Six people have been killed and dozens more wounded in a Russian missile strike on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih, as air attacks were reported in Kyiv and other cities.
“A five-storey building got destroyed” Serhiy Lysak, the governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on Telegram. “There are still people under the rubble.”
Three cruise missiles were shot down but others got through, he said.
Kryvyi Rih’s mayor, Oleksandr Vilkul, said six people had died in the attack.
The devastation in President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s hometown is the latest bloodshed in Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its 16th month, as Ukrainian forces are mounting counteroffensive operations using western-supplied firepower.
Zelenskiy said Russia was continuing its “war against residential buildings, ordinary cities and people” and the rescue operation was continuing in the city.
Images from the scene relayed by Zelenskiy on his Telegram channel showed firefighters battling blazes as pockets of fire poked through multiple broken windows of a building. Charred and damaged vehicles littered the ground nearby.
Elsewhere, the Ukrainian capital and the north-eastern city of Kharkiv also came under missile and drone attack.
“According to initial reports, the enemy used Kh-101/555 cruise missiles,” Kyiv’s city military administration said. “All enemy targets in the airspace around Kyiv were detected and successfully destroyed,” it said, adding there was no immediate information on any casualties or damage.
In Kharkiv, civilian infrastructure was hit by a drone attack, said the city’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov. “According to initial reports, a utility company in the Kyivskyi district, as well as a warehouse in Saltivskyi district got damaged. A fire broke out as a result of the explosion on the latter,” he said.
Air alerts also sounded in the Dnipropetrovsk oblast and the neighbouring Donetsk and Poltava regions.
Ukraine says it has retaken several villages and made advances in its counteroffensive against Russian forces. “The fighting is tough, but we are moving forward, this is very important,” Zelenskiy said on Monday in his daily evening address.
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Former president Donald Trump is expected to surrender to authorities at a federal courthouse in Miami, Florida on Tuesday (13 June) on 37 charges related to his retention of classified documents.
On Monday afternoon, Mr Trump left his residence in Bedminster, New Jersey, and boarded his private plane to make his way down to Florida.
It is the second time Mr Trump will be arraigned, the first being earlier this year when he was indicted in New York on 34 felony charges related to business fraud.
Unlike his previous indictment and arraignment, this one is on the federal level via the Department of Justice.
In most cases, criminal defendants are handcuffed, fingerprinted and photographed for a mug shot before appearing before the court. It is unclear if the procedure will remain for Mr Trump as authorities in New York only took his fingerprints.
Like last time, cameras will not be allowed in the Wilkie D Ferguson Jr courthouse during the former president’s arraignment. However, news reporters who manage to get a seat at the hearing will be allowed to use electronic devices but only in text function and not verbatim.
“News reporters are not authorized to record or transmit in any way audio, still photography, or video from anywhere inside courthouses nor from inside courtrooms, including any lobby areas, of any building housing a federal court,” the Southern District of Florida court website says.
Mr Trump’s hearing is set to begin at 3pm ET.
Though the former president can change his mind, he likely will enter a not-guilty plea deal as he has vocally expressed his innocence. During that time, Mr Trump will most likely stand next to his lawyer until the judge gives him permission to speak.
After the hearing, Mr Trump is expected to return to New Jersey after his arraignment on Tuesday and will deliver remarks at his golf club in Bedminster later in the evening.
Miami mayor Francis Suarez said the city is enacting plans to “make sure that everyone has a right to peacefully express themselves and exercise their constitutional rights” in “an obviously peaceful manner”.
Mourners at the wake of an elderly Ecuadorean woman were startled to discover she was still alive.
Bella Montoya, 76, was declared dead last week following a suspected stroke.
Five hours into her wake on Friday, relatives preparing to change her clothes ahead of the burial found her gasping for air.
Ms Montoya is now back in hospital in intensive care, and Ecuador's health ministry has set up a committee to investigate the incident.
In a statement, the ministry said that the woman went into cardiorespiratory arrest - a loss of breathing and heart function - and did not respond to resuscitation attempts.
The doctor on duty confirmed her death.
Her son, Gilber Rodolfo Balberán Montoya, was quoted by local media as saying that his mother had been "admitted around 09:00, and at noon a doctor told me [she] died".
