If you’re just joining us, here are the day’s main developments:

• Ukraine said on Tuesday it had no interest in occupying territory in Russia’s Kursk region and that its major cross-border incursion would complicate Russian military logistics and its ability to send more units to fight in Ukraine’s east. The comments by the Ukrainian foreign ministry’s spokesman come a week after Kyiv’s forces launched a cross-border assault into the western Russian region of Kursk that Ukraine says has seen its forces take control of 1,000 square kilometres of land.

• To read more about Ukraine’s incursion into Russia, see our in-depth analysis here.

• Russia said it summoned a senior Moldovan diplomat on Tuesday to express “serious concern” over media reports - denied by Moldova - about the potential deployment there of F-16 fighter jets supplied by the West to Ukraine. The Russian foreign ministry said Moscow was alarmed by speculation that F-16s could be based at Moldovan airfields and used to launch attacks on Russian territory.

• Moldova’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday that Chisinau had no plans to host aircraft destined for Ukraine after Russia’s foreign ministry referred to reports that F-16 jets will be based in Moldova. “Moldova does not and will not host weapons and military equipment, including aircraft destined for Ukraine,” the ministry said in a statement.

• The Russian army is intensifying its attacks in eastern Ukraine, military authorities said Tuesday, even as the Kremlin’s forces try to check a stunning week long incursion into Russia by Kyiv’s troops. Ukraine’s general staff said on Tuesday that over the previous 24 hours Russian troops launched 52 assaults in the area of Pokrovsk, a town in Ukraine’s Donetsk region that is close to the front line.

• Two people have been killed after Ukrainian forces shelled a bus with civilians in the Russian-held city of Lysychansk in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday the Tass news agency is reporting, citing Russian-appointed local authorities. Russian-installed officials earlier said that more than 30 people had been wounded in the attack.

• Russia’s defence ministry says it has stopped an attempt by Ukraine to break deeper into the Kursk region and has struck back against Kyiv’s forces in the Sumy region. “Strikes by army aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery fire prevented attempts by enemy mobile groups to break through in armoured vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of the populated areas of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk, and Alekseevsky,” Russia’s defence ministry said in quotes reported by the Interfax news agency.

• Romania’s navy has carried out a controlled explosion of a mine that had drifted to its Black Sea shore, its defence ministry said. Romania, Bulgaria and Turkey have a joint taskforce to defuse stray mines, which began floating in the Black Sea after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

• The UN’s human rights agency is concerned about the possible impact of recent military developments in the war between Russia and Ukraine, its spokesperson said in response to a question about Ukraine’s recent cross-border assault on the Kursk region. “Wherever military operations are occurring by either side, the protection of civilians and civilian objects in accordance with international humanitarian law must be the top priority,” the spokesperson told a briefing.

• Ukraine is restricting the movement of civilians within a 20 km (12 mile) zone in a north-eastern region bordering Russia, Kyiv’s general staff said on Tuesday, as its troops push further into Russian territory amid a week-old surprise offensive. The measure, applying to parts of the Sumy region bordering Russia’s Kursk, was needed due to an “increase in the intensity of hostilities” and the activation of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area, it said.

• Russian drones attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s northern region of Chernihiv overnight, national grid operator Ukrenergo said on Tuesday. Ukrenergo said the power was restored to the industrial and household consumers in some areas of Chernihiv region impacted by power cuts after the attack, according to the statement Ukrenergo shared via Telegram messaging app.

• Russia’s air defence units destroyed 14 drones that Ukraine launched overnight targeting Kursk, Voronezh and Belgorod region, Russia’s news agencies reported on Tuesday. Twelve of the drones were destroyed over the border region of Kursk, and one each over Voronezh and Belgorod regions, RIA agency reported citing Russia’s defence ministry.

• Ukraine pummelled two Russian regions with drones on Tuesday as its ground forces tried to smash through defensive lines in a bid to carve out even more territory in its biggest attack on Russian territory since the war began. Ukrainian soldiers crossed the Russian border, about 530 km (330 miles) south-west of Moscow, a week ago, in a surprise attack that President Vladimir Putin said was aimed at improving Kyiv’s negotiating position ahead of possible talks and slowing the advance of Russian forces along the rest of the front.

• Russia launched 38 attack drones and two Iskander-M ballistic missiles at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine’s air force said on Tuesday. Thirty of the drones were destroyed over eight Ukrainian regions, the air force said on the Telegram messaging app. It was not clear what happened to the weapons that were not destroyed, Reuters reported.

• On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign intelligence services accused Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, of taking “insane” steps that threaten to escalate the war far beyond his country, according to a report from Russia’s RIA state news service. It comes as Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square km (386 square miles) of the Kursk region, Associated Press reports.

Ukraine said on Tuesday it had no interest in occupying territory in Russia’s Kursk region and that its major cross-border incursion would complicate Russian military logistics and its ability to send more units to fight in Ukraine’s east.

The comments by the Ukrainian foreign ministry’s spokesman come a week after Kyiv’s forces launched a cross-border assault into the western Russian region of Kursk that Ukraine says has seen its forces take control of 1,000 square kilometres of land.

“Unlike Russia, Ukraine does not need other people’s property. Ukraine is not interested in taking the territory of the Kursk region, but we want to protect the lives of our people,” Heorhii Tykhyi, the spokesman, told reporters in Kyiv.

Russia’s defence ministry says it has stopped an attempt by Ukraine to break deeper into the Kursk region and has struck back against Kyiv’s forces in the Sumy region.

