Rubio repeats call that Ukraine war ‘needs to end’ after call with Russia’s Lavrov – Europe live

… and on that note, it’s a wrap for today!

Several European countries, including Germany ( 14:50 ), the Netherlands ( 15:22 ) and Norway ( 14:02 ), and the European Union ( 13:19 ) have summoned the heads of the Russian diplomatic missions to protest over Moscow’s warning suggesting further strikes on Kyiv.

Mocking the EU’s response insisting that its diplomats would remain in Kyiv, the former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said “they have got diplomats to spare” ( 17:59 ).

Separately, the European Commission’s president, Ursula von der Leyen, warned that Moscow was seeking to “destabilise” Europe, as she appeared alongside the three Baltic presidents in a show of solidarity with the region amid Russian threats ( 14:56 , 15:00 , 15:20 ).

An investigation is under way after four people, including two children, were killed when a school minibus collided with a train in northern Belgium ( 11:28 , 11:41 , 11:46 , 12:31 , 12:49 ).

Seven people have died in France in an extreme early-summer heat event that is affecting a swathe of western Europe, as France and the UK set record highs for May and temperatures were forecast to rise further on Tuesday.

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