After a massive Russian air strike on Monday, parts of Kyiv experienced power and water supply disruptionssaid the city’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, via the messaging app Telegram. Ukraine’s largest private energy producer, DTEK, announced an emergency power shutdown following the attacks.

Air raid alerts were in place across Ukraine early Monday morning due to the threat of a massive Russian missile and drone attack.the Ukrainian military said after several waves of drone attacks overnight. The Ukrainian Air Force said it had recorded the shooting down of several missiles aimed at the country and dozens of drones that threatened the entire Ukraine, Reuters reports.

According to regional authorities, at least three people were killed. Casualties were reported from the regions of western Lutsk, eastern Dnipro and southern Zaporizhia.

Explosions rang out in central Kyiv as the Air Force informed Ukrainians that Russia had eleven TU-95 strategic bombers in the air and confirmed the launch of several missiles.Outside the Ukrainian capital, Reuters reporters heard the sound of air defense systems attacking targets.

Ukraine on Sunday called on Belarus to withdraw a significant portion of Belarusian forces and equipment stationed on the common border.. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry warned Belarus against making “tragic mistakes” under pressure from Moscow. The ministry said that among the troops on the border were Belarusian special forces and former Wagner mercenaries. The statement said their equipment includes tanks, artillery, air defense systems and engineering equipment and that Ukraine “has never taken and will not take unfriendly actions against the Belarusian people.” In 2022, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko allowed Russian troops to deploy in Belarus in what Russia and Belarus called “exercises” before launching their invasion of Ukraine in February of the same year.

A British man working for the Reuters news agency was killed in an attack on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kramatorsk, the news agency said.Ryan Evans, who worked as a security adviser for the agency, was killed when a missile hit the Sapphire Hotel on Saturday, where he was staying as part of a six-person team. Two journalists from the agency were being treated in hospital; one of them was seriously injured, it said. Evans, a former British soldier, had worked for Reuters since 2022, advising its journalists on security issues around the world, including in Ukraine, Israel and at the Paris Olympics.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said the hotel was hit by a Russian Iskander missile, a ballistic missile that can strike up to 500 kilometers away.“An ordinary city hotel was destroyed by the Russian Iskander,” he said in his evening address on Sunday, adding that the attack was “absolutely targeted and well thought out … My condolences to family and friends.” Russia has been bombing hotels in frontline areas for over a year.

Ukrainian forces advanced up to three kilometers into the Russian Kursk region and took control of two more settlements there.Zelensky also said in his evening speech.

Russia launched attacks on northern, eastern and southern Ukraine on Sunday, killing at least four people and wounding 37, the Ukrainian military and local authorities said.The overnight attacks targeted the Ukrainian frontline regions of Chernihiv, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk, the Ukrainian Air Force said via the messaging app Telegram. “Most of the missiles did not reach their targets,” the Air Force said.

Former US President Donald Trump signalled his support for Ukraine in a conversation with Selenskyj and said he wanted to end the war with Russiathe Ukrainian president told Indian reporters in an interview published on his social media channel on Sunday.