Kim Willsher    France says Russia can be represented but president will not be invited because of war in UkraineRussia will be invited to send representatives to an international ceremony commemorating the th anniversary of D day but not Vladimir Putin, the French organisers have announced.The Élysée is...

Yohannes Lowe (now) and Jamie Grierson (earlier)    Kyiv brings in higher payments for volunteers and new punishments for draft dodgersWe have more in from Agence France Presse AFP on the German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Beijing to meet China’s president, Xi Jinping see earlier post at . for more details .Xi laid out what state media...

Warren Murray and agencies    Zaporizhzhia getting dangerously close to a nuclear accident’ says IAEA chief, as Russians and Ukrainians trade accusations. What we know on day See all our Ukraine war coverageUkraine’s UN ambassador, Sergiy Kyslytsya, has accused Russia of a a well planned false flag operation endangering...

Staff and agencies    Speaker rejects pressure to approve package sent over by Senate, leaving its path to passage deeply uncertainMike Johnson, the US House speaker, has unveiled a complicated proposal for passing wartime aid for Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, rejecting pressure to approve a package sent over by the...

Geoff Dyer    A recent Guardian news story on the Russian use of poison gas in Ukraine featured an arresting photograph that spoke to me of the anonymity of warThis photograph of a gas mask on a tree beside a track in Kreminna in Ukraine’s Luhansk oblast stopped me in my tracks.The original caption in the...

Charlotte Higgins    For Ukraine’s entry in this year’s Venice Biennale, two artists asked refugees to help them create an acceptable’ portrait of a woman ravaged by war. We meet the team behind an astonishing projectIn a room inside a Liverpool gallery, Saskia Pay, a young British actor dressed in studiedly ordinary...

Guardian staff and agencies    Mike Johnson has said he will aim to advance legislation to support Israel but has not clarified whether Ukraine funding will form part of packageMiddle East crisis live follow for updatesThe US House speaker, Mike Johnson, has said he will aim to advance a bill for wartime aid to Israel this...

Warren Murray with Guardian writers and agencies    Capture would give Russians a high ground advantage for further advance through Donetsk region. What we know on day Continue reading...

Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor    Andriy Kobolyev calls for more weapons after Russia destroys one of Ukraine’s largest power plantsA dramatic rise in European energy prices is inevitable if the Russian destruction of Ukrainian energy infrastructure continues unabated, the former chief executive of Ukraine’s state owned oil company...

Guardian staff and agencies    Ukraine’s Col Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi says Russia has intensified armoured assaults as battles rages over village near Bakhmut. What we know on day See all our Russia Ukraine war coverageGermany will supply a US made Patriot air defence system and air defence missiles to Ukraine at a critical...

Pjotr Sauer    Alexander Demidenko, who guided refugees back to their homeland, was arrested and tortured by Kremlin forces. One of the many he helped recalls his courage and kindnessLost and disoriented, Olena Primak stood at Belgorod’s train station, holding tightly to her young daughter’s arm. The scorching...

Dan Sabbagh at Tripilska power station, Kyiv region    Kyiv running short of missile defence systems while US military aid dries up Ukraine’s air defences are being overwhelmed by concentrated waves of Russian bombing aimed at its power stations, acknowledged a senior presidential adviser after the destruction of an entire plant on Thursday.Mykhailo...

Guardian staff and agencies    Broadcaster condemns justice ministry’s move against employee Ilya Barabanov, as well as Russian science journalist Asya Kazantseva. What we know on day See all our Russia Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

AFP in Washington    Beijing helping with drone production, space based capabilities and ballistic missile productionChina is helping Russia undertake its biggest military expansion since Soviet times, ramping up sales of machine tools, microelectronics and other technology that Moscow is using to produce missiles,...

Jim Powell    War in Gaza, destruction in Ukraine, protests in Naples and a total eclipse of the sun: the last seven days as captured by the world’s leading photojournalistsWarning: this gallery contains images that some readers may find distressing Continue reading...

Vivian Ho    This live blog is now closed, you can read more of our Ukraine war coverage hereSix Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s Belgorod oblast this morning, injuring two and damaging an administrative building, the regional governor said on Telegram.Russian air defence shot down four of the drones, said...

Martin Pengelly in Washington    Ex president could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state’, former adviser Fiona Hill tells author As president, Donald Trump made it very clear that he thought Ukraine must be part of Russia, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national...

Lisa O'Carroll in Brussels    Belgian PM says Russia is trying to influence forthcoming elections to weaken European support for UkraineProsecutors in Belgium have opened an investigation into alleged payments by Russia to members of the European parliament following an intelligence operation in Brussels, the Belgian prime...

Guardian staff    Ukraine parliament passes controversial mobilisation bill to boost troop numbers; Japan’s prime minister calls on US to continue supporting Ukraine. What we know on day See all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

Léonie Chao-Fong    This live blog is now closed. You can read more of our US politics coverage here. The Democratic senator for Virginia, Tim Kaine, is best known nationally as Hillary Clinton’s running mate in the presidential election, a race they lost to Republicans Donald Trump and Mike Pence. The Biden ally...