Border clashes between Russia and Ukraine escalate, casualties reported.

Russia claims to have repelled more cross-border attacks from Ukraine while continuing its aerial assaults on Kyiv, killing three people including a nine-year-old girl and her mother locked out of an air raid shelter. Both sides are trying to weaken military capacity ahead of a long-promised Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russia's 15-month-old invasion. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy pressed for Ukraine to be part of the NATO military alliance at a European summit in Moldova, but members are divided over how fast that should be.