Ukrainian police

Day 562 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Russia shelled a block of flats in the eastern Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, killing nine people, authorities said Saturday, including a two-year-old boy who was rescued from the rubble but died on his way to hospital.

The Kremlin announced today that they have no knowledge of their forces using "Shahed" drones in intensive attacks on Ukraine, which have been going on since the Crimean bridge was hit.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

At least eight dead, including a child, and 30 injured after Russian rocket fire over Vinnytsia

Thirty wounded and eight dead, including a child - this is the total so far (12:30 p.m.) from Russian rocket fire over Vinnytsia, Ukrainian police reported, quoted by UNIAN.

Here are the highlights of events related to the war in Ukraine over the past 24 hours:

Russian forces continue the offensive against Sievierodonetsk and Lysychansk in the Luhansk region

Turkey has ramped up efforts to evacuate thousands of Turkish nationals from Ukraine via land after they were stranded there following Russia's invasion.

Turkish officials from foreign missions in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania and Moldova, are now at the Ukrainian borders of those countries to coordinate the evacuation efforts.

A soldier of the Ukrainian National Guard shot at members of the security in a military factory in Dnipro today for unknown reasons, killing five people and wounded five others, the Ukrainian police announced today.

Kiev's security services picked up a Turkish blogger accused of having links to the network Ankara blames for a 2016 failed coup, Ukrainian police said on July 17.

Ukrainian police have detained the former president of Georgia who has emerged as an anti-corruption campaigner in his new country.

SUV lowed into pedestrians in Kharkiv, Ukraine, taking six victims and injuring 11 people on Wednesday night, RIA Novosti reported, citing information from the interior ministry of the country.