Russia-Ukraine live news: Civilians ‘killed in occupied Kherson’

The Russian defence ministry says several people killed and injured in the Ukrainian shelling of villages in Kherson region

Russia has carried out missile attacks across southern and eastern Ukraine, including one that destroyed the runway at Odesa airport, Qazet.az reports.

A group of 20 civilians have left the Azovstal steelworks, where the last Ukrainian troops are holed up in Mariupol, according to the Azov Regiment.

A Russian reconnaissance plane briefly violated Sweden’s airspace, Swedish defence officials said.

A Russian official told state media that the risks of nuclear war should be kept to a minimum amid the conflict in Ukraine.

Fourteen Ukrainians including a pregnant soldier have been freed in the latest prisoner exchange with Russian forces, Ukraine says, without revealing the number of Russians returned to Moscow.