Woman killed in Russian shelling attack A 56-year-old woman has been killed in a Russian shelling attack on Chernihiv, Ukraine's Prosecutor General's Office has said. "Enemy troops shelled the village of Yanzhulivka of the Semenivska of the Novgorod-Siversky district with the use of barrel artillery," it said on Facebook. "A 56-year-old local woman died. Two residential buildings were damaged." More than two million children forced to flee Ukraine since start of war More than two million children have been forced to flee Ukraine since the start of the war, according to UNICEF. Another million children have been displaced within the war torn country, it added. The astounding figures come as part of a report by the charity ahead of World Refugee Day. "For more than a decade, the number of children forced to flee their homes has risen at an alarming rate, and our global capacity to respond remains under serious strain," said UNICEF executive director Catherine Russell."The increase is in step with the consistent onslaught of conflict, crises and climate disasters around the world."But it also highlights many governments' underwhelming response to ensure every refugee and internally displaced child can keep learning, stay healthy and develop to their full potential." In pictures Sewing shop staff work to create bulletproof vests for Russian soldiers In Simferopol, Crimea, people have been creating bulletproof vests for Russian soldiers. In a repurposed sewing shop, employees have been producing the clothing for Russian troops serving in Ukraine. Crimea was illegally taken by Moscow in 2014 and Ukraine has previously vowed to fight to take it back. Dam attack has caused 'dire humanitarian crisis' in flooded communities Last week, Ukraine's Nova Kakhovka dam was destroyed in an attack neither side has taken responsibility for. The breach on the morning of 6 June unleashed a mass of water down the Dnipro River and flooded towns and villages on both sides, causing thousands to flee their homes. It was described as one of the most damaging events of the war so far, and now the United Nations Ukraine has said it has caused a "dire humanitarian crisis" within the flooded Ukrainian government has asked the UN to launch a "post-disaster needs assessment that will look in depth at the long-term implications" of the attack, the authority said on Twitter. Air raid alert issued across Ukraine An air raid alert has been issued across the whole of Ukraine in the last few moments. "An air alert has been announced in Ukraine. Stay safe," the country's state emergency service has map based on data from the Ministry for Communities and Territories Development of Ukraine showed where the sirens had been sounded. Global weapons stockpiles are 'diminished' and the UK cannot produce what Ukraine needs, says defence minister A defence minister admitted that weapon stockpiles globally are "diminished" and the UK alone does not have the manufacturing capability and the necessary supply chains to produce the weapons needed by Ukraine. Making an intervention during James Heappey's speech, Labour former minister Wayne David asked him if he was "absolutely confident" that the UK had the means to provide Ukraine with the weaponry. Mr Heappey replied "Not solely in the UK, no. I don't think that's a surprise for anybody, but I think collectively around the donor community, yes." He added "It is also true that after 18 months of me and my colleagues travelling around the world buying up all of this stuff, stockpiles globally are diminished." "It's a good time to get into the defence industry and the UK-based defence companies are clearly responding to that demand signal as you would expect them to," he said. Ukrainian forces have liberated at least four villages - and they'll continue to make progress, say Western officials Ukrainian forces have liberated at least four villages and 7km of land, with "intense fighting now ongoing in nearly all sectors of the front", Western officials have said. It comes after Ukraine launched its much-anticipated counteroffensive, which has seen fierce fighting ensue along the frontline and some areas of southern Ukraine. The Western officials said while it is "extremely early days" in the operation, they still believe "momentum is with the Ukrainians". They added that it is "still early to say" whether the counteroffensive is or isn't being successful. "They're on the attack now. So this is much more than probing. These are full-scale movements of armour and heavy equipment into the Russian security zone and going forwards," they said. "Progress is slow because of the minefields and the obstacles which they're coming across, but this is as we'd expect. "They'll continue to make progress." However, they added that Russian forces have "generally put up a good defence" and have been falling back between tactical lines. "This manoeuvre defence approach is proving challenging for the Ukrainians and also costly to attacking forces, hence the advance at the moment has been slow," the Western officials said. Russian soldiers' corpses line road into liberated Ukrainian village The road into a newly liberated village has been lined with the corpses of Russian soldiers and burnt-out armoured vehicles. The grisly scenes into Storozheve in Donetsk bear witness to the ferocity of fighting as Ukrainian troops mount their counteroffensive and reclaim several which we have decided not to share due to their sensitive nature, show some dead Russian soldiers laying on dusty ground, or crumpled in nearby grass and fields. Ukrainian troops liberated the village three days ago, after it was captured by Moscow in March last year. A soldier said around 50 Russian soldiers had been killed in a "mopping-up operation" and four were taken prisoner. What should we make of Lukashenko's nuclear weapons comments? Analysis by Diana Magnay, Moscow correspondent It is perhaps not worth reading too much into Lukashenko's declarations - whether the weapons are there already, or not, or are coming in drips and drabs, just how powerful they are and that he'd use them if he had fact of the matter is, it is not up to is up to Vladimir Putin who said last week they should be in situ by 7 or 8 July once storage facilities are in deal has always been that Russia and Russia alone would have control over any deployment, just as the United States retains firing rights - heaven forbid - over its nuclear weapons situated in is what Russia signed up to under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty NPT - that nuclear powers must prevent non-nuclear states from acquiring Lukashenko enjoys a camera in his face and the feeling of power that nuclear weapons on his turf may in reality, it is a mark of his diminished sovereignty that Russia should choose to store any part of its nuclear arsenal on Belarusian soil, as though it were an extension of its own. Ukraine still in the early days of its counteroffensive, says NATO boss Ukraine is still in the early days of its counteroffensive, NATO's secretary general has said. The highly anticipated operation officially got underway at the end of last week, with troops engaged in intense fighting along the front line. Speaking at a news conference, Jens Stoltenberg said "We do not know if this will be a turning point in the war... the more gains Ukraine makes, the stronger their hand will be at the negotiating table." He also called for the 31-member military alliance to do more in terms of standardising ammunitions and equipment. "Since last fall, we have been working on how to ramp up defence production. Standardisation is a core responsibility of NATO... we need to do more," he added.