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A leaked recording reveals Donald Trump claimed he had warned Vladimir Putin over any attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, Moscow launches a barrage of strikes on Kyiv overnight. Follow the latest below.
Thursday 10 July 2025 15:14, UK
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The European Commission has dismissed an interpreter hired by the EU over concerns of a potential security breach
The translator was a French-Ukrainian freelancer brought in to help leaders communicate with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to France’s Le Monde.
But they were dismissed after they were caught taking notes during a sensitive session – this is strictly prohibited.
The commission told POLITICO that it took action over “an incident related to note-taking” during a European Council meeting that Zelenskyy attended in December last year.
“The notes were immediately confiscated,” a spokesperson told POLTICO.
The investigation has now been handed over to Belgian authorities.
Sir Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are hosting a call with members countries from the so-called coalition of the willing to discuss the proposed peacekeeping mission to deter Russia from attacking Ukraine in the future.
The prime minister says so far Vladimir Putin has “turned his back” on a ceasefire.
“Four months have passed since Ukraine agreed to a full and unconditional ceasefire. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has shown real leadership on this issue,” he says.
“Putin’s response, in contrast, has been utterly barbaric.”
He says that while the coalition will stand ready to support a future peace, as leaders they should shift their work “from preparing for peace to making it happen”.
This means “forcing Putin to the table”.
Macron says the coalition has to do “whatever we can” to allow Ukraine to resist Russia.
On the ceasefire, he says this is where “we need something new”.
A member of Ukraine’s security service (SBU) was shot and killed this morning in Kyiv, the agency’s press service says, adding a criminal investigation has been launched.
Ukrainian police reported a shooting in the Holosiivskyi district of the capital this morning, saying that officers discovered the body of a person with a fatal gunshot wound.
A Ukrainian official told the Reuters news agency the agent was a colonel with the SBU, with Ukrainska Pravda naming him as Ivan Voronych.
CCTV footage that shows the killing was published in Ukraine, where it was suggested he was leaving his apartment when the attack happened.
Here are the latest battlefield maps in Ukraine.
Scroll through the maps below to view different parts of Ukraine, including the situation in key regions such as Luhansk, Donetsk, Kursk and Belgorod.
Germany is prepared to buy Patriot air defence systems from the US and provide them to Ukraine, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has said.
“We are also prepared to purchase additional Patriot systems from the US to make them available to Ukraine,” Merz said at the Ukraine Recovery Conference today.
Merz said he asked Donald Trump last week to deliver the Patriots, adding: “The Americans need some of them themselves, but they also have a lot of them.
“It has not yet been finalised whether a delivery will be made.”
The US-made Patriot air defence systems are a core part of the air defences of the US and a number of other NATO allies.
In December, the US agreed to send a Patriot system to Ukraine but experts said it would take months to train soldiers and would need around 90 troops to operate it.
The system is also only able to cover a relatively small area, meaning Ukraine cannot use it to defend the whole of its territory – rather a strategic target.
As we have been reporting today, Russia has launched yet another large-scale drone attack on Ukraine.
This came after they conducted the largest combined drone and missile strike of the war on Tuesday night, with 741 total drones and missiles sent to Ukraine.
Looking at the barrage of drones and missiles being fired at Ukraine, military analysts have told The New York Times they “expect Russia to routinely launch more than 1,000 drones per strike by autumn”.
The predictions further strengthen Volodymyr Zelenkyy’s calls for more air defence systems and missiles for his country.
Last night, Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital with another major missile and drone attack, killing at least two people and causing fires across Kyiv a day after the heaviest drone attack of the war so far.
Russia fired 397 Shahed and decoy drones along with cruise and ballistic missiles at Kyiv and five other regions, authorities said.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, who is among those present at the Ukraine Recovery Conference, has survived a vote of no confidence at the European Parliament.
Away from the conference in Rome, an overwhelming number of European Union legislators have rejected a censure motion against her.
The motion contained a mix of allegations against the EU chief, including text messaging privately with the chief executive of vaccine maker Pfizer during the pandemic, misuse of EU funds and interference in elections in Germany and Romania.
The motion was defeated in a 360-175 vote, with 18 legislators choosing to abstain during a plenary session at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France.
Marco Rubio has just been speaking in Malaysia following a meeting with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
The US secretary of state says he had a “frank, important conversation” with Lavrov, stressing that Washington “needs to see a roadmap” on how the war in Ukraine can end.
Rubio said Donald Trump was disappointed there had not been “more flexibility” on the Russian side over Ukraine.
“We understand these things take time and patience, but we’re frustrated more progress hasn’t been made,” he said.
Rubio added that Russia had offered a “new and a different approach” during talks today, without expanding on what it included.
“I wouldn’t characterise it as something that guarantees peace, but it’s a concept I will take back to the president today,” he said.
Here are the latest images from Kyiv.
Ukrainian authorities say at least two people have been killed and 22 injured by Russia’s overnight drone and missile attacks.
Britain will sign a defence agreement with Ukraine involving the supply of more than 5,000 air defence missiles, the UK government has announced.
The government also said it would supply up to £283m in bilateral assistance to Ukraine over the next year.
Around 200 British jobs will be created and another 700 safeguarded as part of the major defence deal between the UK and Ukraine, which will be signed at Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC).
The UK will also provide up to £10.5m for the Governance Reform Programme.
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