LIVE | IAEA team on its way from Kiev to Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, Nord Stream pipeline closed again

The defense ministers of the EU member states have agreed to set up an ‘assistance mission’ to Ukraine. That has been announced by foreign chief Josep Borrell, according to the Reuters news agency. And in almost all of the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson occupied by Russian forces, there is heavy fighting. Keep up to date with developments in Ukraine via our live blog below.

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