At least three people were killed in the assault on the capital, and at least one died and 10 were wounded in a separate strike in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.

According to Ukraine’s Air Force, air defenses intercepted two ballistic missiles over Kyiv Oblast. Additionally, 24 drones were destroyed over Poltava, Sumy, Kharkiv, Cherkasy, Chernihiv, Kyiv, Khmelnytskyi,

Ukraine has denied Russian claims that they have captured a key town in the eastern Donetsk region, but admitted that the situation looks desperate. Russia claimed control of the eastern town of Kurakhove on Monday, after months of heavy fighting. The town has been decimated by continuous Russian shelling.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said the soldiers were captured in the western Kursk region, where Ukraine has been fighting to hold on to territory it seized last summer.