US Secretary of State Marco Rubio today criticized Europe's calls for tougher sanctions against Russia. This came as a surprise to NATO foreign ministers, who had discussed a different stance with him the day before,

A Russian missile attack in southeastern Ukraine on Tuesday killed at least 17 people and caused sweeping damage, officials said, as President Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged Kyiv's allies at a NATO summit to bolster Ukraine's defence industry.

The strikes, in the Dnipropetrovsk region, wounded more than 160 others. Three more people, including a toddler, were reported killed in separate strikes on the northeastern city of Sumy. The rare daytime attack came as Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived at the Nato summit in the Netherlands for meetings with European leaders.