With that round up of the day's events, we are bringing our live coverage to a close. Thanks for joining us.

For the most part, our focus has been on Kramatorsk. We began the morning with updates on a Russian missile strike on the city centre. In the last couple of hours, we learned that the death toll had climbed to 11.

• To read more on the deadly attack, click here

• Kyiv officials are counting down to the "end of Putin", reports the BBC's James Bowen from Kyiv. You can read his latest dispatch here
• And, finally: for the latest on the fallout for the aborted Wagner mutiny, visit this link here

Today's live page was brought to you by editors Alex Binley, Laura Gozzi, James FitzGerald and Sam Hancock. The writers were Yaroslav Lukov, James Harness, Gem O'Reilly, Ece Goksedef, Ali Abbas Ahmadi, Gabriela Pomeroy and Emily Atkinson.

We'll be closing shop in a short while. In the meantime, here's a run down of today's key developments:

• At least 11 people were killed in Tuesday's Russian missile strike on central Kramatorsk - among them 14-year-old twin sisters Yuliya and Anna Aksenchenko
• Moscow acknowledged its attack on the city, but did not say it had targeted civilians
• Ukraine said it identified and arrested a resident of Kramatorsk who may have helped Russia direct the deadly strike
• Ukraine’s defence minister, Oleksiy Reznikov, told the Financial Times that Ukraine's recent gains were a “preview” of a much bigger push to come
• US President Joe Biden told reporters that while Vladimir Putin was "clearly losing the war", it was too early to gauge whether he had been weakened by a rebellion at the weekend (which was later aborted) by the Wagner mercenary group

• Speaking at a press conference with his Polish and Lithuanian counterparts, Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelensky asked for a "signal" that his country will be allowed to join the Nato military alliance once the war is over

Rescue efforts continue in Kramatorsk, following yesterday's devastating Russian missile strike which killed at least 11 people in the eastern Ukrainian city.

Rescuers are still digging through the rubble looking for survivors, as you can see from the pictures below - some of which come from the Ukrainian police.

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Earlier, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenks said he understood his country couldn't join Nato while it was fighting a war - but he wanted a signal that he could do so afterwards.

We've also heard some comments from Nato's leader today on Ukraine's bid for membership of the military alliance of Western nations.

Jens Stoltenberg said "Nato's door is open".

Speaking at the alliance's headquarters in Brussels, Stoltenberg said member nations all agreed that Ukraine would become a member, and that the timing would be decided by all parties. But, he added:

Yevgeny Prigozhin planned to detain two Russian military chiefs in the mutiny staged by his Wagner mercenary group over the weekend - but his plans were tracked down early, meaning the two men evaded capture, reports suggest.

Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of Staff Gen Valery Gerasimov were the targets of the foiled plot, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reports, external, citing Western officials.

Wagner head Prigozhin had allegedly planned to strike while the pair were on a visit in the south of Russia.

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But the country's domestic security service FSB got wise to the scheme, prompting Shoigu and Gerasimov to change their plans, unnamed officials tell WSJ.

Backed into a corner, Prigozhin was reportedly forced to move early. By Friday, Wagner mercenaries had taken control of a key military headquarters in Rostov-on-Don, southern Russia.

Earlier today, the New York Times reported, external that senior Russian general Sergei Surovikin knew in advance of Prigozhin's plans.

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Over to the US now, where President Joe Biden has been speaking about his Russian counterpart.

Vladimir Putin has become a "pariah" around the world, Biden told reporters at the White House.

He said that while Putin was "clearly losing the war" he waged on Ukraine, it was too early to tell whether the Russian leader has been weakened by the Wagner group's aborted mutiny.

Notably, Biden appeared to mistakenly refer to Ukraine as "Iraq". Answering a reporter's question about Putin, he said: "It’s hard to tell, but he’s clearly losing the war in Iraq. He’s losing the war at home."

