Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

One civilian was killed and two wounded, it said. * Russia's defence ministry said its missiles had hit an airfield near the port of Odesa in response to a Ukrainian attack on gas production platforms.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Moscow's massive air and artillery attacks were aimed at destroying the entire Donbas region and urged Ukraine's allies to accelerate the shipment of weapons to match Russia on the battlefield. FIGHTING

* Tass news agency cited pro-Moscow separatists as saying they had captured most of Vovchoyarivka, a village some 12 km (7.5 miles) southwest of the city of Lysychansk. * Russian forces pounded Kharkiv and its surrounds, killing at least 20 people. Kyiv said Moscow was trying to force it to divert battlefield resources to protect civilians there.

* The battle for the eastern city of Sievierodonetsk, where hundreds of civilians are trapped in a chemical plant, seesawed with Ukraine and Russia disputing who controlled the city. * A mass attack consisting of seven "Onyx" missiles occurred in Mykolaiv, according to the "south" district of the Ukrainian armed forces. One civilian was killed and two wounded, it said.

* Russia's defence ministry said its missiles had hit an airfield near the port of Odesa in response to a Ukrainian attack on gas production platforms. * Grain group Viterra said its terminal in the port of Mykolaiv was on fire after being hit in an attack.

* Two drones flying from the direction of Ukraine hit Russia's Novoshakhtinsk oil refinery, near the border. Production has been suspended. * Reuters was unable to independently verify the situation on the ground.

ECONOMY AND DIPLOMACY * Zelenskiy said he believed all European Union members would back granting Ukraine EU candidate status.

* The EU will temporarily shift to coal to cope with slowing Russian gas flows and soaring prices, an official said. * Leaders from the Group of Seven and NATO will seek to increase pressure on Russia at meetings next week, U.S. administration officials said.

* Moscow is working on a "practical" response to Lithuania's ban on the transit of goods sanctioned by the EU to the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, Russian officials said. * President Vladimir Putin said Russia would focus its trade on the other BRICS emerging economies.

* Ukraine said it exported 48% less grain in the first 22 days of June than a year earlier. * Putin signed a decree establishing temporary procedures to fulfil foreign debt obligations.

QUOTE "Harry Potter is better than Voldemort, and we know who is Voldemort in this war, and who is Harry Potter, so we know how the war will end," Zelenskiy said, speaking to a student in Canada who compared him to the fictional boy wizard. (Compiled by Himani Sarkar)