It’s simply previous 1pm in Ukraine. Here’s what you may need missed:

• Authorities in Kyiv have banned massive public occasions and gatherings forward of Ukraine‘s thirty first anniversary on Wednesday of independence from Russian-dominated Soviet rule, reviews Reuters. Folks within the capital will be unable to satisfy up in huge teams from Monday till Thursday because of the potential of rocket assaults, in accordance with a doc revealed by the Kyiv army administration signed by its head Mykola Zhyrnov. It comes after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy had warned of the chance of extra extreme assaults forward of the celebration.

• Russia’s ongoing warfare with Ukraine shouldn’t be going the way in which that Vladimir Putin hoped, the previous head of the British Military has mentioned. Gen Lord Richard Dannatt informed Kay Burley on Sky Information that Russian forces have needed to “recalibrate” what they’re doing as they’ve been unable to acquire a swift victory over the Ukrainian army. He mentioned: I believe the warfare has panned out utterly in another way to what Vladimir Putin imagined. That is most likely his worst situation, his nightmare situation.”

• Russian shelling within the Donetsk Oblast in jap Ukraine has killed two folks, in accordance with the area’s governor. Pavlo Kyrylenko mentioned they have been killed within the settlements of Georgievka and Kostiantynivka, in accordance with a put up on Twitter.

• Russia is discovering it troublesome to inspire and add “auxiliary forces” to its common troops within the Donbas, the newest British intelligence replace mentioned. On 15 August 22, Ukrainian social media channels circulated a video, which allegedly confirmed components from a army unit of the self-proclaimed Luhansk Folks’s Republic (LPR) refusing to be a part of an offensive operation, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) mentioned. The fighters claimed they’d already fulfilled their responsibility by gaining management over the Luhansk Oblast and didn’t need to combat within the neighbouring Donetsk area – regardless of threats from commanders, the replace mentioned.

• Russian artillery hearth as soon as once more pounded the Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol in a single day, in accordance with Ukrainian officers. Regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko mentioned Russian forces struck the three districts of Nikopol, Kryvoriz, and Synelnykiv near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. “Nikopol was shelled with ‘Grad’ and barrel artillery 3 times in the course of the evening. 42 Russian shells flew into the residential quarters,” he mentioned in a Telegram replace early this morning.

• Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile assaults to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday. The nation’s army warned that Russia had put 5 cruise missile-bearing warships and submarines within the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence programs in Belarus. Giant gatherings have been banned in Kyiv for 4 days from Monday. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that “Russia might attempt to do one thing notably ugly, one thing notably vicious” this week because the nation celebrates its thirty first anniversary of independence.

• Russian missiles hit targets close to Odesa, Ukrainian officers mentioned. 5 Russian Kalibr cruise missiles have been fired from the Black Sea on the area, the regional administration spokesperson mentioned on Monday, citing info from the southern army command. Two have been shot down by Ukrainian air defences and three hit agricultural targets, however there have been no casualties. Russia mentioned on Sunday the missiles had destroyed an ammunition depot containing missiles for US-made Himars rockets, whereas Kyiv mentioned a granary had been hit.

• Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, is planning to talk together with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week to debate the state of affairs on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the warfare in Ukraine, Russian state media company RIA Novosti cites a diplomatic supply as saying.

• The daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin was killed by a automotive bomb on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday evening. Darya Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped aside by a robust explosion about 12 miles (20km) west of the capital close to the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at about 9.30pm native time (1930 BST), in accordance with investigators.

• A former member of Russia’s Duma has claimed that Russian partisans have been allegedly behind the automotive bomb assault. Ilya Ponomarev, who was expelled for anti-Kremlin actions, alleged the explosion was the work of the Nationwide Republican Military, which he claimed was an underground group working inside Russia and devoted to overthrowing the Putin regime. “This assault opens a brand new web page in Russian resistance to Putinism,” he mentioned.

• Zelenskiy warned Russia in opposition to placing Ukrainian troopers captured in the course of the siege of Mariupol on trial. “If this despicable court docket takes place, if our individuals are introduced into these settings in violation of all agreements, all worldwide guidelines, there will likely be abuse,” he mentioned in a Sunday night handle. “This would be the line past which no negotiations are potential.”

