A Russian strike on a grocery store and a pharmacy in the north-eastern Kharkiv region killed three people, including a 14-year-old girl, on Wednesday.

The strike in Lyptsi, some 10 kilometers from the Russian border, also injured a 16-year-old boy and a lady. Another hit with guided aircraft bombs devastated a hospital in the border town of Vovchansk.

In Ukraine’s southern Odesa region, Russian missiles killed four people, including a 10-year-old child, and injured seven more, the governor, Oleg Kiper, announced on Telegram.

Ukraine’s energy ministry said two facilities in the south had been attacked in strikes during the night, causing power shortages in two areas.

In Russia, a Ukrainian drone attack on Wednesday killed three people, including two children, in the Kursk border region, the local governor said. The drone fired a missile at a civilian automobile in a settlement in Korenevski district, the governor, Roman Starovoyt, announced on Telegram.

The US top general in Europe has informed Congress that Ukraine will be outgunned 10 to 1 by Russia within a couple of weeks if more ammunition and weapons are not provided to Kyiv shortly.

“The Russians fire five times as many artillery shells at the Ukrainians as the Ukrainians are able to fire back. That will immediately go from 10 to one in a matter of weeks,” Gen. Christopher Cavoli said. “We’re not talking about months. We’re not talking hypothetically.”

Joe Biden on Wednesday encouraged the US House of Representatives to act swiftly on the $60 billion Ukraine measure. “There’s overwhelming support for Ukraine among the majority of Democrats and Republicans.

There should be a vote now,” the president told reporters. The funds passed the Senate but have stalled for months in the House, where the speaker, Mike Johnson, has refused to bring a vote to the floor.

Russia’s foreign ministry has denounced plans to organize a Ukraine peace summit in Switzerland as being driven by elections in the US. The meeting is to take place on June 15–16, and Swiss media have stated Biden is anticipated to participate.

“American Democrats, who need photos and videos of events that supposedly indicate their project ‘Ukraine’ is still afloat, are behind this,” the Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told state-run Tass news agency.

Ukrainian legislators have stirred controversy by deleting a clause in a proposed bill that would have given troops serving for more than 36 months the prospect of being dismissed.

The clause was removed ahead of its second reading and after criticism from the military. The decision caused fury across a country tired of years of war and threatened to sap morale in the overburdened armed services.

The EU’s top court has removed war-related sanctions against notable billionaires Petr Aven and Mikhail Fridman. The court of justice found that the European Council had not produced enough evidence to demonstrate that the duo were involved in measures that “undermine or threaten the territorial integrity, sovereignty, and independence of Ukraine.”.

Eight Nordic and Baltic states are pushing for increased support for Ukraine. The Swedish foreign minister, Tobias Billström, said the government backed “an increased role for NATO in providing security-related assistance to Ukraine.”.

Ukraine and the UK inked a framework agreement to collaborate in the defence and arms production sectors, authorities said in Kyiv, part of a wartime push to build up Ukraine’s domestic weapons industry by working with allies.

China promised not to tolerate “criticism or pressure” over its ties with Russia after Washington warned that it would hold Beijing responsible if Moscow achieved victories in Ukraine.