Russia-Ukraine live news: Putin orders increase of armed forces

Russian troopers speak to one another close to an condominium constructing broken throughout preventing between Russian and Ukrainian forces in Severodonetsk, on the territory which is underneath the Authorities of the Luhansk Folks's Republic management, jap Ukraine [File: AP Photo]

• The EU condemned Russia’s lethal bombardment of a railway station in Ukraine’s jap metropolis of Chaplyne and warned that these “chargeable for Russian rocket terror will probably be held accountable”.

• The loss of life toll from Russian missile assaults on Chaplyne has risen to 25 from an initially reported 22 after three extra our bodies have been retrieved from the rubble within the city as rescue operations there ended, Ukrainian presidential aide Kyrylo Tymoshenko mentioned on Thursday.