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A senior UN official condemns Russia for its "appalling assaults" on Ukraine which saw some 158 missiles launched, killing at least 30 people according to Kyiv. "Regrettably, today's appalling assaults were only the latest in a series of escalating attacks by the Russian Federation," says UN assistant secretary-general Mohamed Khiari. SOUNDBITE
The UN considers that there is a "strong probability" that the children's hospital in Kyiv was hit by a "direct hit" from a Russian missile, according to the representative of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Ukraine, who speaks remotly during a UN press briefing in Geneva. SOUNDBITE
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk hold a minute of silence at a joint press conference in Warsaw for the victims of Monday's deadly barrage of Russian strikes. They also sign a bilateral security deal, ahead of Zelensky's trip to the NATO summit in Washington. IMAGES
Smoke rises from damaged buildings in Kyiv after Russia launched dozens of missiles in a rare day-time barrage targeting several Ukrainian cities, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. IMAGES
Smoke rises from a Kharkiv hardware store, which Russia bombed on Saturday, killing at least two people and injuring over 20, in an attack condemned as "vile" by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The city of Kharkiv, Ukraine's second largest, regularly comes under attack from Russian missiles, with strikes on the city killing at least seven people on Thursday. IMAGES
Explosions ring out and smoke rises in the area of Ocheretyne, a village in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region which, according to observers, is now mostly controlled by Russian forces. On Sunday, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces said the situation on the frontline had "worsened", with Moscow's troops making a number of notable gains. IMAGES