Ukraine-Russia war live: Putin’s troops advancing along ‘entire front line’, Kyiv military warns

Kyiv’s war with Russia must end with Ukraine securing its borders and all other options “won’t be considered”, Ukraine’s top general said.

When asked why he hopes that Ukraine can soon end the conflict, Oleksandr Syrskyi told German TV: “This is based on the fact that we must end it reaching our borders.

“This is the first thing. Because other options are not considered. Because we simply have no other way out. And this means that everyone, the whole society must rally around the common cause - victory.”

US president Joe Biden has slammed Donald Trump as “un-American” for his remarks on Russia’s war in Ukraine and Nato.

He said Mr Trump’s comments have raised the stakes of the nearly two-year-old war in Ukraine, calling them a “dangerous and shocking and un-American signal to the world” as well as “an invitation to Putin to invade some of our allies”.

The president accused Mr Trump, the likely Republican nominee against whom he’ll run for re-election this year, of having “bowed down to a Russian dictator,” something he said no other American president had ever done.

He also noted that his twice-impeached predecessor’s remarks indicated that Mr Trump, despite having spent four years in the White House as President of the United States, does not understand what Nato is or how the half-century-old alliance works.

Ukraine will need £7bn over 10 years for its tourism sector to recover, the United Nations’ cultural agency said on Tuesday, adding that the two-year war had so far cost the country over £15bn in tourism revenue.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022 triggered the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two, with no sign of an end to the war in sight.

“The damage continues to increase and the needs for the sector’s recovery continue to grow,” Krista Pikkat, director of culture and emergencies at Unesco, told reporters, adding that the lost revenue to the capital Kyiv alone was £8bn.

In an assessment ahead of the war’s two year anniversary, the Unesco estimated the cost of damage to cultural property at about £2bn, up 40 per cent from 2023.

It said 340 buildings had been damaged, including museums, monuments, libraries and religious sites.