Ukrainian troops secure foothold in south, says senior official – as it happened

Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff says Ukraine's forces established on Dnipro's east bank in Kherson region. This live blog is closed

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Here are some of images from the wires of leaders at a meeting of EU foreign and defence ministers at the European Council in Brussels today.

The head of Russia's state nuclear energy company, Rosatom, said on Tuesday that it had agreed a timetable for the construction of two new reactors at the Paks-2 nuclear plant in Hungary, Reuters reports.