Russian forces continued striking Ukraine on Monday, with reported civilian casualties in several regions. In the Mykolaivka area of Sumy region, two Russian attack drones hit a residential sector, killing a man whose body was recovered from the rubble and seriously injuring his wife. One house was destroyed and five others were damaged, according to regional authorities.
In Kharkiv region, a strike on Iziум killed one person and injured at least 27 others, including a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy, Ukrainian police said. Another drone attack in Mala Danylivka killed an employee of a specialized transport company after two FPV drones struck transport trucks.
A Russian airstrike on Sloviansk, in Donetsk region, killed a 68-year-old woman and wounded six people. Local authorities said two FAB-250 bombs hit the city centre, with one striking a residential building. Nine residential buildings, a postal agency, a healthcare facility, a shop and several vehicles were also damaged.
In Zaporizhzhia region, an attack on Komyshuvakha killed at least one person and wounded two others. Ukrainian authorities also reported that a Russian strike in Kherson region wounded two people after a drone attacked a car in the Korabelny district of Kherson.
Ukraine’s Air Force said Russia launched 193 drones overnight from Sunday to Monday, including decoy drones without explosive charges. Ukrainian air defences claimed to have shot down or neutralised 154 of them.
The attacks also affected Ukraine’s energy system. The Ukrainian Energy Ministry said Russian forces had targeted energy, oil and gas infrastructure 94 times during the previous week, causing 208 cases of destruction or damage. Ukrenergo reported power cuts in nine regions, while emergency restrictions were introduced in some areas because of the difficult situation in the energy sector. The ministry described conditions in Dnipropetrovsk and Kyiv regions as particularly critical.
The Energy Ministry reported that one energy-sector employee was wounded in Kharkiv region and another was killed in an attack on Kramatorsk, in Donetsk region.
A humanitarian ceasefire in Olechky, a city under Russian occupation in Kherson region, ended on Sunday. Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow had no similar plan for another humanitarian pause, while stating that the population’s interests, security and humanitarian assistance would remain priorities in individual situations. Ukrainian authorities said Russian attacks resumed after the truce and accused Russian forces of using the pause to reinforce their positions.
According to Ukraine’s general staff, humanitarian supplies reached Olechky and nearly 800 people who wanted to leave were able to reach Ukrainian-controlled territory during the ceasefire. Melania Trump said the pause had allowed essential aid to be delivered and described the evacuation effort as successful.
Separately, the Council of Europe said Russia’s withdrawal from the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture took effect on Sunday. The convention provides for inspections of detention facilities. Alain Mitchell, president of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture, said the withdrawal ended independent monitoring of places of detention in Russia. The committee also said it had received allegations of torture and mistreatment in Russian detention facilities, including in occupied Ukrainian territories.
Russia also temporarily banned exports of several petrochemical products, including benzene, toluene, orthoxylene, paraxylene and phenol. The measure is intended to ensure supplies for Russian industry and will last three months, with members of the Eurasian Economic Union exempted.
Both countries reported cyberattacks affecting public warning applications. Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry said its mobile application had been subjected to a mass cyberattack that allowed false information to be distributed. Earlier, Ukraine’s Air Force said its official application for alerts about Russian air raids had been hacked. Neither side immediately identified the perpetrator of the attack on its application, while a Ukrainian communications centre blamed Moscow for the incident affecting its service.
Sources: Le Monde International.