Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz, speaking at the conclusion of the G7 summit in Bavaria, says the group of leaders is united in its support of Ukraine, and agree that Russia's President Putin must not win the war.

He says the group wants to keep the political and economic price of the war high for Putin and his government.

He says a Marshall plan - a plan for recovery - is needed for Ukraine.

A little more now from Dmitry Peskov, the Kremlin spokesman.

He says Russia will end its offensive in Ukraine as soon as Kyiv surrenders.

He urges Ukrainian authorities to order their troops to lay down arms.

"The Ukrainian side can stop everything before the end of today," Peskov said, according to the Agence France-Presse news agency.

"An order for the nationalist units to lay down their arms is necessary."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly said his country's troops will not surrender and that they will eventually be victorious in the war.

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After the G7 has broken up, world leaders are due in Madrid later for a summit of the Nato alliance, where they're expected to approve plans to increase the number of troops on high alert to more than 300,000.

Speaking ahead of the summit, the Kremlin describes Nato as an "aggressive bloc" created for confrontation, according to Reuters news agency.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's comments come after the G7 met earlier - and made it's statements on moves against Russian oil, gold, and the world food crisis.

In a conference call with reporters, he says Russia's invasion of Ukraine - which it calls a special military operation - is going to plan and would achieve its aims.

Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a defensive military alliance with 30 members. Members agree to help one another if they come under armed attack.

Sweden and Finland have applied to join the alliance because of the war in Ukraine.

So what have the G7 leaders come up with together?

The seven world leaders have agreed to work on a price cap for Russian oil, as part of efforts to cut the Kremlin's energy revenues

In final meetings, as the summit in Germany draws to a close, it emerges that the group are considering a ban on transporting Russian oil that is sold above a certain price.

"We invite all like-minded countries to consider joining us in our actions," they wrote in a final communique, seen by Reuters.

They also addressed the world's looming hunger crisis, calling "on all countries to avoid excessive stockpiling of food which can lead to further price increases".

Those countries - and private companies - with excess stock should "make food available without without distorting the market", the G7 jointly agreed.

They will also push for a ban on imports of Russian gold as part of efforts to tighten the sanctions squeeze on Moscow for its invasion of Ukraine, an EU official said.

In addition, the seven leaders pledged an additional $4.5 billion to combat global food insecurity, bringing the total sum committed this year to more than $14 billion.

Rising fuel prices, the fallout from the Covid pandemic and the war in Ukraine are all contributing to fears of a global famine, with the G7 once again urging Russia to lift their blockade of Ukraine's Black Sea ports and cease any "illegal appropriation" of grain.

Russia denies being responsible for the food crisis and blames the delivery disruptions on Western sanctions.

Read more on that here.

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Jonathan Beale
BBC defence correspondent

Reminiscent of Oliver Twist, defence chiefs and ministers are always asking for more. But with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine they believe they now have a compelling case for a significant increase in defence spending. (Read more on that here.)

UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has already successfully argued for more cash – after a decade of defence cuts. Two years ago the government announced the Ministry of Defence would receive an additional £16.5bn over the next four years. But with rising inflation and costs that’s still not enough to meet the defence secretary’s ambitions.

Last year’s integrated defence review saw another cut to the size of the regular Army from 82,000 to 73,000. The former head of the army, General Sir Mark Carlton-Smith, made clear that wasn’t enough before he handed over command to General Sir Patrick Sanders.

Russia’s aggression has been the catalyst for Wallace to step up the pressure. In March, he wrote to the chancellor making the case for extra investment. This has now been followed up by a letter to the prime minister.

The Ministry of Defence says it won’t comment on the contents of alleged leaked letters. But in a speech on Tuesday, Wallace is making a rare public plea for extra investment.

Ministers and defence chiefs believe the arguments for an increase in defence spending could not be stronger. But they also know, with huge pressure on government spending right across the board, they might not get what they want.

It's the tale of two summits on Tuesday, with the G7 summit in the Bavarian Alps drawing to a close, it's final decisions being issued, and the annual Nato summit starting in Madrid.

As world leaders look to the Spanish capital, here's a quick recap on who is attending the Madrid summit, who's in the G7 and what the two are for.

What is the G7?

• The G7 are the seven leaders of the world's seven largest industrialised economies: Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, UK and US
• Russia joined in 1998, creating the G8, but was excluded in 2014 for its annexation of Crimea.
• China has never been a member, despite its large economy because it's relatively low level of wealth per person means it's not seen as an advanced economy in the same way
• G7 ministers and officials hold meetings throughout the year where they discuss global events. Germany currently holds the presidency
• The EU is not a member of the G7 but attends the annual summit.

What is Nato?