“Strikes by army aviation and unmanned aerial vehicles, and artillery fire prevented attempts by enemy mobile groups to break through in armoured vehicles deep into Russian territory in the areas of the populated areas of Obshchy Kolodez, Snagost, Kauchuk, and Alekseevsky,” Russia’s defence ministry said in quotes reported by the Interfax news agency.

Russia also claims to have prevented a Ukrainian attack near Martynovka in the Kursk region, destroying two armoured vehicles and cars carrying 15 service personnel.

The Ukrainian military has not commented on the reports and the Guardian has not been able to immediately verify these claims.

In May this year, Lubov Nedoriz, a volunteer social worker, received a call from the police in Pervomaiskyi, a town in the Ukrainian province of Kharkiv. The Russians had just launched an offensive in the region that continues today.

The police told her about a 30-year-old man who had recently returned from the frontline in Kharkiv and attacked his mother, who was now worried about his violent and angry behaviour.

“He used to be a good son, the mother later told me,” says Nedoriz. He had had a university education and was “very kind and loved his girlfriend”, but that changed after he had been sent to the frontline in Kharkiv.

“He became angry a lot, started listening to rock music and fought with his girlfriend. When his mother had tried to intervene, he severely beat her up.”

Nedoriz, who trained as a criminologist before the war, says such calls for help from law enforcement and women are becoming increasingly common.

With Russia’s war against Ukraine in its third year, many women in the country are now fighting their own battle, as the number of domestic violence cases increases significantly.

According to Ukraine’s internal affairs ministry, police registered more than 291,000 cases of domestic violence across the country in 2023 – a 20% increase on the previous year, when the Russian invasion began.

The UN’s human rights agency is concerned about the possible impact of recent military developments in the war between Russia and Ukraine, its spokesperson said in response to a question about Ukraine’s recent cross-border assault on the Kursk region.

“Wherever military operations are occurring by either side, the protection of civilians and civilian objects in accordance with international humanitarian law must be the top priority,” the spokesperson told a briefing.

The UN has unverified reports of four civilians killed, plus one male war correspondent and one female paramedic injured, she added. It has not been able to establish under what circumstances the casualties occurred.

Ukraine is restricting the movement of civilians within a 20 km (12 mile) zone in a north-eastern region bordering Russia, Kyiv’s general staff said on Tuesday, as its troops push further into Russian territory amid a week-old surprise offensive.

The measure, applying to parts of the Sumy region bordering Russia’s Kursk, was needed due to an “increase in the intensity of hostilities” and the activation of Russian sabotage and reconnaissance groups in the area, it said.

“The military command imposed restrictions on the movement of all categories of citizens in the twenty-kilometre border zone of the Sumy region,” it said in a statement on social media, Reuters reported.

The general staff added that the measure was temporary and that residents of the newly restricted area could still access their homes by showing proof of registration.

Welcome to our coverage of the Russia-Ukraine conflict amid the dramatic incursion into Kursk by Kyiv’s forces.

On Tuesday, Russia’s foreign intelligence services accused Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, of taking “insane” steps that threaten to escalate the war far beyond his country, according to a report from Russia’s RIA state news service.

It comes as Ukraine’s top military commander says his forces now control 1,000 square km (386 square miles) of the Kursk region, Associated Press reports.

General Oleksandr Syrskyi made the statement in a video posted on Monday to Zelenskiy’s Telegram channel. In the video, he briefed the president on the frontline situation.

“The troops are fulfilling their tasks. Fighting continues actually along the entire front line. The situation is under our control,” Syrskyi said.

Russian president, Vladimir Putin, has vowed a “worthy response” to the Kursk attack and ordered his troops to “dislodge the enemy from our territories”.

In other news:

• The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said late on Monday that its representatives had inspected a damaged cooling tower at the Russia-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine but could not immediately determine the cause of a fire there at the weekend. Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of starting the fire at the vast dormant nuclear power plant in Ukraine, with Russia blaming a drone attack and Ukraine saying it was likely Russia’s negligence or arson.

• In a meeting with his national security council Russian President, Vladimir Putin, said the attack was aimed at improving Kyiv’s negotiating position ahead of possible peace talks and at slowing the advance of Russian forces. “The main task, of course, is for the defence ministry to squeeze out, to knock out the enemy from our territories,” Putin said, adding: “The enemy will certainly receive a worthy response.”

• Zelenskiy said the Kursk attack was targeting areas from which Russia was launching assaults on Ukrainian territory. “It is only fair to destroy Russian terrorists where they are, where they launch their strikes from,” he said in his nightly address. “Russian military airfields, Russian logistics. We see how useful this can be for bringing peace closer. Russia must be forced into peace if Putin wants to continue waging war so badly. He added: “Russia brought war to others, and now it is coming home.”

• Ukrainian forces in Kursk were trying to encircle Sudzha, where Russian natural gas flows into Ukraine, Reuters reported. Major battles were also under way near Korenevo, about 22 km (14 miles) from the border, and Martynovka village.

• Putin said on Monday that, despite the attack, “our armed forces are moving forward along the entire line of contact” in Ukraine. Russia’s defence ministry said on Monday its troops had “accelerated the speed of advance” in the eastern Donetsk region and taken the hamlet of Lysychne in their push towards the city of Pokrovsk. It was not possible to verify the claim independently.

• Ukrainian prosecutors said on Monday that law enforcement authorities had detained one of the country’s four deputy energy ministers and three other people as they were receiving part of a $500,000 bribe. An investigation revealed that the suspects had organised a scheme to smuggle mining equipment belonging to a state-owned coal mining enterprise out of the combat zone in the Donetsk region, according to the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine. The suspects were not named.