Daniel Boffey

Daniel Boffey reviews for us from Tallinn:

Father Grigory Borisov provides a prayer for Ukraine daily in a particular liturgy on the Lasnamäe church, a towering, whitewashed place of Russian Orthodox worship within the centre of probably the most populous suburb of Estonia’s capital, Tallinn, the place a majority are Russian audio system.

The Church of the Icon of the Mom of God was inbuilt 2013 with the assistance of funds from a Moscow-based NGO. Whereas in March the Estonian Orthodox church joined different church buildings within the Baltic nation in condemning the bombing of civilians in Ukraine, the church’s chief again in Moscow, Patriarch Kirill, has been accused of offering theological cowl for Vladimir Putin’s warfare.

Borisov, 32, who went to theological faculty in St Petersburg, is treading a skinny line. He says he isn’t permitted to speak about politics and the warfare. However the priest concedes there’s widespread nervousness in his congregation on this economically disadvantaged a part of town. “The psychological well being state of affairs is dangerous – Covid, warfare, the financial state of affairs, the fuel costs. This stuff make folks unhappy and nervous.”

Learn extra right here: ‘I’m at all times wanting over my shoulder’: nervousness amongst Estonia’s Russians

Russia’s ongoing warfare with Ukraine shouldn’t be going the way in which that Vladimir Putin hoped, the previous head of the British Military has mentioned.

Gen Lord Richard Dannatt informed Kay Burley on Sky Information that Russian forces have needed to “recalibrate” what they’re doing as they’ve been unable to acquire a swift victory over the Ukrainian army.

He mentioned:

I believe the warfare has panned out utterly in another way to what Vladimir Putin imagined. That is most likely his worst situation, his nightmare situation.

If we return six months to 24 February… what he had in thoughts and what the worldwide media was anticipating was a lightning strike down from Belarus to Kyiv to topple Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy, change the regime in Kyiv, change the federal government of Ukraine and hey presto, Ukraine would come underneath the management of Russia.

And naturally, that didn’t occur. This meant that the Russians then needed to recalibrate what they have been making an attempt to do.

Shaun Walker

Shaun Walker reviews for us on the six months since Russia invaded Ukraine:

The shock of these first hours of the warfare, when the unthinkable grew to become actuality, is a second that’s seemingly to stick with each Ukrainian for the remainder of their lives.

Within the chaotic first days, occasions moved extremely quick. By the tip of the primary week, the nation had already settled into a brand new actuality during which roads have been dotted with checkpoints run by locals carrying no matter arms they may get their fingers on, mayors strutted round their cities in physique armour organising the defence, and households endured separation from their family members, as hundreds of thousands of girls and kids rushed to security overseas.

Break up-second selections might imply life or dying. Folks whose pals had mocked them in earlier weeks for hoarding meals or making escape plans have been now hailed as prophets. Numerous households determined to depart Kyiv for the peaceable commuter cities to its west, hoping to take a seat out the anticipated assault on town there, solely to seek out themselves subjected to a month of terror from occupying forces, whereas the centre of the capital remained comparatively unscathed.

Learn extra right here: Six months of hell in Ukraine: how Putin’s loopy warfare reached impasse

It’s 9am in Kyiv and Russia has now been at warfare with Ukraine for six months.

Listed below are the place issues stand this morning:

• Russian artillery hearth as soon as once more pounded the Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol in a single day, in accordance with Ukrainian officers. Regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko mentioned Russian forces struck the three districts of Nikopol, Kryvoriz, and Synelnykiv near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. “Nikopol was shelled with ‘Grad’ and barrel artillery 3 times in the course of the evening. 42 Russian shells flew into the residential quarters,” he mentioned in a Telegram replace early this morning.

• Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile assaults to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday. The nation’s army warned that Russia had put 5 cruise missile-bearing warships and submarines within the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence programs in Belarus. Giant gatherings have been banned in Kyiv for 4 days from Monday. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that “Russia might attempt to do one thing notably ugly, one thing notably vicious” this week because the nation celebrates its thirty first anniversary of independence.

