A new video shows the moment Storm Shadow Missiles struck a major supply route for Russian troops linking Crimea to the front line.
The footage shows missiles hitting the Chonhar bridge, which lies between the Moscow-annexed peninsula and Russia-occupied areas in southern Ukraine, and the huge explosion that follows.
Vladimir Saldo, the Moscow-appointed Kherson governor, said the bridge was hit by air-launched Storm Shadow missiles supplied by the UK.
Ukrainian authorities, who usually refrain from commenting on specific attacks, didn't directly claim responsibility for the strike, but spokeswoman Natalia Humeniuk for the Ukrainian military's Southern Command emphasised the importance of derailing Russia's logistics in televised comments.
"We are destroying enemy plans, destroying the enemy's capability to stand up against us," she said.
The Chonhar crossing in the north-east of Crimea is one of the two key highways and bridges linking the peninsula with the southern Ukrainian mainland.
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Ukraine has reportedly made gains in the counteroffensive and achieved partial successes, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister has said.
Hanna Malyar, Ukraine's Deputy Defence Minister, reported that Ukrainian forces in the Kreminna area achieved partial successes and consolidated themselves in new positions.
According to the Institute for the Study of War, Ukrainian forces continued counteroffensive operations in at least three sectors of the front and reportedly made gains on Thursday.
The Ukrainian General Staff reported that Ukrainian forces conducted offensive operations in the Kreminna area in Luhansk Oblast, in western Zaporizhia Oblast, and on the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts, the leading defence think tank said.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Tavrisk Group of Forces Spokesperson Captain Valeriy Shershen reported that Ukrainian forces advanced up to one kilometre in western Zaporizhia Oblast and on the administrative border between Zaporizhia and Donetsk oblasts.
Ukraine's counter-offensive requires more aircraft, helicopters and shoulder-launched missiles to challenge Russia's dominance in the air, Kyiv's foreign minister has said.
Dmytro Kuleba said "throwing Russia out of the sky" was second only to the supply of artillery ammunition in the challenges the offensive faced and called for the kit to do so.
"The biggest problem on the counter-offensive is the sustainability of the supply of artillery ammunition, and in sufficient quantities. And the second largest problem of the counter-offensive is Russia's dominance in the air," he said.
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Russia has launched a legal bid to recent legislation banning Moscow from building a new embassy near the Australian Parliament.
Russia informed the goverment it intended to challenge the extinguishment of the lease in the High Court on constitutional grounds, an Australian government statement said.
"Russia's challenge to the validity of the law is not unexpected," the statement said. "This is part of the Russian playbook."
A suspected lone Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow's proposed embassy after the Australian government vetoed the plan on security grounds.
The middle-aged man, clad in track pants and a puffer jacket, presents a prickly challenge for Australian officials, who are wary of forcibly evicting a Russian envoy. Government sources told AFP the man has diplomatic protection, although he did not seem to appear on Russia's public list of representatives in Australia.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described the diplomat as "some bloke standing in the cold on a blade of grass in Canberra".
The "bloke" Mr Albanese insisted, is "not a threat to our national security."
Ukraine's armed forces have halted a Russian offensive towards the cities of Kupiansk and Lyman in the east of the country, and are advancing in the south, a senior Ukrainian defence official has said.
"We had very fierce battles in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, but our soldiers stopped the enemy there," Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar told Ukrainian television.
"Indeed, we still have the main events ahead of us. And the main blow is still to come. Indeed, some of the reserves - these are staged things - will be activated later," Ms Maliar said.
She said Russian forces still aimed to gain control of the whole of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in eastern Ukraine.
Ukraine's military operation in the south was going according to plan and its forces were advancing, even if minefields were slowing them down, she said.
Ukraine said it had downed an entire barrage of 13 cruise missiles fired by Russian forces overnight targeting an airfield in the west of the country.
"Thirteen of the occupiers' cruise missiles were destroyed on June 23.... This time the attack was aimed at a military airfield in the Khmelnytskyi region," the Ukrainian air force said on social media.
A suspected lone Russian diplomat is apparently squatting on the site of Moscow's proposed embassy after the Australian government vetoed the plan on security grounds. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese dismissed the Russian act of defiance, saying a "bloke standing in the cold on a bit of grass in Canberra is not a threat to our national security."
Parliament passed emergency legislation last week blocking on security grounds Russia's lease on the largely empty block because the new embassy would have been too close to Parliament House.
A man has been living on the site in a portable building since Sunday, when passersby first saw Australian Federal Police outside the fenced block in Canberra's Yarralumla diplomatic precinct.
The Russian Embassy refused to comment on a report in The Australian newspaper that the man seen smoking cigarettes outside his accommodation was a Russian diplomat.
The embassy also declined to explain why the man was on the site, saying in an email: "The Embassy does not comment (on) this."
Mr Albanese said the issue would be "resolved," but did not detail how.
Mercenary group chief Yevgeny Prigozhin has accused the Russian top brass of lying to Vladimir Putin about the scale of Russian losses and setbacks in Ukraine.
Mr Prigozhin, whose Wagner private militia spearheaded the Russian capture of the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut last month, is resisting an order for mercenary groups like his to sign contracts with the defence ministry before July 1.
The president's confidant portrays Wagner as Russia's most effective fighting force, and has enjoyed unusual freedom to publicly criticise Moscow - albeit not Putin, on whose support he and Wagner ultimately depend.
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