War between Ukraine and Russia live: Two dead in Putin’s “double-tap” missile attack on train station near Kharkiv

Ukrainian forces can now use British missiles for defensive strikes against targets on Russian territory, Keir Starmer told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the NATO summit.

His government’s new defence secretary, John Healey, announced the move but gave no details of the “operational arrangements”. Britain, he said, “will do everything in our power to help Ukraine in its fight to repel Putin’s invasion”.

“We provide them with weapons for self-defence wherever possible and, as we do for ourselves and any other nation in conflict, we require, as a matter of international law, that the war be fought within the rules of the Geneva Convention,” Healey told Sky News yesterday.

Russia fired two Iskander-M ballistic missiles and six Shahed drones in an attack on Ukraine in the early hours of this morning, the Ukrainian Air Force said.

One person was injured in the rocket attack on the northeastern region of Sumy, regional authorities said.

Ukrainian air defense said it shot down all six drones launched by Russia over four Ukrainian regions.

The governor of the Mykolaiv region said that debris from a drone in an open area had caused a fire that had since been extinguished. There were no casualties, he said.

Authorities in the western regions of Lviv, Ivano-Frankivsk and Khmelnytskyi reported no casualties or damage to civilian infrastructure.

The National Cancer Institute in Kyiv was busier than usual after a Russian missile hit Ukraine’s largest children’s hospital this week, forcing dozens of young cancer patients to be evacuated.

The heaviest Russian bombardment of the Ukrainian capital in four months left the Ochmatdyt children’s hospital badly damaged on Monday, leaving families in fear and their children, who already suffer from life-threatening illnesses, seriously injured.

Some families are now faced with the dilemma of where to continue their children’s treatment.

Oksana Halak only learned about her two-year-old son Dmytro’s diagnosis of acute lymphocytic leukemia at the beginning of June. She immediately decided to have him treated in Okhmatdyt, “because it is one of the best hospitals in Europe.”

She and Dmytro were at the hospital for treatment when sirens sounded across the city. They couldn’t run to the shelter because the little boy was hooked up to an IV. “It’s extremely important not to interrupt these IVs,” Halak said.

Britain told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that Ukraine could use missiles from Britain to attack targets in Russia.

British Defense Secretary John Healey on Wednesday gave the green light for Kyiv to use Storm Shadow missiles for defensive strikes on Russian territory.

New Defence Secretary John Healey signalled the move but refused to commit to any “operational arrangements”. He told Sky News that Britain would “do everything in its power to support Ukraine in its fight to repel Putin’s invasion”.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has classified the Moscow Times as an “undesirable” organization. This means that Russians are prohibited from cooperating with the newspaper or having any ties to it.

“The media’s work is aimed at discrediting the decisions of the leadership of the Russian Federation in both foreign and domestic policy,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

Russia introduced its list of “undesirable” organizations in 2015 to crack down on foreign non-governmental organizations and ban Russians from cooperating with them or donating to them.

Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called on the British government to help bring Vladimir Putin to justice for war crimes related to his invasion of Ukraine.

Brown, 73, said it was “now time to do something about Putin” and called on the new Labour government to help bring the Russian leadership to justice.

“I believe that the new British government, whose Prime Minister and Foreign Secretary have already supported the call to action against the crime of aggression, will increase the urgency of bringing the Russian leadership to justice for all the harm it has caused,” Brown wrote in The guard.

“It will send the message that there is no hiding from prosecution for aggressors – and no immunity for war criminals, whether they are presidents or not. Anger and outrage are not enough. Now is the time to take action against Putin.”