Ms Montoya was then placed in a coffin for several hours until she was seen by family members trying to breathe.
A video posted on social media showed her lying in an open casket and breathing heavily while several people crowded around her.
Paramedics are then seen arriving and observing Ms Montoya before moving her on to a stretcher and into an ambulance.
Now she is in intensive care in the same hospital where doctors declared her death.
AFP news agency quoted Mr Balberán as saying: "Little by little, I am grasping what has happened. Now I only pray for my mother's health to improve. I want her alive and by my side."
At least 10 people have died and 25 others are in hospital after a wedding bus crashed in an Australian wine region.
The passengers were returning from a wedding at a winery on Sunday night in Hunter Valley, a popular spot for wine tourists, when their coach overturned.
Police say they have charged the 58-year-old bus driver, but are yet to disclose the charges. The cause of the crash is unclear.
The newly-weds were not on the bus.
Police commissioner Karen Webb said the site of the crash is "still an active crime scene". "We've got forensics officers processing the crime scene, we've got crash investigation unit officers, we've got rescue officers [on scene]," she added.
The accident occurred about 23:30 local time [13:30 GMT] when, according to police, there had been heavy fog in the area. The bus had rolled over while making a turn at a roundabout off a highway. Authorities say the vehicle has now been pulled upright.
NSW Police Acting Assistant Commissioner Tracy Chapman said the guests were travelling to Singleton "presumably for their accommodation". Two of the survivors were airlifted from the crash, she added. Local media report that at least one of them is still in a critical condition. She said the police were still in the process of identifying the dead.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said it is "so cruel, so sad and so unfair" for a "joyous day in a beautiful place like that to end with such terrible loss of life".
"People hire a bus for weddings in order to keep their guests safe, and that just adds to the unimaginable nature of this tragedy," he said at a press conference in Canberra.
Mr Albanese said some of the injured passengers are at John Hunter Hospital, but many have been flown to Sydney.
NSW Premier Chris Minns said the loss of so many lives was "nothing short of heartbreaking", adding: "For this horrific crash to have occurred on a day that should have been filled with love and happiness only adds to the heartbreak."
"For a day of joy to end in such devastating loss is cruel indeed. Our thoughts are also with those who have been injured," he said.
Hunter Valley in New South Wales is known for its vineyards and native bushland, making it a popular spot for wine lovers and group outings or celebrations.
A guest at the wedding said the day had been a "fairy tale" until news of the accident broke.
"We all started panicking," he told 7 News.
Police said they are still working to identify the crash victims and contact their next of kin.
"Family and friends of a person who may have been on board the bus are urged to contact Cessnock Police Station," they said in a statement.
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A 13-year-old girl used “survival games” to keep her and her siblings – including a baby – alive in the Amazon Rainforest for 40 days, her family have revealed.
It killed everyone else onboard – including the children’s mother Magdalena Mucutui Valencia.
With no outside help, Lesly and Soleiny resorted to using their knowledge of the jungle to survive, their aunt Damarys Mucutuy said.
Speaking to the Caracol news network, she said the teenager and nine-year-old would frequently play a game setting up “little camps” before the disaster.
She translated this after the crash and used hair ribbons to make camps and keep her younger brothers safe in the jungle which is home to predators including jaguars, pumas, and snakes.
The area is also used by armed gangs that smuggle drugs.
In pictures released by the Colombian military after they were rescued, hair ties can be seen among branches on the jungle floor.
Searchers found evidence the children were still alive
(Aeronuatica Civil de Colombia)
In addition to making a camp, Lesly “knew what fruits she can’t eat because there are many poisonous fruits in the forest. And she knew how to take care of a baby”, her grandmother Fatima Valencia explained.
Ms Valencia added that Lesly’s experience looking after her siblings while her mother was at work also helped.
It is thought that this knowledge, combined with food they managed to salvage from the plane’s wreckage and other skills learned growing up in the Huitoto indigenous group, helped the children survive for such a long period.
The children’s grandfather Fidencio Valencia said they were ‘very weak’ but happy to see their family
“She gave them flour and cassava bread, any fruit in the bush, they know what they must consume,” she told the BBC.
