At least seven people - including three children - have been killed in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv by overnight Russian strikes, according to authorities. It comes just a day after two missiles killed more than 50 people and injured hundreds in Poltava.
Vladimir Putin is four months into his fifth term as Russian president, and shows no signs of leaving his role. But when the Kremlin leader eventually chooses a successor, the Institute of the Study of War said that person is likely to hold the same views as Putin. The institute said in its daily update that Putin's inner circle and the wider Russian government 'have publicly stated their aversion to peace negotiations with Ukraine on terms other than capitulation'.
'Putin's successor is far more likely to hold such views than to reject them in the absence of significant Russian setbacks,' it said.'The Kremlin has spent years denying the existence of a Ukrainian nation and delegitimising Ukrainian sovereignty, and this effort has had widespread and likely long-term impacts on Russian society and elite opinion.
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