• Nato - the North Atlantic Treaty Organization - is a defensive military alliance.
• There are currently 30 members, with two new applicants, Finland and Norway, awaiting membership.
• Formed in 1949 by 12 countries, including the US, UK, Canada and France, Nato was orginally intended to counter Russian expansion in Europe after World War Two.
• The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 saw a rapid expansion of the alliance, with a swathe of eastern European nations becoming Nato members since 1997
• Members must be democracies, treat minorities fairly and commit to resolving conflicts peacefully, external. Members must also agree to spend 2% of their GDP on defence
• Nato's Article 5 - first invoked after 9/11 - states 'an attack on one [member] is an attack on all, and all should respond.'

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Russia's defence ministry, in its first comments on Monday's attack on a busy shopping centre in the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, says it did carry out the strike but the deadly fire was caused by the detonation of ammunition stored there.

Russia has repeatedly said that it does not target civilians, often claiming lethal attacks are on legitimate military targets, or even strikes were carried out by Ukrainian forces themselves.

The Russian defence ministry said in a Telegram post its air forces attacked hangars containing weapons from the US and European countries.

"The detonation of ammunition for western weapons caused a fire in a nearby non-functioning shopping centre," the ministry said.

Ukraine says there were hundreds of people in the shopping centre at the time of the strike and it was directly hit. At least 18 people are known to have been killed and more are missing, officials say.

Eyewitness in Kremenchuk told the BBC of their shock at experiencing a missile strike in the centre of their city, which is not close to the front line.

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At least 18 people have been killed following the missile strike on the Amstor shopping centre in Kremenchuk, central Ukraine.

That figure has not been updated again this morning, but officials have now announced the number of civilians they believe are missing and in hospital.

Of the estimated 1,000 people President Zelensky says were inside the mall at the time of the attack, at least 36 are believed to be missing and 25 are in hospital, Reuters quotes Dmytro Lunin, the governor of nearby Poltava, as saying.

Authorities estimate there could have been anywhere between 200 and 1,000 people inside the shopping centre when it was targeted. Many managed to flee to a nearby bomb shelter but others remain trapped in the building, reports suggest.

Rescue workers are continuing to search the rubble.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tells Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg Ukraine needs missile defence systems to prevent Russian attacks.

Zelensky said on Twitter: "Had a phone conversation with NATO Secretary General @jensstoltenberg. Coordinated positions on the eve of the #NATOSummit in Madrid. Stressed the importance of a powerful missile defense system for Ukraine to prevent Russian terrorist attacks."

Nato leaders, meeting in Madrid for a summit later today, are expected to approve plans to greatly expand the number of troops on high alert to more than 300,000.

The alliance's secretary general called the move the biggest overhaul of collective defence since the Cold War.

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As we've reported, today is the last day of the summit of the world's richest nations, known as the G7 - which is made up of the US, the UK, France, Germany, Japan, Canada and Italy.

The Ukraine war has been top of the agenda of the summit, which is being held in Germany. Western leaders have been attempting to present a united front as the grinding conflict continues to exacerbate a global cost of living and food crisis.

On Monday, the leaders condemned Russia's missile strike on the shopping centre in Kremenchuk, saying in a joint statement: "Indiscriminate attacks on innocent civilians constitute a war crime."

The leaders have promised to support Ukraine "for as long as it takes" and have pledged to impose new sanctions on Moscow to limit its ability to import technologies for its arms industry.

On Tuesday, they issued a statement saying they intended to spend an extra $4.5bn to help protect people suffering hunger and malnutrition as the result of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. They also want to boost UN efforts to secure a safe maritime corridor through the Black Sea.

Read more on the G7 from our Europe editor Katya Adler.

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BBC Monitoring

Pro-Russian accounts and at least one diplomat have been pushing unfounded, contradictory claims about the shopping centre attack.

Many of the stories echo disinformation promoted about previous attacks, on a maternity hospital in Mariupol and on civilians in Bucha.

While some channels on Telegram claimed – without evidence – that the Ukrainian army itself had carried out the attack ahead of this week’s Nato summit in Madrid, others suggested it was somehow "faked" or "staged".

Among those promoting the claims online was Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy, who described the Kremenchuk attack as “a new Bucha-style Ukrainian provocation”.

Polyanskiy, who did not cite any evidence, was referencing debunked claims that Ukrainian forces staged civilian deaths north of Kyiv.

Another theory circulated by pro-Russian accounts online claim there was no missile strike and the fire at the shopping centre was caused by an explosion at a nearby plant.

These claims, however, have been clearly contradicted by eyewitness accounts and reporting, including from BBC journalists at the scene.

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Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kremenchuk

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We're hearing more in the aftermath of the Kremenchuk attack.

Oksana, director at the hospital here in the city, tells us that a number of medics who were in other places and on their holidays have come back to do what they can.

"Doctors from other hospitals have offered their help and civilians came to donate blood," she says.

"It was very sad to see people who came looking for their close ones, trying to find their names in the list of injured, hoping that they are not there - in the building.

