At least 10 people have been killed after a strike which hit a restaurant in Kramatorsk on Ukraine’s Donetsk region. The dead included at least 3 children, and more than 60 people are said to have been wounded. Emergency services said 7 people had been rescued from under the rubble.
Oleh Synyehubov, governor of Kharkiv, reports that a 70-year-old woman was injured in shelling in the Kupiansk district.
Ukraine’s air force has reported that overnight it destroyed 6 “Shahed” drones. 2 drones were shot down over Cherkasy region, but 2 more hit an empty warehouse in the region, it said.
Ukraine’s defence minister says Ukrainian forces have made “certain gains” that have not been made public and that the bulk of its troops reserves have yet to be deployed. Oleksiy Reznikov told the Financial Times the retaking of small villages from Russian occupation in recent weeks were “not the main event” in Kyiv’s planned attack.
Lithuania’s president, Gitanas Nausėda, has confirmed that his country is to supply Ukraine with 2 Nasams launchers. Nausėda is visiting Kyiv on Wednesday ahead of travelling to an EU summit later in the week.
Ukraine’s government reprimanded Vitali Klitschko, Kyiv’s mayor, as city officials faced criticism over the state of bomb shelters after the deaths of three people locked out on the street during a Russian air raid. The government said it had also approved the dismissal of the heads of two Kyiv districts and two acting heads of districts, Reuters reported. It was not immediately clear whether Klitschko, a former boxer, would face any further action.