“They were raised by their grandmother,’ said John Moreno, a leader of the Guanano group in Vaupes, in the southeastern part of Colombia where the children were raised.
“They used what they learned in the community, relied on their ancestral knowledge in order to survive.”
The children have since been taken to a military hospital to recover
Speaking after they were found, their grandfather Fidencio Valencia said they were “very weak” but “happy to see their family”.
Ms Mucutuy told a local radio station that “the children are fine” despite being found with signs of dehydration and insect bites and have been offered mental health services. They are currently being cared for at a military hospital in the capital, Bogota.
Friday’s announcement came after weeks of searching for the children by authorities in the South American country.
President Gustavo Petro called them an “example of survival” and predicted their saga “will remain in history”.
One of the four children is stretchered out of a plane upon landing at a military base in Bogota on Saturday
The manhunt was sparked after their children’s bodies were not found alongside the plane’s wreckage which was discovered between 15 May and 16 May.
Around 200 soldiers and indigenous people who knew the area were later dispatched to comb through some 320 square km (124 square miles) of the jungle.
It is thought that at points they came within 100m (300ft) of them, but storms, thick vegetation, and marshy terrain prevented them from making contact.
The air force also dropped food parcels and 10,000 flyers telling them to stay put and giving them survival tips.
One of the children at the Bogota military base on Saturday
After being found, army radios could be heard saying: “Miracle, miracle, miracle, miracle.”
Defence minister Ivan Velasquez has since paid tribute to the various army units' “unshakeable and tireless” work, as well as to the Indigenous people who took part in the search.
Following the children being found, footage showed how the dehydrated and malnourished children were lifted into a helicopter.
“I never lost hope, I was always supporting the search. I feel very happy, I thank President Petro and my countrymen who went through so many difficulties,” the grandmother said.
The children were treated by Special Operations Command medics before they were flown to a hospital. They were flown to the military base of San Jose del Guaviare, according to the Daily Mail.
Colombia's first lady Veronica Alcocer, left, presents a gift to one of the children
(Colombian Presidency/AFP)
Family fleeing threats from crime groups
Days into the initial search Mr Petro announced that the minors had been located and were in good health. But hours later, he walked back that assertion, clarifying that the Air Force and indigenous communities had established contact with the children, but that their location remained unknown.
Ms Mucutuy was travelling with her children to Bogotá to meet her husband Manuel Ranoque and start a new life together.
According to El Tiempo, Mr Ranoque, who is related to a local political leader, previously lived in the indigenous reserve of Puerto Sabalo with his family.
He had to flee the community on foot after receiving threats from crime groups operating in the area. Mr Ranoque completed his odyssey through the jungle and eventually arrived in Bogota.
He reportedly found a job and saved money for a month and a half to afford his family’s transport from their remote community to the Colombian capital.
The search for the children has captivated Colombia during the 40 days since they vanished after surviving the crash.
Members of the Colombian army with one of the children
(Colombian Presidency/AFP)
Plane suffers engine failure
On 1 May, the plane, which was carrying six passengers and the pilot, suffered an engine failure and declared an emergency. After the plane fell off the radar, the search for any survivors started.
The plane had been on a route between Araracuara in the Amazonas province and San Jose del Guaviare for the first leg of the trip when it disappeared.
The plane wasn’t found until two weeks later on 16 May in the rainforest, as weather conditions delayed search operations. The remains of the three adults on the plane were located, but the children weren’t there.
The Colombian armed forces flew 150 soldiers with dogs to the area to search for the siblings. Dozens of volunteers from Indigenous tribes also joined the search efforts.
As they searched in areas with low visibility because of the forest and mist, soldiers in helicopters dropped boxes of food into the jungle for the children to hopefully find.
Colombian president Gustavo Petro visits the four children
(Colombian Presidency/AFP)
‘She had been living in the jungle for so long’
Mucutuy’s mother Fatima told El Tiempo she was combing parts of the jungle herself with other members of indigenous communities.
“I’m waiting for them to return [my daughter’s] body. She had been living in the jungle for so long. I’m waiting for her,” Fatima said at the time. “God is good and I know the children will be found alive.”