• Russian missiles hit targets close to Odesa, Ukrainian officers mentioned. 5 Russian Kalibr cruise missiles have been fired from the Black Sea on the area, the regional administration spokesperson mentioned on Monday, citing info from the southern army command. Two have been shot down by Ukrainian air defences and three hit agricultural targets, however there have been no casualties. Russia mentioned on Sunday the missiles had destroyed an ammunition depot containing missiles for US-made Himars rockets, whereas Kyiv mentioned a granary had been hit.

• Turkish President, Tayyip Erdogan, is planning to talk together with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week to debate the state of affairs on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the warfare in Ukraine, Russian state media company RIA Novosti cites a diplomatic supply as saying.

• The daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin was killed by a automotive bomb on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday evening. Darya Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped aside by a robust explosion about 12 miles (20km) west of the capital close to the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at about 9.30pm native time (1930 BST), in accordance with investigators.

• A former member of Russia’s Duma has claimed that Russian partisans have been allegedly behind the automotive bomb assault. Ilya Ponomarev, who was expelled for anti-Kremlin actions, alleged the explosion was the work of the Nationwide Republican Military, which he claimed was an underground group working inside Russia and devoted to overthrowing the Putin regime. “This assault opens a brand new web page in Russian resistance to Putinism,” he mentioned.

• Zelenskiy warned Russia in opposition to placing Ukrainian troopers captured in the course of the siege of Mariupol on trial. “If this despicable court docket takes place, if our individuals are introduced into these settings in violation of all agreements, all worldwide guidelines, there will likely be abuse,” he mentioned in a Sunday night handle. “This would be the line past which no negotiations are potential.”

Turkish President, Tayyip Erdoğan, is planning to talk together with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin this week to debate the state of affairs on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant and the warfare in Ukraine, Russian state media company RIA Novosti cites a diplomatic supply as saying.

Erdoğan mentioned that he intends to debate with Putin the outcomes of his talks with Zelenskiy and UN Secretary Common António Guterres in Lviv , in addition to to ask the Russian president to take particular measures to resolve the state of affairs on the Zaporizhzhia plant.

In accordance with RIA Novosti, the supply mentioned:

Sure, such negotiations are anticipated this week. [Putin] outlined the subjects earlier. That is the state of affairs on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear energy plant and the settlement of the Ukrainian disaster typically. Turkey continues to play its trustworthy mediating position on this battle, being the one nation that has received the belief of each side.”

In case you missed this earlier report, here’s a fast recap by the Guardian’s Moscow correspondent, Andrew Roth.

Darya Dugina, the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin, was killed in a automotive bomb on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday evening.

Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped aside by a robust explosion about 12 miles (20km) west of the capital close to the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at about 9.30pm native time (1930 BST), in accordance with investigators.

Distinguished Russian hawks with out proof rapidly blamed Kyiv for the assault, calling it an assassination try and demanding the Kremlin reply by concentrating on authorities officers in Kyiv.

If the automotive bombing is tied to the warfare it will mark the primary time since February that the violence unleashed on Ukraine has reached the Russian capital, touching the household of a Kremlin ally close to one in every of Moscow’s most unique districts.

Kyiv strongly denied the allegations. “Ukraine has completely nothing to do with this, as a result of we aren’t a legal state like Russia, or a terrorist one at that,” Mykhailo Podolyak, an adviser to the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, mentioned in remarks broadcast on tv.

Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile assaults to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday.

The nation’s army warned that Russia had put 5 cruise missile-bearing warships and submarines out within the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence programs in Belarus. Giant gatherings have been banned in Kyiv for 4 days from Monday.

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that “Russia might attempt to do one thing notably nasty, one thing notably merciless” this week because the nation celebrates its thirty first anniversary of independence.

Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, has warned Russia in opposition to placing Ukrainian troopers captured in the course of the siege of Mariupol on trial, claiming it can threat the potential of negotiations.

In his newest video handle, president Volodymyr Zelenskiy mentioned that if the “absurd and disgusting trial” of Ukrainian troopers takes place in Mariupol it can remove the potential of talks with Russia.

