Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 463 of the invasion

Three people including a child were killed and at least 11 people were injured in an early morning missile attack on Kyiv that hit apartment buildings, two schools and a children’s clinic, according to city authorities. The attack, on International Children’s Day, reportedly involved 10 Iskander short-range missiles, and there was only a few minutes’ warning before they hit. Most of the damage appeared to be from falling debris after the incoming missiles were intercepted by the capital’s air defences.

Initial reports said an 11-year-old girl, her mother and another woman were killed. There was also a child among the wounded. Nearly 500 children have been killed in military attacks in Ukraine since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022.

The mayor of Kyiv has asked for a district administrator and the head of a medical facility to be suspended while investigations continue into the circumstances of the deaths. Reports say that the victims were stuck outside a “locked” local air raid shelter when they were struck by falling debris. Law enforcement officers are investigating the claims.

Andriy Sadovyi, the mayor of Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, has announced there will be an inspection of the operation of air shelters tonight in his city as a result.

Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, announced that events to celebrate International Children’s Day in the city had been cancelled as a result of the overnight barrage.

Tass reports that authorities in Belgorod are denying there has been a border incursion in Russia.

Eight people were wounded by overnight shelling that continued into the morning in the Russian town of Shebekino that damaged multiple buildings, the governor of the local Belgorod region said on Thursday. Vyacheslav Gladkov also reported that two teachers at a rural school in Novopetrovka had received shrapnel wounds and had been hospitalised after the building was struck by fire from the Ukrainian armed forces, and that state maths exams in Shebekino have been cancelled as a result of continued cross-border shelling.

The Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Thursday that Russia’s defence ministry, border guards, emergency services and local authorities were constantly reporting to Vladimir Putin on the situation in Belgorod.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy has urged the international community to put concrete “security guarantees” in place in Ukraine and its neighbour Moldova to give the countries enduring protection against Russia. First to arrive at the summit of 47 European leaders in Moldova, the Ukrainian president said he would also be speaking on Thursday to “partner countries” about putting in place a “potential air jets coalition” and a coalition providing Patriot missiles.

Nato foreign ministers are meeting in Oslo, where the French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, said the Nato alliance needed to think about what kind of security guarantees it could give Ukraine, and Lithuania’s foreign minister, Gabrielius Landsbergis, said the time had come for Nato members to find a concrete answer to the question of how Ukraine could become a member.

Sweden’s foreign minister, Tobias Billström, is in Oslo and said the time had come for Turkey and Hungary to ratify his nation’s Nato membership application. “We have fulfilled all our commitments,” Billström said. The Nato secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, said he would soon travel to Turkey to discuss Sweden’s Nato membership.

Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Thursday that it had uncovered a US National Security Agency (NSA) plot using previously unknown malware to penetrate specially made backdoor vulnerabilities in iPhones.

The French president, Emmanuel Macron, said on Wednesday a negotiated peace in Ukraine may have to be prioritised over putting Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, on trial for war crimes. In a speech in Bratislava, he said: “If in a few months to come, you have a window for negotiation with the existing Russian political power, the question you will have is an arbitrage between a trial and a negotiation. And you will have to negotiate with the leaders you have, de facto, even if the day after you will have to judge them in front of international justice ... Otherwise you can put yourselves just in an impossible situation where you say: ‘I want you to go to jail but you are the only ones I can negotiate with.’”

Macron also urged Nato on Wednesday to offer Ukraine “tangible and credible” security assurances, arguing that it was in the west’s interests to do so as Kyiv “is today protecting Europe”. Leaders will meet in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, in July to discuss Nato membership for Ukraine.

The US on Wednesday announced a new $300m arms package for Ukraine, including air defence systems and tens of millions of rounds of ammunition, but warned Kyiv that US weaponry should not be used for attacks within Russia. “We have been very clear with the Ukrainians privately – we’ve certainly been clear publicly – that we do not support attacks inside Russia,” said the National Security Council spokesman John Kirby.

A German government spokesperson on Wednesday said Ukraine has the right to attack Russian territory as it qualifies as self-defence. In an interview with the German news website Deutsche Welle, Steffen Hebestreit said: “International law allows Ukraine to carry out strikes on the territory of Russia for the purpose of self-defence.”

The UN has proposed that Kyiv, Moscow and Ankara start preparatory work for the transit of Russian ammonia through Ukraine as it tries to salvage a deal allowing safe Black Sea grain exports, a source close to the talks has told Reuters. Zelenskiy in his nightly video address accused Russia of blocking all activity at the port of Pivdennyi, with 1.5m tonnes of agricultural products unable to move.

Only 500 people are left in Bakhmut, the city in the east of Ukraine that has been subject to heavy fighting in the last year, according to its mayor. The figure from Oleksii Reva, reported by the Ukrainian news agency UNIAN, is a tiny fraction of its prewar population of 70,000.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, has said he has asked prosecutors to investigate “crimes” committed by senior Russian defence officials before and during the invasion of Ukraine.

Analysis from the Kyiv Post suggests about 90% of the 500 missiles and drones launched by Russia in May in attacks on Ukraine failed, to the cost of $1.7bn. It said 533 of them were destroyed by the Ukrainian air force, including 401 Shahed-136 drones that cost about $20,000 each.