This concludes our war policy in Ukraine for tonight: please stand firm.
We will be back with all the major updates overnight and tomorrow non-stop.
Before leaving, here is a review of the key moments of the day:
The founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram has been arrested in France, French media reported.
French tv channel TF1 reports that Pavel Durov arrested this night at Le Bourget airport, close to Paris.
According to the channel, the Russian-born businessman is traveling on his personal jet and the subject of an arrest warrant in France.
Telegram responded to a request for comment from news agency Reuters.
Durov, who also founded the now-state-controlled Russian social media service VK, left Russia in 2014 after resisting government pressure to provide information to Ukrainian protesters.
He now lives in Dubai and has citizenship of the United Arab Emirates and France.
Telegram, introduced in 2013, is one of the five most downloaded apps in the world.
Lithuania announced a new batch of military aid to Ukraine, drones and air defense missiles.
Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte said the plan would be for Ukraine to “send the Russian occupiers back to their place. “
In a post to X, Ms Simonyte said the aid would consist of “short-range air defence systems and missiles as well as anti-drones, guns, ammunition and equipment”.
The package will arrive in Kyiv until September, he said.
Vilnius has also pledged to send around 5,000 Lithuanian-made drones to Ukraine by the end of autumn and to allocate 35 million euros (£29. 6 million) for the purchase of radars and demining equipment.
Tanks passing through Poland are being used through Ukraine in its offensive in the Kursk region, President Andrzej Duda confirmed.
Vladimir Putin promised a “dignified response” to any use of Western weapons during the invasion.
Duda’s visit to Kyiv today coincided with Ukraine’s Independence Day celebrations.
In a speech on the occasion, he also said he was convinced that the war “will soon end in victory [for Ukraine]. “
“I have never had the slightest doubt that, through their united efforts and struggle, brave Ukrainians will protect their independence,” he said.
A Russian airstrike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy tonight injured seven people, officials said.
The Sumy regional directorate reported on Telegram that Russia had carried out a missile attack against the city’s civilian infrastructure.
Seven other people were injured and two are in serious condition.
“Take care of yourself and your loved ones, don’t forget the caution signs in the air,” management said.
Sumy is the administrative center of the Sumy region in northeastern Ukraine, bordering Russia.
Volodymyr Zelensky signed several laws targeting Russia, adding one banning devotional organizations connected to Moscow.
The legislation package included the ratification of a statute that paves the way for Ukraine at the International Criminal Court (ICC).
The ratification increases the chances that Russia will be prosecuted for war crimes it allegedly committed during its invasion of Ukraine, according to Zelensky.
Meanwhile, a law has been signed prohibiting the operation of establishments in Ukraine that have ties to Russia.
Under the new law, organizations would have nine months to sever ties with entities linked to Moscow.
Zelensky signed a law granting Ukrainian citizenship to foreigners fighting in his army opposed to Russia.
Ukrainian boxing star Oleksandr Usyk Volodymyr Zelenskyy holds the coveted WBC heavyweight championship belt as the two men gathered to mark Independence Day.
Zelensky posted a video of the assembly on his Telegram channel and said it was an “honor” to get the belt.
“Thank you for everything you are doing for Ukraine. To glorify Ukraine and its invincibility. Thank you!” he wrote.
Usyk beat Britain’s Tyson Fury to become the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world in May.
In an interview with Sky News last month, the boxer revealed how he cried behind closed doors over the war in his country.
Both Belarus and Iran have sent their congratulations to Ukraine on its 33rd anniversary of independence from the former Soviet Union, despite the close ties between the two countries and Russia.
According to Belarusian news firm Belta, President Alexander Lukashenko said his citizens had “always had special respect and consideration” for the Ukrainian people.
“We are united not only by common destiny and family ties, but also by the preference to be friends and get along with neighbors,” he said.
Belarus served as the setting for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Lukashenko is one of Vladimir Putin’s allies.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry posted a message on social media saying it congratulated the Ukrainian government and others on their independence.
Tehran has reportedly delivered a bunch of deadly drones, as well as other weapons, to Moscow for use in its war against Ukraine.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy used an Independence Day message to refer to Vladimir Putin as the “sick old man of Red Square. “
In his speech, Zelensky claimed that the war in Russia had spread to his own territory.
“Those who seek to sow evil in our land will reap culmination in their own soil,” he said.
He also said that “those who tried to turn our lands into a buffer zone now deserve to worry that their own country is not a buffer federation. “
Five other people were injured after Russian shelling in the Kharkiv region of northeastern Ukraine, the government said.
The country’s emergency said Russian forces fired rockets at the village of Novoosynove in the Kupyan district today.
Four and one man were injured, while two residential buildings and a patch of dry grass caught fire.
“Rescue personnel put out the fire and prevented the flames from spreading to other houses,” the emergency service said on Telegram, adding that doctors were at the scene of the attack.