The mayor of Kharkiv said that at least 3 drones hit populated areas of his city and 1 drone destroyed 2 floors of a dormitory. Ihor Terekhov wrote on Telegram: “A fire broke out and emergency services are attending. Details on casualties are being clarified”.

Ukraine’s interior minister has claimed an attempt to cross into the country on its northern border in the Chernihiv region by a Russian saboteur group has been foiled.

The Russian ministry of defence claims it repelled a unmanned boat drone attack on 2 of its ships in the Black Sea fleet – the Sergey Kotov and the Vasily Bykov.

Valery Gerasimov, the chief of the general staff of Russia’s armed forces, has visited Russian troops in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region, part of which is occupied by Russia.

Denis Pushilin, the Russian-imposed acting governor of occupied Donetsk, has said the village of Staromaiorske remains hotly contested between Russian and Ukrainian forces.

At least 6 people, including a 10-year-old child, have been killed and more than 80 people are now known to have been injured after Russia struck a high-rise apartment in Kryvyi Rih. Oleksiy Kuleba, the deputy head of Volodymyr Zelensky’s office, called for revenge, saying: “Every day, Ukrainian cities are under fire from Russian terrorists.” He said targeting civilians was a sign of “the despair and defeat of the Russian Federation at the front”.

Ukraine and Croatia have agreed on the possibility of using Croatian ports on the Danube and the Adriatic Sea for the export of Ukrainian grain, Ukraine’s foreign minister Dmytro Kuleba said after talks with his Croatian counterpart on Monday, according to Reuters.

Russian airstrikes destroyed an estimated 180,000 metric tonnes of grain crops in the space of 9 days this month, the Ukrainian foreign ministry said.

Ukrainian forces have recaptured nearly 15 sq km of land from Russian troops in the east and south over the past week during their counteroffensive, a senior defence official said on Monday. Kyiv’s forces have now retaken 204.7 sq km in the south since they launched a major push back against Russian forces early last month, deputy defence minister Hanna Maliar said on Telegram.