Authorities said rescue efforts involved three helicopters, including one which blasted out a recorded message from the children’s grandmother in the Huitoto language telling them to stop moving through the jungle. At night, planes fired flares to help ground crews search.
Confusion as rumours emerges about children’s location
At one point, rumours emerged concerning the children’s location and Mr Petro tweeted on 18 May that they had been found but soon deleted the message, saying that he had been misinformed by one of the government agencies.
At the time, Mr Petro claimed in a statement on Twitter that the children had been found after a search by the military, firefighters, and civil aviation authority officials in the dense jungle of Colombia’s Caqueta province.
“After arduous searching by our military, we have found alive the four children who went missing after a plane crash in Guaviare. A joy for the country,” he said.
Mr Petro deleted his previous tweet, later issuing an apology: “I have decided to delete the tweet because the information provided by [the government’s child welfare agency, ICBF] could not be confirmed. I apologise for the confusion.
“The Military Forces and the indigenous communities will continue in their tireless search to give the country the news it is waiting for. At this time there is no other priority other than moving forward with the search until you find them. Children’s lives are the most important thing,” he said last month.
The Instituto Colombiano de Bienestar Familiar (ICBF) said previously that it had received information “from the field” that the children had been found in good health. However, defence ministry sources then told local media that they had no confirmation that they had been found.
“Information was received from the area assuring contact was made with the four children who were part of the group transported on the aircraft. This report stated that they had been found alive and in good health,” said a statement from the ICBF before the children were located.
“However, the military forces have not yet been able to establish official contact due to adverse weather conditions and difficult terrain,” the statement added. Authorities were not able to “corroborate the information received by the ICBF from various sources”.
ICBF director Astrid Caceres told Caracol Radio last month that the children were safe but that officials lost communication via satellite with them. However, Ms Caceres said they had sent teams to three key areas where the children were believed to be, and she was “very confident” that they would soon be found.
The children were travelling with their mother from Araracuara, a village in the Amazon, to San Jose del Guaviare, a small city on the outskirts of the rainforest.
‘They are children of the jungle’
The president said on Friday following the finding of the children that for a time he thought that they had been rescued by one of the nomadic tribes that still travel through the jungle with little interaction with the authorities.
During the search, signs that the children were alive appeared, including footprints, a baby bottle, diapers, hair ties, children’s scissors, improvised shelters made with jungle vegetation, and fruit with what appeared to be human bite marks.
“The jungle saved them,” Mr Petro said. “They are children of the jungle, and now they are also children of Colombia.”
Ukraine’s armed forces have claimed to have liberated three frontline villages in western Donetsk, almost a week after the launch of counteroffensive operations. Soldiers were shown in video footage raising the Ukrainian flag over the village of Blahodatne, south of the town of Velyka Novosilka, one of the main axes of the counteroffensive so far. Troops from another brigade filmed themselves with their unit’s banner in Neskuchne. Later on Sunday, Kyiv said a third village, Makarivka, had been taken.
Three civilians were killed and 10 others wounded after Russian forces opened fire on a boat carrying flood evacuees to the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson. A 74-year-old man used his body to shield a woman from Russian fire and was hit in the back, Reuters reported. Two of the 10 people wounded were law enforcement officers.
The head of Russia’s Wagner mercenary force, Yevgeny Prigozhin, said his fighters will not sign contracts with the Russian defence ministry, hours after the defence minister, Sergei Shoigu, sought to bring volunteer detachments under its control. “Wagner will not sign any contracts with Shoigu,” Prigozhin said on Sunday, adding that the minister “cannot properly manage military formations”. Wagner was completely subordinated to the interests of Russia, Prigozhin said, but its command structure would be damaged by reporting to Shoigu.
Russia’s defence ministry said its forces had shot down a Ukrainian Su-25 fighter jet in Kherson region, where the breach of the Kakhovka dam has led to major flooding.Russia also repelled three Ukrainian attacks in the Zaporizhzhia region, the ministry said, while the Tass news agency reported Russian air defence systems shot down a Ukrainian missile near the Russian-controlled port city of Berdiansk on the Sea of Azov.
Russia’s defence ministry said Ukraine had made an unsuccessful attempt to attack a vessel of its Black Sea fleet which was protecting natural gas pipelines.The ship was monitoring the situation along the TurkStream and Blue Stream pipelines route in the Black Sea, it said.
