Here's a little more from Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

He describes the Madrid summit as "transformative", telling a news conference that Nato members will "invest more together".

Stoltenberg says they have decided a trajectory, of "considerable, significant increase" in Nato's common budget, although he doesn't give a figure for the percentage increase when asked by a reporter.

The funding will be used to invest more in pre-positioning equipment, hardware and infrastructure and more military exercises, he says.

It'll be reviewed in the alliance's yearly budget, he says.

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We're hearing from Boris Johnson, who is speaking at the end of the Nato summit in Madrid.

The prime minister has said British spending is "transforming Ukraine's defences" with the UK is set to provide an additional £1bn in military aid.

We'll bring you the key points of Johnson's speech here.

Finland and Sweden will formally sign their accession protocols to join Nato on Tuesday, Stoltenberg says.

But he stresses the decision for them to join the 30-country military alliance has already been taken.

The accession protocol must then be ratified by all 30 parliaments to allow both countries to become part of Nato.

Asked whether the alliance will struggle to keep unity with so many different members, he says: "You will always find differences, and for me that's not a weakness... we are democratic nations."

And he says it's important that members can "unite around core issues".

Read more: Sweden and Finland's journey from neutral to Nato

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Nato's secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, says Nato allies spent time during the Madrid summit to discuss efforts to mitigate the growing food crisis caused by the war in Ukraine.

He says the alliance is working on "getting grain out of Ukraine by land and sea".

Stoltenberg warns that Moscow and Beijing are using economic leverage and coercion to destabilise.

He says Nato is rising to the challenge with resolve, to "preserve peace".

Stoltenberg adds that Putin should redraw his forces and stop attacking a democratic state.

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In these final hours of the Nato summit in Madrid, the secretary general of the military alliance, Jens Stoltenberg, is addressing reporters.

He says "far-reaching" decisions have been made during the meeting of Nato leaders, with agreement to invite Finland and Sweden to join the alliance.

The impact of the war-induced food crisis across the world is "severe", he says, with many countries depending on Ukraine for wheat imports.

Russia continues to seek political, military and economic gain, he adds.

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We'll soon be hearing from Nato's general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg.

Stoltenberg's news conference comes after the second and final day of the Madrid Nato summit.

Ukraine has been at the top of the agenda. We'll be bringing you the key lines as we get them.

The news conference comes after Nato member Turkey agreed to support Sweden and Finland's application for membership of the alliance.

Chris Partridge
BBC News

Russia’s claim to have retreated from Snake Island as a “goodwill gesture” will be seen by many as highly surprising. It’s clearly come under heavy bombardment from Ukraine’s missiles and artillery.

Satellite imagery from yesterday showed plumes of smoke, indicating some sort of assault, which likely continued afterwards.

Snake Island has come under frequent attack by Ukraine, wanting to destroy Russian surface-to-air missile (SAM) systems installed there.

Those SAMs represented a constant threat to Ukrainian forces in the south west of the country - particularly aircraft.

Russian vessels taking military equipment to the island have often been targeted, external by Bayraktar TB2 unmanned aerial vehicles, launching laser-guided missiles.

Ukraine will now likely try to insert its own missile defences on Snake Island, creating an extra buffer to the Russian Black Sea Fleet and aircraft.

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Ex-Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has described Vladimir Putin as a "first-class person" who is doing something he believes is right for Russia.

The two men have known each other for several years, and reportedly became friends after Russia was first given the opportunity to host an F1 Grand Prix in 2014.

Asked on ITV's Good Morning Britain if he still regards Putin as a friend, Ecclestone says: "I'd still take a bullet for him."

The 91-year-old, who was chief executive of F1 until 2017, went on to say he thought the war could have been avoided if Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had taken different actions, commenting on how Zelensky used to be a comedian.

"I think he seems as if he wants to continue that profession," Ecclestone says, "because I think if he'd have thought about things, he would have definitely made a big enough effort to speak to Mr Putin, who is a sensible person and would have listened to him, and could have probably done something about it."