If this despicable court docket takes place, if our individuals are introduced into these settings in violation of all agreements, all worldwide guidelines, there will likely be abuse.

This would be the line past which no negotiations are potential.”

Artillery shells rained down on the Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol, near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant.

Nikopol was shelled on 5 totally different events, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko mentioned in an replace on Telegram.

He mentioned 25 artillery shells hit town, inflicting a hearth at an industrial premises and chopping energy to three,000 folks.

The Russians fired 25 shells from barrel artillery at Nikopol. The shelling triggered a extreme hearth on the enterprise – the hearth destroyed the tools.

Within the metropolis, a faculty was mutilated, one home was destroyed, and two dozen others have been broken. Fuel furnaces and energy traces are out of order. Greater than 3,000 Nikopol residents are with out electrical energy. Emergency groups are working.”

Good day and welcome again to the Guardian’s stay protection of the warfare in Ukraine.

I’m Samantha Lock and I will likely be bringing you all the newest developments for the subsequent brief whereas. Whether or not you’ve been following our protection in a single day otherwise you’ve simply dropped in, listed below are the newest traces.

Repeated shelling has rocked the southern Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol, situated close to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, its governor has mentioned.

Zelenskiy warned Moscow in opposition to going forward with the trial of captured Ukrainian troopers in his newest nationwide handle.

It’s 7.30am in Ukraine. Right here is all the pieces you may need missed:

• Ukraine is bracing itself for an intensification of Russian missile assaults to coincide with its independence day on Wednesday. The nation’s army warned that Russia had put 5 cruise missile-bearing warships and submarines within the Black Sea and that Moscow was positioning air defence programs in Belarus. Giant gatherings have been banned in Kyiv for 4 days from Monday. Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskiy warned that “Russia might attempt to do one thing notably ugly, one thing notably vicious” this week because the nation celebrates its thirty first anniversary of independence.

• Artillery shells have rained down on the Ukrainian metropolis of Nikopol, near the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant. Nikopol was shelled on 5 totally different events, regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko wrote on Telegram. He mentioned 25 artillery shells hit town, inflicting a hearth at an industrial premises and chopping energy to three,000 folks.

• Russian missiles hit targets close to Odesa, Ukrainian officers mentioned. 5 Russian Kalibr cruise missiles have been fired from the Black Sea on the area, the regional administration spokesperson mentioned on Monday, citing info from the southern army command. Two have been shot down by Ukrainian air defences and three hit agricultural targets, however there have been no casualties. Russia mentioned on Sunday the missiles had destroyed an ammunition depot containing missiles for US-made Himars rockets, whereas Kyiv mentioned a granary had been hit.

• The daughter of an ultranationalist Russian ideologue and ally of Vladimir Putin was killed by a automotive bomb on the outskirts of Moscow on Saturday evening. Darya Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped aside by a robust explosion about 12 miles (20km) west of the capital close to the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at about 9.30pm native time (1930 BST), in accordance with investigators.

• A former member of Russia’s Duma has claimed that Russian partisans have been allegedly behind the automotive bomb assault. Ilya Ponomarev, who was expelled for anti-Kremlin actions, alleged the explosion was the work of the Nationwide Republican Military, which he claimed was an underground group working inside Russia and devoted to overthrowing the Putin regime. “This assault opens a brand new web page in Russian resistance to Putinism,” he mentioned.

• Zelenskiy warned Russia in opposition to placing Ukrainian troopers captured in the course of the siege of Mariupol on trial. “If this despicable court docket takes place, if our individuals are introduced into these settings in violation of all agreements, all worldwide guidelines, there will likely be abuse,” he mentioned in a Sunday night handle. “This would be the line past which no negotiations are potential.”

• The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and the US urged army restraint across the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine. In a cellphone name, the 4 leaders additionally referred to as for a “fast go to” to the nuclear web site by unbiased inspectors of the Worldwide Atomic Power Company, in accordance with German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s spokesperson.

• 4 extra ships carrying meals left Ukraine’s ports, Turkey’s defence ministry mentioned, bringing the entire variety of vessels to depart Ukraine’s Black Sea ports underneath a UN-brokered grain export deal to 31.