Key news from Ukraine war

Welcome to our live coverage of the Ukraine war. Ukrainian forces have broken through Russian defences in the south of the country while expanding their rapid offensive in the east, seizing back more territory in areas that have been annexed by Russia and threatening supply lines for its troops.

Here is the news from the last few hours that we will have more on this soon, in the mean time here is the key news from the last few hours.

Four more advanced rocket systems will be delivered to Ukraine by the US government in the near future. The High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, known as HIMARS, will be part of a new $625 m aid package announced on Tuesday, according to US officials.

No Russia has put Marina Ovsyannikova, the former state TV editor who interrupted a news broadcast to protest the Ukraine war, on a wanted list after she escaped house arrest. In March, the Ukrainian-born Ovsyannikova, 44, gained international attention after she burst into a studio of Channel One, her then employer, to denounce the Ukraine war during a live news bulletin.