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As we've been reporting, the war in Ukraine has been high on the agenda as leaders of some of the world's most powerful nations meet in Germany.

The G7 summit is being dominated by discussions over Russia's invasion and how Ukraine can be supported. Leaders are expected to promise further military support for Kyiv and impose more sanctions on Moscow

• The meeting's host, Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said unity over Ukraine was the G7's clear message to Russian President Vladimir Putin
• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appealed for the West to continue to support Ukraine, and be honest about the implications that support may have on their own nations
• US President Joe Biden has appealed for unity - in both the G7 and Nato - in the face of Russia's invasion, saying Putin has been banking on the West fracturing - but it hasn't

• Johnson and French President Emmanuel Macron agree the conflict in Ukraine is at a critical moment, with an "opportunity to turn the tide in the war", Downing Street says
• The G7 nations "share the same goals - to cut the oxygen from Russia's war machine, while taking care of our economies", says Charles Michel, president of the European Council
• The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow's ability to fund the war, and Biden suggested the G7's other members - France, Germany and Italy - would follow suit

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The UK, US, Canada and Japan will ban imports of Russian gold in an effort to hit Moscow's ability to fund the war in Ukraine.

The UK says the measure will "strike at the heart of Putin's war machine".

Gold exports were worth £12.6bn ($15.4bn) to Russia in 2021, and the UK says their importance has increased since the invasion as oligarchs rush to buy bullion to avoid sanctions.

It comes as the G7 group of the world's richest nations are meeting in Germany.

More from the Kyiv mayor now.

Describing Russian troops as "barbarians", Vitaliy Klitschko says the "enemy wants to intimidate us".

"Stay alert, follow the basic rules which may help save lives," he urges city residents.

He says people should immediately go to shelters when they hear air siren alerts.

Klitschko also warns against posting any footage or photos immediately after explosions, asking instead to wait for "official information" from the authorities.

"Together and united we'll persevere and win!" the mayor adds.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

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We’re now getting more updates on today’s missile strike in Kyiv.

One person has died, and six people are now said to be injured, according to Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko.

Four people were hospitalised including a seven year-old girl. Two others are being treated on an outpatient basis.

The search for people inside the building is continuing, the mayor says.

Officials say the fire at the building has since been put out.

Mark Savage
Music correspondent, reporting from Glastonbury

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Paul McCartney showed his solidarity with Ukraine by waving the country's flag during the encore of his epic Glastonbury set on Saturday night.

The Beatles legend earned a huge cheer as he stood under the flag's blue and yellow stripes, but for Ukrainian musicians at the festival, it was more than just a gesture.

"For soldiers, for people in Ukraine and around the world, when your big stars support you and understand you, it shows you have truth on your side," says Marko Galanevych of the folk quartet DhakaBrakha.

"It gives us inspiration to stand."

Ukrainian Eurovision winners, Kalush Orchestra, also praised the star for his support.

"A lot of people follow and listen to their idols, so superstars like him expressing their support for Ukraine really helps us to promote our cause," says frontman Olek Psiuk.

Both bands performed at the festival this weekend, helping spread their message of resistance - and hopefully winning new fans along the way.

Read more from Mark on how Ukraine left its mark on Glastonbury here.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

Kyiv Mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has warned people in the city to remain vigilant after today's strike on the city.

As we reported earlier, one person has been killed and five injured after a strike on an apartment block in the capital.

Klitschko told people to follow basic safety rules and to go to a shelter during an air raid siren warning.

Russia wants to "sow panic and despair", he wrote on Telegram.

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Children are being caused "unimaginable" physical and emotional harm by the war in Ukraine, Save the Children says, urging world leaders to act.

The international children's charity refers to the news of a child being hurt in the destroyed residential block in Kyiv and reports of a nearby kindergarten being hit in another blast.

“Four months since the escalation of conflict started, children and families in Ukraine are still waking up to aerial bombardments," Pete Walsh, country director for Save the Children in Ukraine, says.

"Children should wake up on a Sunday morning looking forward to spending the day with their families or playing with their friends.