Russian forces blew up the Khakhovka dam to prevent Ukrainian troops from launching an offensive and advancing in the southern Kherson region, according to Kyiv’s deputy defence minister. Hanna Maliar said the action was also intended to help Russia deploy reserves to the Zaporizhzhia and Bakhmut areas.
Russia and Ukraine have simultaneously swapped nearly 100 prisoners each. The Ukrainian prisoners included members of the national guard and border guards who had been in action in several places, including near the city of Mariupol and the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
Russia’s defence minister has awarded medals to soldiers after Moscow said its forces had destroyed four German-made Leopard tanks and five US-made Bradley fighting vehicles while repelling a Ukrainian counteroffensive. Sergei Shoigu was shown on state television awarding the Hero of Russia gold star, Russia’s highest military honour, on Sunday to soldiers who said they had destroyed enemy tanks and armoured vehicles.
Two drones crashed early on Sunday in Russia’s Kaluga region – one near the village of Strelkovka, another in the woods in the Medynsky municipal district, according to the governor of the region, Vladislav Shapsha. There were no casualties and only minimal damage, he said on Telegram.
A US citizen arrested in Russia on drugs charges this week is a military veteran and musician who has lived in Moscow for nearly a decade. Travis Michael Leake and a friend, Valeria Grobanyuk, were arrested in a drug raid that has the potential to further ignite tensions between Washington and Moscow. “I don’t understand why I’m here,” said a man shown on camera and identified by Russian state media as Leake. “I do not admit my guilt.”
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started.
"Counter-offensive and defensive actions are taking place," he said.
But he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage or state the counter-offensive was in.
The comments come after an escalation of fighting in the south and east of Ukraine and speculation about progress of the widely anticipated push.
Ukrainian troops are reported to have advanced in the east near Bakhmut and in the south near Zaporizhzhia, and have carried out long-range strikes on Russian targets.
But assessing the reality on the front lines is difficult, with the two warring sides presenting contrasting narratives: Ukraine claiming progress and Russia that it is fighting off attacks.
Meanwhile in Russia's Kaluga region - which borders the southern districts around Moscow - governor Vladislav Shapsha said on Telegram that a drone crashed near the village of Strelkovk early on Sunday. The BBC has not independently verified the report.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video interview published Friday that Ukrainian forces had certainly begun their offensive but that attempted advances had failed with heavy casualties.
Speaking in Kyiv on Saturday after talks with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau, Mr Zelensky described the Russian leader's words as "interesting".
Shrugging his shoulders, raising his eyebrows and pretending not to know who Mr Putin was, Mr Zelensky said it was important that Russia felt "they do not have long left".
He also said that Ukraine's military commanders were in a positive mood, adding: "Tell that to Putin."
Mr Trudeau announced 500 million Canadian dollars (£297m) in new military aid for Ukraine during the unannounced visit.
A joint statement issued after the talks said Canada supports Ukraine becoming a Nato member "as soon as conditions allow for it", adding that the issue would be discussed at the Nato Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania, in July.
Meanwhile, fighting has escalated in recent days in the key southern Zaporizhzhia region, Russian officials say. Ukrainian forces are thought to be trying to push south to split Russian forces in two, breaking through the occupied territory which connects Russia to Crimea.
Ukraine's hope of advances in the region could be hindered by huge flooding in the south of the country after the Nova Khakovka dam was destroyed last week.
The flooding has covered around 230 square miles (596 sq km) either side of the Dnipro River.
In his nightly address on Saturday, Mr Zelensky said 3,000 people have been evacuated from the flooded Kherson and Mykolaiv regions.
And Kherson's regional head Oleksandr Prokudin said water levels had dropped by 27cm, but more than 30 settlements on the right bank of the river - which is Ukrainian-held territory - were still flooded and almost 4,000 residential buildings remained underwater.
Nato and Ukraine's military have accused Russia of blowing up the dam, while Russia has blamed Ukraine.
However, it seems highly likely that Russian forces, which controlled the dam, decided to blow it up in order to make it more difficult for Ukrainian forces to cross the river as part of their ongoing counteroffensive, the BBC's Paul Adams says.
