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Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky visits the frontline in eastern Ukraine near Avdiivka, a day before the military announced that two Ukrainian soldiers were killed in clashes with Russian-backed separatists, testing a ceasefire brokered last year that had brought relative calm to the simmering trench conflict. 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
Ukrainian rescue services trawl through the smoking rubble left after a Russia strike on the port city of Mykolaiv near the Black Sea. "Russians hit the city centre. A garage and a 3-story residential building are on fire," Mykolaiv governor Vitaliy Kim wrote on Telegram. Eighteen people had been wounded and nine of them had been hospitalised, including five children, he added, without specifying their condition or if they had been in the residential building. IMAGES ++ TEXT 33PB89B
Images show a Ukrainian air defence system working during a strike on Kyiv overnight. Ukraine said on Tuesday that it had downed an entire barrage of Russian drones and missiles, including six hypersonic missiles, just hours ahead of a visit by a Chinese special envoy. Posting on Twitter, Defence Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said "another unbelievable success for the Ukrainian Air Forces! Last night, our sky defenders shot down SIX russian hypersonic Kinzhal missiles and 12 other missiles". The statement comes just over a week after Ukraine said it had downed its first Kinzhal hypersonic missile. IMAGES
Images released by the National Police of Ukraine in Kharkiv region show policemen and rescuers pulling a victim out of the rubble after a strike in Kupiansk. No information about whether she is alive or dead was provided. "So far, we know about the dead employee of the museum and ten wounded. There are still people under the rubble," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky wrote on Telegram after the strike occurred. IMAGES
Ukrainians clear away debris left after a Russian missile hit a school in the eastern city of Kramatorsk overnight. IMAGES
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