Thank you for joining us for today’s live coverage of the war in Ukraine.

We will be pausing our live reporting overnight and returning in the morning.

In the meantime, you can read our comprehensive summary of the day’s events below.

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• At least 23 people – including three children – were killed and up to 66 others wounded after Russian missiles struck civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine. The attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred on Thursday mid-morning when the streets were full of people. Ukraine’s state emergency service says it is still searching for 39 people who are considered missing while 34 people remain in serious condition.
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• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, called the Russian attack in Vinnytsia “an open act of terrorism”. In a video address at The Hague conference, Zelenskiy urged European and International Criminal Court officials to open a “special tribunal” to investigate Russia’s invasion of his country.
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• A top Ukrainian official said the missile attacks in Vinnytsia were an “approved military strategy” by Vladimir Putin. Mykhailo Podolyak, the head of Ukraine’s negotiating team and a key adviser to President Zelenskiy said Russian forces were attacking “peaceful” Ukrainian cities such as Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, Chasiv Yar and Kharkiv in order to force Ukrainians to “peace at any price”, Podolyak wrote on Twitter. Russia’s attacks on peaceful Ukrainian cities are not a mistake, but an approved military strategy
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• A Four-year-old girl was killed in the Vinnytsia strike with social media posts charting her life and death. Footage – which the Guardian is not publishing – showed Liza Dmitrieva lying dead in her overturned pushchair. “A girl is among the dead today in Vinnytsia, she was four years old, her name was Liza. The child was four years old! Her mother is in critical condition,” Zelenskiy added.
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• The world’s largest security body has expressed “grave concern” about the alleged mistreatment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in so-called filtration centres set up by Russia in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of civilians are taken to these centres in the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, before being deported to Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said.
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• Russia has forcibly removed nearly 2 million people from Ukraine, including more than 200,000 children since its invasion in February, Zelenskiy said. “It is still being established how many children Russian forces abducted and took out of Ukraine... The preliminary figure is dreadful - about two hundred thousand children,” he told the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague.
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• The United States and more than 40 other countries have agreed to coordinate investigations into suspected war crimes in Ukraine. On Thursday, 45 countries including European Union states as well as Britain, the United States, Canada, Mexico and Australia signed a political declaration to work together at a conference in The Hague. With some 23,000 war crimes investigations now open and different countries heading teams, evidence needs to be credible and organised, officials said.
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• The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has said Russia’s war in Ukraine poses the greatest threat to the global economy. Representatives of Putin’s regime “have no place” at a meeting of the G20 countries in Bali, she said, adding that she will continue to press allies for a price cap on Russian oil, which she said would “deny Putin revenue his war machine needs”.
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• Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Kyiv was “definitely a step closer” to reaching a deal to export grain through its Black Sea ports after talks with Russia, Turkey and the UN. Turkey earlier announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the UN aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by Russia.
  
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• Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, signed into law tougher measures for individuals or entities considered “foreign agents” by Russia, as well as a new law equating defection with high treason. The new bill, which will come into force on 1 December, will broaden the definition of “foreign agents” to anyone deemed to have fallen “under foreign influence” or receiving support from abroad – not just foreign money.
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• Russia has begun “volunteer mobilisations” to address its soldier shortage, according to the Institute for the Study of War. In a new report, the US-based think tank said that the Kremlin has “likely ordered Russian “federal subjects” (regions) to form volunteer battalions to participate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, instead of declaring partial or full mobilisation in Russia.”
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It’s 1am in Kyiv. Here’s where things stand:

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• Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said that Russia abducted over 200,000 children since Russia’s invasion in February. Speaking at the Ukraine Accountability Conference in The Hague, Netherlands, Zelenskiy said, “It is still being established how many children Russian forces abducted and took out of Ukraine... The preliminary figure is dreadful - about two hundred thousand children.”
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• The European Union has condemned Russia’s attack on Vinnytsia on Thursday which left 23 people dead and over 100 injured. The EU’s foreign affairs chief Josep Borrell and Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarcic said that Russia must cease its “barbaric behavior,” the Kyiv Independent reports.
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• 44 localities in the Kherson region of Ukraine have been liberated, according to regional officials. “There are territories, populated localities that have been liberated. I rely exclusively on official data agreed with the General Staff. These are 44 localities,” Dmytro Butriy, acting head of the Kherson Regional Military Administration, said.
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• Ukrainian poet Lina Kostenko has been awarded the Legion of Honor order, France’s highest award, on Thursday. The French ambassador to Ukraine Etienne de Poncins hosted the award ceremony at the French embassy in Ukraine on Thursday. In response to her award, Kostenko said, “The Legion of Honor is an order of knights and it is a great honor to receive it... I renounce all titles and political jewelry, but I accept this order with great gratitude and dedicate it to our soldiers as they are our most honorable Legion.”
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• Russia has begun “volunteer mobilizations” to address its soldier shortage, according to the Institute for the Study of War. In a new report, the US-based think tank said that the Kremlin has “likely ordered Russian “federal subjects” (regions) to form volunteer battalions to participate in the Russian invasion of Ukraine, instead of declaring partial or full mobilization in Russia.”
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• Russian occupiers restarting the Azot chemical plant in Ukraine’s Luhansk region can lead to a “catastrophe,” said Luhansk governor Serhiy Haidai. According to Haidai, Russian occupiers have announced plans to resume operations at the Azot chemical plant in the Russian-occupied city of Sievierodonetsk.
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• The liberation of Crimea, Kherson and occupied territories of southern Ukraine is inevitable, says major general Dmytro Marchenko of Ukraine’s armed forces. “We need to prepare very carefully for it, we need to conduct very good intelligence, we need to prepare artillery. It will not be quick, but it is an inevitable event, and sooner or later it will happen,” he said in an interview.
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That’s it from me, Maya Yang, as I hand over the blog to my colleagues in Australia who will bring you the latest updates. Thank you.

It’s 9pm in Kyiv. Here’s where we stand:

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• At least 23 people – including three children – were killed and up to 50 others wounded after Russian missiles struck civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine. The attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred on Thursday mid-morning when the streets were full of people. Ukraine’s state emergency service says it is still searching for 46 people who are considered missing.
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• The head of Ukraine’s negotiating team, Mykhailo Podolyak, a key adviser to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said the missile attacks in Vinnytsia were an “approved military strategy” by Vladimir Putin. Russian forces were attacking “peaceful” Ukrainian cities such as Vinnytsia, Kremenchuk, Chasiv Yar and Kharkiv in order to force Ukrainians to “peace at any price”, Podolyak wrote on Twitter.
  
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• The news of the attack in Vinnytsia emerged as EU foreign and justice ministers were meeting in The Hague for a conference on alleged Russian war crimes. In opening remarks at the conference, organised by the ICC and the European Commission, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said Russia should be held responsible for its actions in Ukraine.
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• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, called the Russian attack in Vinnytsia “an open act of terrorism”. In a video address at The Hague conference, Zelenskiy urged European and International Criminal Court officials to open a “special tribunal” to investigate Russia’s invasion of his country.
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• Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has signed into law tougher measures for individuals or entities considered “foreign agents” by Russia, as well as a new law equating defection with high treason. The new bill, which will come into force on 1 December, will broaden the definition of “foreign agents” to anyone deemed to have fallen “under foreign influence” or receiving support from abroad – not just foreign money.
  