"We are all people - when we saw the explosion, we felt the adrenaline, the fear. But later, we all just came here and started working, with no fear," she says.

If you're just joining us, here is a look ahead at what is happening in and around Ukraine on Tuesday:

• Emergency services continue to search the rubble after a Russian missile strike hit a busy shopping centre in the city of Kremenchuk on Monday
• So far 18 civilians have been confirmed dead, 25 are in hospital and 36 are missing, Reuters reports
• Leaders of the G7, whose summit in Bavaria concludes today, have condemned the attack on Kremenchuk, calling it a war crime
• As the G7 summit ends, western leaders will gather for Nato's annual meeting in Madrid, with the alliance set to formally agree a major boost to the number of troops in Nato's rapid response force
• It comes as the UK's new army head, General Sir Patrick Sanders, likens Putin's "brutal aggression" in Ukraine to the build up to World War Two and says the British army must be ready to fight
• Meanwhile, Russia's President Putin is heading to Tajikistan, his first overseas visit since the invasion of Ukraine began in February.

French President Emmanuel Macron is among the world leaders who have condemned Russia's missile strike on the shopping centre in central Ukraine, describing it as an "abomination".

In a tweet where he posted a video of the aftermath of the attack in Kremenchuk, Macron said the Russian people must "see the truth".

For most Russians, television remains the main source of news, which is firmly controlled by the Kremlin and pumps out war propaganda.

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Meanwhile, UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is urging the prime minister to increase spending on Britain's armed forces in light of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

He already successfully pushed for higher spending in 2020, but will say in a speech later that the threat has now changed.

The UK currently spends around 2% of its GDP on defence, matching the target Nato sets for its members.

But Wallace has reportedly asked the PM to increase that to 2.5% by 2028.

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Russia's armed forces are increasingly hollowed out and are operating at a level of degraded combat effectiveness which is probably unsustainable in the long term, says the UK's Ministry of Defence.

The MoD, in its daily intelligence briefing on the situation in Ukraine, external, says Ukrainian forces continue to disrupt Russian command and control with successful strikes deep behind Russian lines in the contested area around the city of Lysychansk.

The MoD says Russia launched "unusually intense waves of strikes" across Ukraine using long-range missiles over the past few days.

The weapons used were highly likely to have included the Soviet-era AS-4 Kitchen and more modern AS-23a Kodiak missiles, fired into Ukraine from both Belarusian and Russian airspace, the MoD says.

These weapons were designed to take on targets of strategic importance, but Russia continues to use them in large numbers for tactical advantage, the British intelligence analysts say.

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An adviser to Ukraine's President Zelensky has been speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning, describing yesterday's attack on the shopping centre as a "war crime".

What happened in the city of Kremenchuk is "just another sign that Russia... doesn’t care about what the civilised world thinks or plans to do. And, obviously, that it doesn’t want to play by the rules," Alexander Rodnyansky says.

Kremenchuk, in central Ukraine, sits 80 miles outside of Russian-occupied territory, and Rodnyansky claims President Vladimir Putin previously warned far-reaching attacks like this one would happen if Russia thought "the West was doing too much to help Ukraine defend itself".

And on the wider conflict - particularly the fall of Severodonetsk in the east over the weekend - he adds that Russia is still progressing at "just 10km per month, maybe even less".

"Quantitively, we're outgunned but qualitatively, we're still much stronger than they are," he insists.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kremenchuk

We’re here at a hospital in Kremenchuk where a number of people injured in the attack are being treated.

Maksym Musienko was working in the shopping centre at the time of the strike. He has concussion, a shrapnel wound and multiple scratches.

"I don’t remember anything. I just remember being in the hospital," he tells us.

He adds: "I remember we were working and there was a lot of people. There were 20-30 personnel in the shop, and around 100 buyers. People were buying air conditioners.

"The shopping centre is not a place of danger for the Russians."

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At least 18 people are now confirmed dead following the strike on a shopping centre in Kremenchuck.

Kremenchuk has been used to strikes targeting the city's big oil refinery - but not a shopping centre in the afternoon, military expert Justin Crump tells the BBC.

The threat to many Ukrainian cities remains the long-range weapons systems that Russia has, such as air-launched cruise missiles and some ballistic missiles, he says. Although those have generally been targeting military targets, this is one of the exceptions.

Yesterday’s strike has got people thinking about how long this will go on for and what Putin is trying to achieve with this, Crump says.

And that’s almost certainly what the Russians are trying to do with this sort of offensive, he adds - keep Ukraine and the West off balance, particularly this week with the G7 meeting and the Nato summit.

Describing the attack as a “ghastly act”, he says there’s no military justification whatsoever for it.

It sends a message that this is still a dangerous conflict, Crump says, and that civilians are very much threatened despite fighting being relocated to the eastern Donbas region.