Kyiv once again became the object of a Russian attack. Early Thursday morning, Russian missiles hit the Ukrainian capital, killing three people, including two children. Five people were injured on Thursday as a result of night shelling in the Russian town of Shebekino in Belgorod, which damaged several buildings, the governor of the region reported.

War in Ukraine. Ukrainian military in DonbasPhoto: Adrien Vautier / Zuma Press / Profimedia

Highlights of the war in Ukraine, day 463, LIVETEXT:

09:10​Aryna Sabalenko, who qualified for the third round of Roland Garros, became the heroine of a tense moment at the press conference she held after her victory over compatriot Iryna Shymanovich. A journalist from Ukraine asked an athlete from Belarus if she could publicly condemn the war, but she did not want to cooperate.

09:02The governor of Belgorod, Vyacheslav Gladkov, said that five people were injured as a result of the shelling of the border town of Shebekino with Russia, reports Reuters.

“The armed forces of Ukraine opened fire on the center and outskirts of the city,” he added.

According to him, a residential building was directly hit, several other buildings were damaged.

08:53A Russian military transport plane was intercepted on Tuesday by the Romanian Air Force, which is on an air policing mission in the Baltic region.

08:30 As a result of an air attack on the capital of Ukraine on Thursday morning, three people, including two children, were killed, the mayor of Kyiv Vitaliy Klitsyko and the military leadership reported, AFP notes.

08:15 160 kilometers from Odesa, 47 heads of state and government of Europe and EU leaders are meeting on Thursday in the Republic of Moldova, in Bulboac, where the second meeting of the European political community is taking place.

00:43Zelenskyi: Odesa is one of the pillars of the security of our entire south, and therefore the country. All maritime nations now see what could threaten their ports and waters if Russia succeeds in blocking shipping in the Black Sea

00:33The White House says it supports a peace summit on Ukraine – even without Russia

“We’ve been talking to the Ukrainians for many, many months,” said John Kirby, the National Security Council’s strategic communications coordinator. “President Zelensky has a 10-point proposal for what he calls a just peace — and we’re helping by trying to work with his team to update that,” CNN reported.

The United States supports “movements for peace,” but any proposal must have the support of the president of Ukraine to be “reliable and sustainable,” he said. Russia’s current attack on Ukraine is not “an act of a nation that now has a serious diplomatic project,” he added.

00:26Maya Sandu accuses Russia of disrespecting the Republic of Moldova / accuses Zakharova of “lies”

Relations between the Republic of Moldova and the Russian Federation have never been based on respect, despite the efforts of the government in Chisinau, President Maia Sandu said in an interview Wednesday night on TVR Moldova. The spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, Maria Zakharova, rejected the accusations of the President of the Republic of Moldova in her Telegram channel.

A brief summary of recent events:

  • Sending Vladimir Putin to The Hague to face war crimes charges may be impossible if he is the only person the West has to negotiate with to end the war in Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has said, The Guardian reports.
  • Maya Sandu accuses Russia of disrespecting the Republic of Moldova / accuses Zakharova of “lies”
  • Zelenskyi: Odesa is one of the security pillars of our entire south, and therefore the country. All maritime nations now see what could threaten their ports and waters if Russia manages to block shipping in the Black Sea
  • Croatian President Zoran Milanovich, known for his pro-Russian views, uttered the slogan “Glory to Ukraine” [Glorie Ucrainei] has the same origin as the slogan of the far-right Ustashi movement, which operated in the country during the Second World War, Ukrainian Pravda reports.
  • The United States on Wednesday unblocked a new tranche of $300 million in military aid to Ukraine, including missiles for Patriot air defense systems, the Pentagon announced in a press release, AFP reported.
  • Russia is replacing the Wagner Group troops that seized the city with less effective units from Wednesday until June 5, Michael Clarke, former director general of the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), told Sky News.
  • Ukraine has the right to strike on the territory of Russia, if it qualifies as self-defense, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit told Deutsche Welle on May 31, Kyiv Independent reports.

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Wednesday’s events related to Russian aggression were broadcast LIVE on HotNews.ro