Moscow accused of targeting civilians with missile attacks – as it happened

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Russian and pro-Russian Luhansk People's Republic separatist forces claim to have entered the outskirts of Siversk in Ukraine's Donbas, the UK Ministry of Defence has said.

Acknowledging that reports have not corroborated, the ministry said Russian forces have been slowly advancing westwards and probing assaults towards Siversk from Lysychansk to open a pathway onward to Sloviansk and Kramatorsk.

Bakhmut is likely to be the next objective, once Siversk is secured," the report read.

The simple truth is that, as we speak, children, women and men, the young and the old, are living in terror."