Ukraine war HIGHLIGHTS: Russian missiles hit Sloviansk, Donetsk Oblast

Ukraine's national football team played its first game since the invasion by Russia on Wednesday, beating German club Borussia Moenchengladbach 2-1 in a friendly organised to raise funds for victims of the conflict.

Thousands of spectators waved Ukrainian flags and joined the players in relaying a message of support to a country that came under attack from Russia on February 24.

"This match is very important, for our team and for our country," said former Ukraine international Andriy Voronin, who was commentating on the match for German TV channel ProSieben.

"We feel that we're not alone, the whole world is behind us."

Ukraine’s top prosecutor disclosed plans Wednesday for the first war crimes trial of a captured Russian soldier, as fighting raged in the east and south and the Kremlin entertained the possibility of annexing a corner of the country it seized early in the invasion.

Prosecutor General Iryna Venediktova said her office charged Sgt. Vadin Shyshimarin, 21, in the killing of an unarmed 62-year-old civilian who was gunned down while riding a bicycle in February, four days into the war.

Separatists in Donetsk on Wednesday celebrated the eighth anniversary of self-proclaimed independence from Ukraine.

Bolivian President Luis Arce has announced that he will not participate in next month's Summit of the Americas in the United States if Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela are excluded from the gathering.

Ukraine halt on Russia gas transit cuts key pipeline's inflow in Germany by 25 per cent, reports news agency AFP.

Kremlin-installed occupation authorities in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region plan to ask President Vladimir Putin to become part of Russia, Tass reported Wednesday, the first public sign that he may seek to annex territory taken in the invasion.

According to Sloviansk Mayor Vadym Lyakh, Russian missiles have hit two districts of the city on May 11.

Russian forces continued their assault on the Azovstal steel plant where the city's last defenders are holed up. According to reports, at least 100 civilians were still trapped inside.

Ukraine has halted Russian gas flows through a key transit point, while Kyiv claimed battlefield gains over invading Russian forces.

The United Nations General Assembly elected the Czech Republic to the Human Rights Council on May 10 to replace Russia.

Russia was behind a massive cyberattack against a satellite internet network that took tens of thousands of modems offline at the onset of Russia-Ukraine war.

The US House of Representatives approved more than $40 billion more aid for Ukraine.

The UN Security Council will hold a meeting on the humanitarian situation in Ukraine on May 12, says reports.

Ukraine said its forces had recaptured villages from Russian troops north and northeast of the city of Kharkiv, pressing a counter-offensive.