Ecclestone says he doesn't believe it was Putin's intention to start a war that has led to the deaths of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian people, saying: "I'm absolutely sure he now wishes he hadn't started this whole business, but didn't start as a war."

He also says Lewis Hamilton should have "brushed aside" racist comments from 1980s F1 world champion Nelson Piquet.

A statement from F1 said: "The comments made by Bernie Ecclestone are his personal views and are in very stark contrast to the position of the modern values of our sport."

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Ukrainian troops have been receiving training in the UK on how to use weapons the UK has been providing.

The troops are being trained by forces from the UK and New Zealand on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, in how to operate the M270 multiple-launch rocket system and the L119 howitzer.

British troops have spent three weeks training Ukrainians in how to use the M270, while the New Zealanders have been training them on the L119 light guns.

Some Ukrainian troops have already been in the UK to learn how to use and maintain the armoured vehicles the UK has donated, so these are not the first forces from the nation to be trained in the UK, but it is the first time they have been trained in using artillery systems.

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We're getting some more analysis on Ukraine's recapture of Snake Island now.

The island has always been a difficult place for Russia to hold, says Justin Bronk from the Royal United Services Institute defence think tank.

He says Ukraine has been conducting more technically innovative attacks with fast jets, successfully destroying Russian systems on the island.

In turn, he says, Russia has been forced to continually ship in new systems which have been attacked on the way in.

"With a lack of cover and given how small Snake Island is in terms of ability to conceal things, it is just an untenable military position for them to try and hold now," he says.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces, has thanked "everyone who is helping to defend Ukrainian land" following the news that Russia has withdrawn from Snake Island.

He says Russian forces were "unable to withstand" Ukrainian artillery, missiles and air strikes on the island.

"Thank you to the defenders of Odesa, who took maximum measures to liberate a strategically important part of our territory," he says.

He also thanks Ukraine's foreign partners for "providing the means of defeat".

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Joe Inwood
Ukraine correspondent, in Kyiv

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It is a crucial battle, both strategically and symbolically.

Snake Island sits less than 40km off Ukraine’s coast and has been keenly contested ever since the start of Russia’s invasion.

On the very first day, the island’s defenders became national heroes for telling the Black Sea Flagship the Moskva to go away, in somewhat more colourful terms.

Ever since then both sides have fought over the small grass-covered island, with regular missile strikes.

Despite losses, it seemed Russia had consolidated its grip on Snake Island; artillery, missiles and men had all been deployed and seemed to be holding on.

But today, Ukraine's Operational Command South claimed a major victory.

“During the night, as a result of another successful stage of the military operation with strikes by our missile and artillery, the opponent hurriedly evacuated the remains of the garrison (of Snake Island) with two speed boats… Currently, it is covered in fire and explosions.”

Now, Russia has admitted to withdrawing from Snake Island. Their version of events is rather different, saying they have pulled out “as a goodwill gesture” to help “the UN to establish a humanitarian corridor for transporting agricultural products from Ukraine".

Given the photos that have emerged of the island’s distinctive outline enveloped in smoke, that explanation will strike many as a little far-fetched.

Whatever the truth of the matter, retaking Snake Island will be a major victory for Ukraine.

If it brings closer the day when the Black Sea is once again safe for food exports, it is a victory that could have global significance.

Sophie Williams
Reporting from Kyiv

We've just spoken to Anatoly Budyashevskyi, press officer for ground forces in the southern part of Ukraine, who confirmed to the BBC that Snake Island is now under Ukrainian control.

His command unit also just confirmed the news on Facebook, writing that a military operation has taken place on the island using rocket and artillery units.

We've got more now from the Russian Ministry of Defence on its withdrawal from Snake Island.

The ministry says the move shows the global community "the Russian Federation is not hampering the UN's efforts to organise a humanitarian corridor to ship farming produce out of Ukraine".

It says the decision will mean Kyiv can no longer suggest that any food crisis and inability to export grain is "due to Russia's total control of the northwestern part of the Black Sea".