We've got some pictures of the meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Polish President Andrzej Duda and Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda, which took place today in Kyiv.

Our coverage of the press conference they gave can be found in some earlier posts, starting here.

A key takeaway was the two visiting leaders expressing their support once again for Ukraine's hopes to join Nato.

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We said earlier that we'd let you know of any other lines to come out of the press conference in Kyiv, with the presidents of Ukraine, Poland and Lithuania.

Well, Polish leader Andrzej Duda went on to say that Wagner’s presence in Belarus could be "a potential danger" to all of its neighbours - including Poland, Lithuania and Latvia.

He warned that the mercenary group requires “very close vigilance from Nato".

BBC News' security correspondent Frank Gardner said something similar in a bit of analysis today, that the Wagner Group's potential move to Belarus would be deeply unwelcomed by its Nato neighbours in eastern Europe.

Away from the city of Kramatorsk, Ukraine's ministry of culture has announced a plan aimed at further distancing the country from its entwined history with Russia.

In a bid to stop Ukraine celebrating Christmas on the same day as Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky has submitted a bill to Ukraine’s parliament, proposing the Orthodox holiday be celebrated on 25 December rather than 7 January.

The bill's purpose is to abandon the “Russian legacy of imposing Christmas" in January, says culture minister Oleksandr Tkachenko, who adds this will bring Ukraine closer to European traditions, "with which we have common values".

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Russia has acknowledged carrying out a strike on Ukraine's eastern Kramatorsk city. It says it was aimed at military targets - in contrast with reports coming out of Ukraine about civilian deaths.

In a statement, the Russian defence ministry says it hit "the point of temporary deployment of commanders of the 56th motorised infantry brigade of Ukraine's armed forces".

It provided no evidence to back up its claim.

Ukrainian officials say at least 11 people - including three children - were killed when a Russian missile flattened a popular cafe in Kramatorsk late on Tuesday.

Dozens of people were injured, with Kyiv accusing Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians - a claim denied by the Kremlin.

As we've been reporting, emergency workers are continuing to search for survivors and bodies in Kramatorsk.

Some residents have taken to standing by the rubbles of a blown-up restaurant, behind police tape, watching and presumably waiting for any kind of update.

These images were sent by our reporter Ed Habershorn, who's in the city.

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Let's hear now from Galyna, a military medic, who was in a nearby apartment when Russian missiles hit Kramatorsk yesterday. She rushed to the scene and treated an injured woman before taking her to hospital in a civilian car.

"Her condition is critical, very difficult," Galyna tells the AFP news agency. "She has an open brain injury. Parts of her skull went into the brain. I didn't have time to think, I had to act. I saw that there was an injury and I got to work."

Asked about the injured woman's state, the medic says she found her wheezing and in a state of "muffled consciousness".

Galyna says that after she performed her roadside operation - with the limited medical supplies she had - she heard a groan of pain, "which is a good sign because before that [the injured woman] only wheezed".

The death toll of the attack is currently at 11 and the search operation continues.

Back in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, it's been confirmed that the death toll of yesterday's Russian missile attack has risen to 11.

Ukraine's emergencies service DSNS published the update on its Telegram channel.

It says three children were among the dead and another 56 people were injured. We reported earlier that 14-year-old twin sisters Yuliya and Anna Aksenchenko were among those killed.

Teams of psychologists have been deployed to help those grieving.

Ukraine's President Zelensky says he understands that his country can't join Nato while it's fighting a war - but he wants a signal that "after the war Ukraine will be a member".

Speaking ahead of a Nato summit next month, he adds that Kyiv wants "security guarantees" in the interim period before it can join the alliance.

Ukrainian officials have been lobbying for a bespoke route to become part of Nato in order to circumvent the normal process - which would leave it at the mercy of a last-minute veto from one of the member states.

We're going to leave this press conference now but if any other developments come out of it, we'll let you know.