"It is all the more worrying to see this in Kyiv, which has been a place of relative calm for several weeks.

"The immense physical and emotional harm this war is having on children is unimaginable. The number of civilian casualties has surpassed 10,000, including more than 800 children.

"As the G7 gathers in Germany today, this should be a wake-up call to world leaders not to look away. There is still no safe place for children in Ukraine, and leaders must do everything they can to end this conflict."

Chris Partridge
BBC News

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If Russia is running low on precision-guided missiles, there appears to be little evidence over recent days.

Today's strikes on the capital Kyiv are said to have been launched from Tupolev bombers over the Caspian Sea – some 900 miles away.

Ukrainian Air Force spokesman Yuri Ignat says they likely used Kh-101 cruise missiles, which have reported ranges of several thousand miles.

Yesterday, Ukrainian intelligence said Russia was also launching air strikes from inside neighbouring Belarus, a key ally of Moscow.

In those attacks, older Kh-22 cruise missiles are reported to have struck targets around the Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions.

But the more missiles are fired, the fewer remain in stock. The difficulty for Russia is getting hold of the key components to replenish those stocks – some of which were previously made in Ukraine itself.

The Ukrainian foreign minister has tweeted a picture of the young girl carried out of the rubble of the destroyed apartment block in Kyiv, this morning, while criticising Russia's "sick imperialism".

"This seven-year-old Ukrainian kid was sleeping peacefully in Kyiv until a Russian cruise missile blasted her home," Dmytro Kuleba writes, external.

"Many more around Ukraine are under strikes.

"G7 summit must respond with more sanctions on Russia and more heavy arms for Ukraine. Russia’s sick imperialism must be defeated."

Joe Inwood
Reporting from Kyiv

The missile strike on a residential building in Kyiv has killed one person and injured five more, according to the head of Ukraine’s national police.

A seven-year-old child was among those taken to hospital. The attack caused a fire in a nine-storey apartment building, with a partial collapse of the seventh, eighth and ninth floors.

Nearly 70 firefighters arrived at the scene, using "19 units of fire equipment".

The Ukrainian National Guard is claiming at least 14 missiles were launched at the capital this morning, in the most sustained barrage Kyiv has experienced in months.

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This morning's attack on a residential building in Kyiv is one of several Russia has launched on Ukraine today.

Moscow says its forces have carried out strikes against three military training centres in northern and western Ukraine, including one near the Polish border.

"High-precision weapons of Russia's aerospace forces and Kalibr missiles" were used, the Russian defence ministry says in a statement.

Among the targets was a military training centre for Ukrainian forces in the Starychi district of the Lviv region, about 30km (19 miles) from the border with Nato member Poland - a few days before a Nato summit in Madrid.

There have also been further explosions in Kyiv - a local official said earlier there had been at least six blasts in the Kyiv region - and in the central city of Cherkasy, and missile strikes in the Kharkiv region.

Reuters reports there's a large blast crater by a playground in a kindergarten about 400m away from the apartment block hit in the capital.

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Ukraine has also commented on the attacks. "More than 50 missiles of various types were fired - air, sea and ground-based," Ukraine's air force command says, adding it is difficult to intercept Russian missiles such as the Iskander.

Earlier Kyiv regional military administration Oleksiy Kuleba said one missile had been shot down and landed on a village not far from the capital.

The attacks come on the opening day of the G7 summit and ahead of the Nato meeting and Kyiv mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has called them an attempt to intimidate Ukrainians.

"Before the Nato summit, they attack," he says. "It's maybe symbolic, symbolic aggression during this day."

This footage from the Ukrainian emergency services shows the devastation caused by the Russian missile strike on an apartment block in Kyiv this morning.

Kyiv's mayor Vitali Klitchko says it was an attempt to intimidate his country ahead of the meeting of the G7 countries, which President Volodymyr Zelensky has been invited to speak to by video-link.

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Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron agree the conflict in Ukraine is at a critical moment, with an "opportunity to turn the tide in the war", Downing Street says.

In a summary of a meeting between the UK PM and French president at the G7 summit, No 10 says they both "stressed the need to support Ukraine to strengthen their hand in both the war and any future negotiations".

