Among the dead was a girl called Polina, who was in her final year of primary school in the capital Kyiv. According to Kyiv’s local authority, she and her parents were shot dead by a Russian sabotage and reconnaissance group on a street in the north-west of the capital Polina’s brother and sister were taken to hospital. Her sister was in intensive care and her brother was taken to a separate children’s hospital. Several other civilians have died. A seven-year-old girl died in an attack on a kindergarten and 10 members of Ukraine’s ethnic Greek community were killed when their villages came under fire in the south. In other news: * A Russian missile has struck a residential building in Chernihiv, according to the National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrinform). One report says that the lower two floors of the building are currently on fire. No casualties have yet been reported. * Shelling has resumed in Kyiv and Kharkiv, according to The National News Agency of Ukraine (Ukrinform). After several hours of quiet in the Ukrainian capital, explosions were heard once again in Kyiv and Kharviv on Monday morning, Ukrinform said, citing the Ukrainian Special Service. Meanwhile, an air alarm has been sounded in Chernihiv, in the country’s north. * The southern Ukrainian coastal city of Berdyansk is now in Russian control, according to its mayor. Russian troops entered the city around 3.50pm local time on Sunday, and were seen roaming the city’s centre shortly after, Mayor Alexander Svidlo said in a Facebook video. The soldiers entered city hall at 8pm. The Russians, he said, “informed us that all administrative buildings were under their control and that they were taking control of the executive committee building”. “But under the control of armed men, I consider this proposal unacceptable. So we, as all members of the operational headquarters, left the building of the executive committee,” he said. The city on the Black Sea contains a small naval base and is home to about 100,000 Ukrainians.