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• Russian missiles struck the city of Mykolaiv on Thursday morning, damaging two educational institutions, a transport infrastructure facility and a hotel, according to the regional governor, Vitaly Kim. In a daily update, Kim also said four people died and two were injured on Wednesday in shelling on the settlement of Pervomaisk. One person was killed overnight by shelling on Bashtanka, he added.
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• Russian forces achieved “no significant territorial advances” over the last 72 hours in Donbas, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. The latest British intelligence report said Russian forces “are in danger of losing any momentum built up following the capture of Lysychansk”.
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• Turkey has announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the UN aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by Russia. Turkey’s defence minister, Hulusi Akar, said on Wednesday that the deal would be signed when the parties meet again next week. Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Kyiv was “definitely a step closer” to reaching a deal to export grain through its Black Sea ports after talks with Russia, Turkey and the UN.
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• A top Russian official has said Ukraine must accept the “territorial realities” of the situation in order to resume peace negotiations with Moscow. Kyiv must provide a clear response to Moscow’s proposals that Ukraine accepts “non-aligned” and “non-nuclear” status, as well as recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and the status of the pro-Russian self-proclaimed “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk, in order to strike a peace deal, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Andrey Rudenko, was quoted as saying.
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• A traffic jam of more than 130 cargo ships loaded with Ukrainian grain is waiting in the Black Sea to pass into the Danube. The ships are waiting to access exit routes through the Sulina and Bystre estuary canals to reach a series of ports and terminals in Romania from where the grain can be transported on around the world.
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• Lithuania has said it will keep restrictions on Kaliningrad trade in place while it works out rules on how to resume the trade. The European Union executive said on Wednesday that Russian goods under sanctions could transit through the bloc’s territory by rail, after tensions between Moscow and EU member Lithuania escalated over trade with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
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• The world’s largest security body has expressed “grave concern” about the alleged mistreatment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in so-called filtration centres set up by Russia in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of civilians are taken to these centres in the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, before being deported to Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said.
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• The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has said Russia’s war in Ukraine poses the greatest threat to the global economy. Representatives of Putin’s regime “have no place” at a meeting of the G20 countries in Bali, she said, adding that she will continue to press allies for a price cap on Russian oil, which she said would “deny Putin revenue his war machine needs”.
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• The war in Ukraine has featured prominently in Bastille Day celebrations in France today, with thousands of French troops marching in a traditional military parade in the capital alongside allies from eastern Europe. The opening of this year’s Bastille Day parade was designed to show France’s commitment to Nato and to European allies touched most closely by the war in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.
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Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has urged European and International Criminal Court officials to open a “special tribunal” to investigate Russia’s invasion of his country.

The Ukrainian leader’s remarks came after Russian missiles struck the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, killing at least 22 children including three children. A further 52 people, including four children, have been hospitalised, Ukraine’s state emergency service said; 34 are in serious condition.

The attack came as EU officials convened in The Hague to discuss war crimes in Ukraine. Zelenskiy led a moment of silence before addressing the conference via videolink, just hours after the deadly missile strike on Vinnytsia.

Zelenskiy said:

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Existing judicial institutions cannot bring all the guilty parties to justice. Therefore, a special tribunal is needed to address the crime of Russian aggression against Ukraine.

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A tribunal would “ensure the fair and lawful punishment of those who started this series of disasters”, he said, adding:

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There must be a mandatory and principled punishment for all Russian criminals.

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The death toll from a Russian missile attack in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine has climbed to 22, including three children, according to the head of the national police in Ukraine, Ihor Klymenko.

Dozens of people are still unaccounted for, Ukraine’s state emergency service said. A further 52 people, including four children, have been hospitalised, it said. 34 are in serious condition.

Only six of the bodies have been identified so far, Klymenko said. The strikes damaged more than 50 buildings and more than 40 cars, he added.

The attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred in mid morning when the streets were full of people. A Russian submarine in the Black Sea fired Kalibr cruise missiles at the city, the deputy head of Ukraine’s presidential office, Kyrylo Tymoshenko, said.

It’s 6pm in Kyiv. Here’s where we stand:

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• At least 20 people – including three children – were killed and up to 50 others wounded after Russian missiles struck civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city of Vinnytsia, in central Ukraine. The attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred on Thursday mid-morning when the streets were full of people. Ukraine’s state emergency service says it is still searching for 46 people who are considered missing.
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• The news of the attack in Vinnytsia emerged as EU foreign and justice ministers were meeting in The Hague for a conference on alleged Russian war crimes. In opening remarks at the conference, organised by the ICC and the European Commission, Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, said Russia should be held responsible for its actions in Ukraine.
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• Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, called the Russian attack in Vinnytsia “an open act of terrorism”. In a video address at The Hague conference, Zelenskiy said: “Every day Russia destroys civilian population, kills Ukrainian children and directs rockets at civilian targets where there is nothing military. What is this if not an open act of terrorism? It is a killer state. A terrorist state.”
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• Russian missiles struck the city of Mykolaiv on Thursday morning, damaging two educational institutions, a transport infrastructure facility and a hotel, according to the regional governor, Vitaly Kim. In a daily update, Kim also said four people died and two were injured on Wednesday in shelling on the settlement of Pervomaisk. One person was killed overnight by shelling on Bashtanka, he added.
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• Russian forces achieved “no significant territorial advances” over the last 72 hours in Donbas, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. The latest British intelligence report said Russian forces “are in danger of losing any momentum built up following the capture of Lysychansk”.
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• Turkey has announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the UN aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by Russia. Turkey’s defence minister, Hulusi Akar, said on Wednesday that the deal would be signed when the parties meet again next week. Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Kyiv was “definitely a step closer” to reaching a deal to export grain through its Black Sea ports after talks with Russia, Turkey and the UN.
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• A top Russian official has said Ukraine must accept the “territorial realities” of the situation in order to resume peace negotiations with Moscow. Kyiv must provide a clear response to Moscow’s proposals that Ukraine accepts “non-aligned” and “non-nuclear” status, as well as recognise Russia’s control over Crimea and the status of the pro-Russian self-proclaimed “people’s republics” in Donetsk and Luhansk, in order to strike a peace deal, Russia’s deputy foreign minister, Andrey Rudenko, was quoted as saying.
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• A traffic jam of more than 130 cargo ships loaded with Ukrainian grain is waiting in the Black Sea to pass into the Danube. The ships are waiting to access exit routes through the Sulina and Bystre estuary canals to reach a series of ports and terminals in Romania from where the grain can be transported on around the world.
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• Lithuania has said it will keep restrictions on Kaliningrad trade in place while it works out rules on how to resume the trade. The European Union executive said on Wednesday that Russian goods under sanctions could transit through the bloc’s territory by rail, after tensions between Moscow and EU member Lithuania escalated over trade with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
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• The world’s largest security body has expressed “grave concern” about the alleged mistreatment of tens of thousands of Ukrainians in so-called filtration centres set up by Russia in Ukraine. Tens of thousands of civilians are taken to these centres in the self-proclaimed breakaway Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine, before being deported to Russia, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) said.
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• The US treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has said Russia’s war in Ukraine poses the greatest threat to the global economy. Representatives of Putin’s regime “have no place” at a meeting of the G20 countries in Bali, she said, adding that she will continue to press allies for a price cap on Russian oil, which she said would “deny Putin revenue his war machine needs”.
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• The war in Ukraine has featured prominently in Bastille Day celebrations in France today, with thousands of French troops marching in a traditional military parade in the capital alongside allies from eastern Europe. The opening of this year’s Bastille Day parade was designed to show France’s commitment to Nato and to European allies touched most closely by the war in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.
  
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Hello all, it’s Léonie Chao-Fong still with you today with all the latest news from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I’m on Twitter or you can email me.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, said 20 people were killed and many more wounded after Russian missiles hit the “ordinary, peaceful” city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine this morning.

In a video address to an international conference aimed at prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine, Zelenskiy said:

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Today in the morning, Russian missiles hit our city of Vinnytsia, an ordinary, peaceful city. Cruise missiles hit two community facilities, houses were destroyed, a medical centre was destroyed, the cars and trams were on fire.

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This is the act of Russian terror ... 20 people died as of now.

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Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential office, also said at least 20 people died in the attack.

The attack was carried out with Russian Kalibr cruise missiles launched from submarines stationed in the Black Sea, Tymoshenko added.

The death toll from a Russian missile attack in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine has climbed to 17, including two children, according to the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s office.

Dozens are wounded, it said, while residential buildings, and administrative and office premises suffered “significant damage and destruction” after Russian missiles hit the heart of the central Ukrainian city on Thursday morning.