“President Macron praised the prime minister's ongoing military support to Ukraine and the leaders agreed to step up this work. The prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity.

"The leaders agreed to continue and enhance the close work between the UK and France on areas including defence and security."

Macron's office says the talks were good, and that Johnson showed enthusiasm for joining a "European political community" – an initiative suggested by the French leader for a decision-making structure that would involve EU nations and European countries that are not members.

Chris Mason
Political editor

The UK prime minister arrived here from Kigali in Rwanda overnight.

This is the second of three summits in a row for Boris Johnson: he will head to the gathering of the defence alliance Nato in Madrid in a few days.

Johnson has met the French President Emmanuel Macron here this morning.

And immediately we see the central tension at the heart of the West in how it handles the war in Ukraine.

We are now beyond the immediate horror for many of the initial invasion, and so the question arises about how long the conflict will go on, and the long term appetite countries have to support President Zelensky and his country.

Downing Street tell us "the prime minister stressed any attempt to settle the conflict now will only cause enduring instability and give Putin licence to manipulate both sovereign countries and international markets in perpetuity."

And therein lies the crux of the argument: is the West in it for the long term?

Boris Johnson insists it must be, while acknowledging the costs of this - and knowing that there is "fatigue" as he puts it, from some politicians and their people.

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The world's richest nations are focusing on how to keep the coalition of support for Ukraine together at a time when "realistically there is going to be fatigue in populations and politicians", Boris Johnson says.

Speaking at the G7 summit, the UK PM says "the most incredible thing about the way the West has responded to the invasion of Ukraine by Putin has been the unity".

In order to protect unity, leaders have to be "really honest" about the implications of what's going on – and the impact on costs of "energy or food or whatever", Johnson says, quoted by Reuters.

This is something worth "standing up for together" – the principle that a free country like Ukraine should not be violently invaded and have it's boundaries changed by force, he says.

"And the consequences of that, of what's happening, for the world are tough.

"But the price of backing down, the price of allowing Putin to succeed... would be far, far higher."

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

According to a spokesperson for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the missiles that struck the apartment block earlier today in Kyiv were fired from the Caspian Sea.

It is the first such attack on the city in weeks and comes as G7 leaders meet in Germany.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

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One woman, who owns an apartment in the block, says her home is completely destroyed.

She is currently overseas but wrote on Facebook: “We don’t have our apartment anymore. We don’t have our kitchen, our beds.”

She says her family had spent a year and a half building the apartment and it was finished just before the Russian invasion.

“I could write a novel about the effort we put into our own home but there is no chance and there’s no home anymore,” she says.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

Earlier, I was at the site of a missile strike in the city. While we were there, one woman was pulled from the rubble and transferred to hospital.

According to officials, she had a Russian passport.

It's now been confirmed that 25 people were evacuated from the building and four people are injured.

The water pipe line in the backyard of a kindergarten was also damaged, cutting off water supplies to the building.

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US President Joe Biden has said the West must stay united against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

"We have to stay together," Biden told Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a meeting a little earlier, before the G7 summit got going.

"Putin has been counting on it from the beginning, that somehow Nato would, and the G7 would splinter and... but we haven't, and we're not going to.

"So, we can't let this aggression take the form it has and get away with it."

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The G7 nations "share the same goals - to cut the oxygen from Russia's war machine, while taking care of our economies", says Charles Michel, president of the European Council.

Speaking at the start of the G7 summit in Bavaria, Michel says "Russia's war has put the world at risk", saying it has affected food and fuel supplies, prices and security.

He says the G7 and EU have "unwavering unity" in their support for Ukraine.

The EU will continue to provide financial, humanitarian and political support to Ukraine, Michel says, but is committed to providing more - and supporting Ukraine's rebuilding.

He says the war is also shaping the European Union, with candidacy status being given to Ukraine and Moldova and other nations hoping to follow.

The war means the world has changed since last year's G7 summit in Cornwall, Michel says, adding "the world is watching - let's take the right decisions and defend international law".