Russia-Ukraine live news: Moscow orders units to step up attacks

By Umut Uras and Hamza Mohamed

Published On 16 Jul 202216 Jul 2022

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• Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu orders units to step up operations to prevent strikes on Russian-controlled areas.
• A Russian missile attack on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro has killed three and injured 15, according to the regional governor.

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• 38 minutes ago (19:48 GMT)Biden invites UAE president to USUS President Joe Biden invited his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, to visit Washington, a friendly gesture after months of strained ties over the Ukraine war.“We both understand that the challenges we face today only make it a heck of a lot more important that we spend more time together. And I want to formally invite you to the States,” Biden said after the two men met on the sidelines of a gathering of Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia.Yousef al-Otaiba, the Emirati ambassador to the US, admitted in March that relations with Washington were going through a “stress test”.He was speaking days after the UAE abstained in a UN Security Council vote on a resolution demanding a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine.
• an hour ago (19:13 GMT)Canada: Russian presence at G20 meeting ‘absurd’Canada says Russia’s participation in a meeting of G20 finance ministers that was overshadowed by its invasion of Ukraine was “absurd”.“Russia’s presence at this meeting was like inviting an arsonist to a meeting of firefighters,” Canadian Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.“That is because Russia is directly and solely responsible for the illegal invasion of Ukraine, and its economic consequences, which are being felt by us all.”Freeland, who is also Canada’s deputy prime minister and of Ukrainian heritage, added, “We were clear and explicit that Russia’s participation was inappropriate and frankly, just absurd.”
• 2h ago (18:11 GMT)Ukraine: Russia shelling Nikopol, Dnipro from captured nuclear plantUkraine’s atomic energy agency says Russia is using Europe’s largest nuclear power plant to store weapons and shell the surrounding regions of Nikopol and Dnipro that were hit on Saturday.Petro Kotin, president of Ukrainian nuclear agency Energoatom, called the situation at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant “extremely tense” with up to 500 Russian soldiers controlling the plant.The plant in southeast Ukraine has been under Russian control since the early weeks of Moscow’s invasion, though it is still operated by Ukrainian staff.“The occupiers bring their machinery there, including missile systems, from which they already shell the other side of the river Dnieper and the territory of Nikopol,” he said in a Ukrainian television interview.
• 3h ago (17:33 GMT)Ukraine doctors see spike in brain injuries and PTSDDoctors in Ukraine say they are concerned about the trauma soldiers are being exposed to on the war’s front lines.They are seeing a significant spike in serious brain injuries and post-traumatic stress cases.But the best the doctors can do at the moment is patch them up and send them back.Al Jazeera’s Alan Fisher reports from the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine.https://www.youtube.com/embed/yk3uGlbppRE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent 
• 3h ago (17:02 GMT)‘I saw a small child all covered in blood’: Dnipro residentDnipro resident recounts the aftermath of a Russian missile attack that left at least three people killed and 15 others injured late on Friday.“When the