Russia-Ukraine live: Kyiv says it has repelled Luhansk attacks

Russia has intensified assaults throughout swaths of southern and jap Ukraine in current weeks, and a serious new offensive has been extensively anticipated [File: Marko Djurica/Reuters]

• Ukraine says it has repelled Russian assaults in Luhansk after Moscow claimed its troops had damaged by two fortified strains of Ukrainian defences within the jap area.
• Germany backs elevating NATO’s navy spending goal as member states’ defence ministers meet for a second day in Brussels.