest.

• Russia’s ministry of education has provided further details on plans to include basic military training in the country’s secondary schools, the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) said today. In its daily intelligence update , the MoD said that the module “will include training with AK series assault rifles and hand grenades, military drill and salutes”. It added that the initiatives, which come into force in September, are most likely a deliberate “evocation of the Soviet Union” as similar training took place in schools up until 1993.

  • Ukraine has imposed sanctions against 182 Russian and Belarusian companies, and three individuals, in the latest of a series of steps since the start of the invasion that Ukraine has taken to block Moscow’s and Minsk’s connections to Ukraine. The sanctioned companies chiefly engage in the transportation of goods, vehicle leasing and chemical production, according to the list published by the Ukraine’s national security and defence council.

  • US military officials are reportedly urging the Pentagon to supply F-16 jets to Ukraine so the country is better able to defend itself from Russian missiles and drones

  • Ukraine’s military and Russia’s Wagner private military group are both claiming to have control in the area of Blahodatne in the eastern part of the Donetsk region. “Units of Ukraine’s Defence Forces repelled the attacks of the occupiers in the areas of ... Blahodatne ... in the Donetsk region,” Ukraine’s armed forces said in its daily morning report, adding its forces also repelled attacks in 13 other settlements in the Donetsk region. The Wagner Group, designated by the US as transnational criminal organisation, said on the Telegram messaging app on Saturday that its units had taken control of Blahodatne.

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