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Members of the Russian mercenary group Wagner are believed to still be in Ukraine, President Zelensky tells reporters at the press conference in Kyiv.

In case you need a refresh - the Wagner leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, staged a mutiny in Russia over the weekend, sending a convoy of his troops towards Moscow.

President Vladimir Putin accused Prigozhin of treason, but the Wagner chief eventually agreed to call off the mutineers and left Russia for Belarus under the deal.

Speaking on the situation in Ukraine, Zelensky says his army believes the situation in the north is under control.

More now from that meeting we mentioned in our last post. Nato members Poland and Lithuana will do everything they can to see that Ukraine joins the military alliance as soon as possible, Polish president Andrzej Duda says.

Speaking at a joint press conference, alongside his Ukrainian and Lithuanian counterparts, he says: "We are trying to ensure that the decisions made at the (Nato) summit clearly indicate the perspective of membership, we are conducting talks on this issue with our allies."

As we've said before, Nato members are due to meet in Lithuania next month.

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Away from the scene in Kramatorsk, the Polish and Lithuanian presidents are in Kyiv to meet their Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky. We're starting to receive a few remarks from them via the news agencies now - we'll keep you posted.

It's expected that the leaders are today preparing some of the groundwork ahead of a meeting on 11-12 July in Lithuania of Nato members.

The hopes of Ukraine and Sweden to join the Western military alliance are expected to be a key theme. In April, Zelensky accepted an invitation to attend the summit in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius. However, he recently told the Wall Street Journal that unless Ukraine is “acknowledged and given a signal in Vilnius" he did not believe there was any "point" in attending.

Sweden had hoped to join by the time of the July summit, but Turkey and Hungary have yet to agree.

It's thought that the deployment to Belarus of troops from the Russian mercenary group Wagner will also be high on Nato's agenda next month.

Ed Habershon
Reporting from Kramatorsk

There is a light rain falling on the rescue efforts here in Kramatorsk. The Ria restaurant is a wreckage of smashed wood, twisted metal and torn canvas.

A group of people are standing in front of it - held back across the street by a blue and yellow cordon of police tape, their faces grim, waiting for news of relatives and friends caught up inside.

Many don’t want to speak, too tired or upset. “We’re looking for three bodies under the collapsed building”, says Iliia Mazhur, a medical worker at the scene. “I’m here to help any survivors, and the relatives waiting outside.”

A large crane is working above the wreckage, pulling huge slabs of concrete from the remains of the building. A stretcher has been taken into the building, ready to bring out any casualties they might find.

The buildings surrounding the restaurant have all been scorched, after the missile came down yesterday evening. There is an eerie quiet here, just a few murmurs from the crowd, with the expectation the death toll may rise.

Then a woman wails: a body is brought out in a black body bag and taken away in a blue van.

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Kramotorsk, the city which was the target of a Russian missile strike yesterday, is in the Donetsk region of Ukraine, which has been claimed and partly occupied by Russia.

Close to the Russian border in east Ukraine, Kramotorsk is not under Russian occupation currently but it is about 18 miles (30km) away from the frontline. East of the frontline is under pro-Russian forces control.

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Ukraine’s air defence systems are “insufficient” to protect the entire country from Russian attacks, advisor to Kyiv’s defence ministry Yuri Sak told the BBC.

Sak said Ukraine’s air defence are currently “insufficient to cover the full territory of Ukraine”.

He added that the Russians have air superiority across the front line, overstretching Kyiv’s defenders - which is why weapons to shore up Ukraine's air defence "are always on top of our wish list".

Ukraine has repeatedly asked its allies to provide modern fighter jets to repel Russian attacks on its territory.

Last month, the US said it would grant the request by allowing Western allies to supply American-made F-16s, and by training Ukrainian pilots to use the jets.

But the jets will not be delivered for some time yet, sparking concerns that Ukraine's ongoing counteroffensive will be slowed - or even halted - as a result.