Russian forces shelled a town in eastern Ukraine, killing six people, according to Ukrainian officials. Early in the morning, the town of Toretsk was shelled. A 2-storey building with people inside was destroyed. Rescuers found and recovered the bodies of 5 dead people in total. 3 people were rescued from the rubble and one of them died in hospital.

Volodymyr Zelensky has appointed a new security official as acting head of the domestic security agency after two top officials were fired over claims of failure to counter Russian infiltration. Zelenskiy’s childhood friend, Ivan Bakanov, will be replaced by Vasyl Maliuk, a former first deputy head of the SBU who led the anti-corruption and organized crime unit of the agency’s central directorate.

The United States will continue to provide intelligence to Ukraine despite recent changes in Ukrainian President’s inner circle, the US state department said. It’s spokesperson Ned Price said: “We invest not in personalities, we invest in institutions. We do have an intelligence-sharing relationship with our Ukrainian counterparts ... We continue to proceed ahead with that”.

Foreign ministers from European Union countries have agreed another EUR 500m of EU funding to supply arms to Ukraine, taking the bloc’s security support to EUR 2.5bn since February.