the kremlin said they only hit military targets, not civilian ones. this was yuri sak, an adviser to the ukraine s defence ministry, responding to that. that s ridiculous, every time the kremlin moves their lips they re lying, and the world knows this by now so there is no trust to anything they said. and this just underscores that these are not normal people with whom negotiations are possible. these are terrorists who have to be either destroyed on the battlefield, which is what the ukrainian army is successfully doing. during the last 2a hours, we have destroyed 930 occupiers on the battlefield, so they either have to be destroyed or the other alternative is to surrender and stand trial. of course we will achieve justice and we will bring to account for these atrocities everybody who is behind them, including the top leadership of the kremlin. our correspondent andrew harding has the latest from the scene in kramatorsk. i m in the centre of kramatorsk, where the missiles
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this is bbc news. it s newsday. hi there, thank you for being with us. we start with the notable increase in military activity, in southern and eastern ukraine. the ukrainian armed forces say they ve launched several attacks, but the russians insist those attacks have been repelled. russian officials are claiming that their troops have succeded in blocking attacks around donetsk, luhansk, and zaporizhzhia the ukrainian attack on donetsk was said to be on a significant scale. but the eastern city of bakhmut is described as the epicentre of hostilities , where ukraine s ground forces are said to be moving forward strongly against russian positions. in a moment, we ll have the latest from moscow but first to kyiv, and our ukraine correspondent james waterhouse. shh. in a war of words, a call for quiet from kyiv. when it comes to its anticipated counteroffensive, ukraine has certainly revelled in trying to confuse russia. this video came with the caption plans love silence
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zelenskyy meet in front of the cameras at the g7 summit as the u.s. announces hundreds of millions of dollars in new aid. voters are going to polls in the parliamentary election in greece, but a clear winner may not emerge. president biden hopes to talk with house speaker kevin mccarthy this morning as the clock ticks down to extend the debt limit. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with laila harrak. g7 leaders meeting in hiroshima, japan, are wrapping up one of their most consequential summits in recent memory. the war in ukraine dominated much of this year s agenda, and ukraine s president was there to make his case in person. for the first time since the war began, an agreement was finally reached among the u.s. and its allies to begin supplying ukraine with advanced fighter jets. u.s. president joe biden soon returns to washington to deal with the debt ceiling crisis in congress, but he and ukraine s president did meet within the past couple of hours, t