"Now it is up to the Ukrainian side that is still not clearing the Black Sea coastline, including the harbour waters," the ministry says.

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From the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Snake Island was given a vital and almost mythical status in the war.

An unremarkable, rocky outcrop in the Black Sea, it was previously seized by Russia. Now Ukraine has regained control of it.

Snake or Zmiinyi Island is a fraction of a square kilometre and there are no snakes to speak of, but its fate is a major element of the war.

"If Russian troops succeed in occupying Snake Island and set up their long-range air-defence systems, they will control the sea, land and air in the north-west part of the Black Sea and in the south of Ukraine," Ukrainian military expert Oleh Zhdanov told the BBC back in May.

Historically, Snake Island was Romanian territory until it was ceded in 1948 to the Soviet Union, which used it as a radar base.

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Ukrainian officials have also confirmed that Russian forces have withdrawn from Snake Island, a strategic outpost in the Black Sea.

The head of President Zelensky's office, Andriy Yermak, said: "KABOOM! No Russian troops on the Snake Island anymore.

"Our armed forces did a great job," he wrote on Twitter.

The Russian Defence Ministry says it has withdrawn its forces from Snake Island, which became a focus of attention in the first few days of the war when a small group of Ukrainian soldiers defending the island were heard in audio recordings telling a Russian warship to "go to hell".

"As a goodwill gesture, Russian troops have today completed the performance of tasks on Snake Island and withdrawn the garrison stationed there," the ministry said.

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More now from British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss, who says that the additional £1bn in military aid that the UK has pledged to Ukraine will enable it to succeed in its "very important mission - not only to protect peace and freedom in Ukraine, but also more widely across Europe".

Speaking to the BBC, Truss says: “They are not just fighting for themselves, they are fighting for all of us because we know that if the Russians were successful that would bring untold insecurity right across the European continent and the world.”

However, when asked if the £1bn pledged by the UK is anywhere near enough the amount needed by Ukraine, Truss says the UK’s contribution is "helping the nation kickstart its economy and reconstruct".

"It's not a blank cheque and we are providing specific amounts of funding... we've been very clear with them we will not let them down.

"We will continue to support in the long term in which ever way we can, in a way that we can afford as the UK."

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We've reported this morning that US intelligence agencies believe Russia's President Vladimir Putin still wants to capture most of Ukraine.

In their latest assessment, officials say that despite this aim, Moscow's troops have been so weakened by combat that they are only capable of making slow territorial gains.

It means the war could last for a long time, says Avril Haines, director of national intelligence.

In March, Moscow refocused its efforts on seizing Ukraine's Donbas area after failing to take Kyiv and other cities.

But Putin still has the same goals as the ones he held at the start of the conflict, Haines - the US's top intelligence officer - says. That is to take most of Ukraine.

She adds Russia is unlikely to achieve that goal any time soon.

Read more here.

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Jonathan Beale
BBC defence correspondent

Britain was one of the first countries to supply arms to Ukraine.

It started small – with anti-tank missiles. Now the UK is supplying more heavy weaponry – including artillery systems.

Britain has been at the forefront of this international effort and Ukraine has made clear it’s very grateful to the UK. But Boris Johnson’s claim that “UK weapons, equipment and training are transforming Ukraine’s defences” is still a bold one.

The US is spending considerably more – nearly half of the $40bn it’s giving Ukraine is for military support. Some smaller nations, such as Estonia, have spent a larger proportion of their income on arming Ukraine.

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And Ukraine still says it’s not getting enough. Its deputy defence minister recently claimed it had only received a tenth of the weapons it's asked for. For example, Ukraine says it needs hundreds of multiple rocket launchers. The US, UK and Germany have so far promised to send about a dozen.

These weapons are far more advanced. But Ukraine’s military is still heavily reliant on older Soviet-era weaponry. The transfer of western weapons has been slow and incremental.

Britain has also had to source some of the weapons it’s sending to Ukraine from third countries – a sign there’s not a lot left in the cupboard.