About 90 people required medical attention and around 50 of them were in serious condition following the attack, which also destroyed a medical centre, police said.

Ukraine’s infrastructure minister, Oleksandr Kubrakov, said Kyiv is “definitely a step closer” to reaching a deal to export grain through its Black Sea ports after talks with Russia, Turkey and the UN, Reuters reports.

Wednesday’s talks in Istanbul were “substantive”, said Russia’s foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova.

Zakharova told reporters:

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It was possible to formulate some elements of a possible agreement which Russia, Ukraine and Turkey are now discussing in their capitals through their military departments.

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On Wednesday, Turkey’s defence minister, Hulusi Akar, announced a deal with Ukraine, Russia and the UN aimed at resuming Ukrainian grain exports blocked by Russia, raising prospects for an end to a standoff that has exposed millions to the risk of starvation.

The deal would be signed when the parties meet again next week and would include joint controls for checking grains in ports and Turkey ensuring the safety of Black Sea export routes for Ukrainian grain, Akar said.

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• Russian missiles have struck civilian buildings and a cultural centre in the city of Vinnytsia in central Ukraine, killing at least 12 people – reportedly including a child – and wounding up to 50 others, medics have said. The attack on Vinnytsia, far from the war’s frontlines, occurred in mid morning when the streets were full of people. It appeared to have hit a business centre, setting cars on fire and sending plumes of thick black smoke over the city. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy said of the strike, “What is this, if not an open act of terrorism?”
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• Two educational institutions, a transport infrastructure facility and a hotel have been damaged by Russian missiles in the city of Mykolaiv Thursday morning, according to regional governor Vitaly Kim. Kim says that so far it is known that one person was injured after “nine missiles from the S-300 anti-aircraft missile system were fired at the regional centre.”
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• Russian forces achieved “no significant territorial advances” over the last 72 hours in Donbas, according to the UK Ministry of Defence. The latest British intelligence report reads: “In the Donbas, Russian forces continue to conduct artillery strikes across a broad front followed by, in some areas, probing assaults by small company and platoon-sized units. However, they have achieved no significant territorial advances over the last 72 hours and are in danger of losing any momentum built up following the capture of Lysychansk.”
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• A deal to resume exporting Ukrainian grain has been announced with the establishment of a coordination and monitoring centre in Istanbul. Turkey’s defence minister Hulusi Akar said Ankara will ensure the safety of shipments in transit and the parties will jointly check grain cargoes in ports after officials from Ukraine, Russia, United Nations and Turkey met for talks in Istanbul on Wednesday. UN chief António Guterres described the talks as a “critical step forward” but said more work was needed before a deal is set to be signed next week.
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• A traffic jam of more than 130 cargo ships loaded with Ukrainian grain is waiting in the Black Sea to pass into the Danube. The ships are waiting to access exit routes through the Sulina and Bystre estuary canals to reach a series of ports and terminals in Romania from where the grain can be transported on around the world.
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• Ukraine’s top war crimes prosecutor and European judicial authorities met to coordinate investigations into atrocities during Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, warning that a failure to do so would embolden autocrats.
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• Maria Zakharova, Russia’s foreign ministry spokesperson, has given a press briefing saying Nato was waging “hybrid warfare” on Russia by providing arms to Ukraine. Zakharova also criticised Britain’s decision to bring Ukrainian service personnel to the UK for weapons training.
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• Lithuania has said it will keep restrictions on Kaliningrad trade in place while it works out rules on how to resume the trade. The European Union executive said Wedensday that sanctioned Russian goods could transit through the bloc’s territory by rail, after tensions between Moscow and EU member Lithuania escalated over trade with Russia’s Kaliningrad exclave.
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• US treasury secretary Janet Yellen said representatives of President Vladimir Putin had no place at a meeting of the Group of 20 major economies, warning that the war in Ukraine was causing a negative spillover around the world.
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That is it from me, Martin Belam, for now. I will be back later on. Léonie Chao-Fong will be with you shortly to continue coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.