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The live blog is now closed. Thank you for joining us. Here are the updates for July 6:
- Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, who last month brokered a deal to end Wagner’s armed mutiny in Russia, says the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is no longer in Belarus, as was widely believed, but rather in St Petersburg.
- Five people were killed in a Russian missile attack on a residential area in the western city of Lviv, according to Ukraine’s interior minister.
- Russia to expel Finnish diplomats and close a consulate in St Petersburg in what it calls a tit-for-tat move after Helsinki chose to boot Russian diplomats accused of spying.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy arrived in Bulgaria for talks that are to include Kyiv’s push to join NATO. He is expected to visit Turkey on Friday.