Ukraine and Russia: What you need to know right now

FIGHTING * Ukrainian rocket strikes have destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centres in recent weeks and significantly reduced Russia's attacking potential, Ukraine's defence ministry spokesperson said on Friday.

A Ukrainian city far from the frontline grieved its dead including a 4-year-old girl with Down's Syndrome on Friday, a day after a Russian missile attack killed at least 23 people and wounded scores. ECONOMY/DIPLOMACY

* Agreements on the export of Ukrainian grain will not lead to the resumption of Russia-Ukraine negotiations, Leonid Slutsky, a Russian lawmaker who had taken part in peace talks with Kyiv in the past, said on Friday, state news agency TASS reported. * Ukraine is hurrying to clinch a deal with Russia, Turkey and the United Nations next week to export grain via its Black Sea ports, a senior Ukrainian official source said on Friday.

* Russia will block the sale of foreign banks' Russian subsidiaries while Russian banks abroad cannot function normally, the Interfax news agency cited Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Moiseev as saying on Friday. * The European Union's executive, the European Commission, on Friday formally proposed new sanctions on Russia, including a new import ban on Russian gold. EU governments must still sign off on the measures, expected as early as next week.

* Russian investors will have the right to ask foreign institutions holding their frozen securities to transfer depositary accounting rights to a Russian organisation, according to a law signed by President Vladimir Putin late on Thursday. * U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen condemned Russia's "brutal and unjust war" in Ukraine and said Russian finance officials taking part in a G20 meeting in Indonesia shared responsibility for the "horrific consequences" of the war.

* Britain's foreign office on Friday summoned Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin to express "deep concern" over reports of the death of a British aid worker. FIGHTING

* Ukrainian rocket strikes have destroyed more than 30 Russian military logistics centres in recent weeks and significantly reduced Russia's attacking potential, Ukraine's defence ministry spokesperson said on Friday. * Ukraine's defence minister said on Friday that the first M270 multiple rocket launch systems had arrived in Ukraine, without specifying the country which handed them over.

* Russia's defence ministry said Thursday's cruise missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Vinnytsia was directed at a building where top officials from Ukraine's armed forces were meeting foreign arms suppliers. Ukraine has denied any military target was hit, saying the attack killed at least 23 people and struck a cultural centre used by retired veterans. * Russian forces have been slowly advancing west following shelling and probing assaults towards the town of Siversk in Ukraine's Donetsk region from Lysychansk, Britain's defence ministry said in a regular bulletin.

* Ukraine is using Western-supplied long-range weapons and 155mm "smart" shells to hit Russian ammo dumps and supply lines, forcing Moscow to rethink how it supplies fuel and ammunition to the front line, a Ukrainian general said. * Reuters could not independently verify the battlefield accounts. (Compiled by Nick Macfie, William Maclean)