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In Kyiv, a curfew comes into force again due to the Russian shelling.
At least eight people were killed in an attack on a shopping mall in the Ukrainian capital.
Russia claims the building was a weapons storage facility and announces it will deploy more hypersonic missiles.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy does not want to accept any ultimatums from Moscow.
Germany plans not only to supply Ukraine with more weapons, but also to play a leading role in the EU's rapid reaction force.
The developments at a glance.
military situation
On the 26th day of the Russian war of aggression, shelling of Ukrainian cities continues.
At least eight people have been killed in an attack on a shopping center
in the
capital Kiev .
This was announced by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office.
Mayor Vitali Klitschko announced another curfew.
It should apply from Monday evening 8 p.m. local time to Wednesday morning 7 a.m.
"I call on everyone to stay at home or in shelters if the alarm goes off," said Klitschko.
Russia said in the afternoon it had fired long-range, high-precision missiles at a shopping center used by the Ukrainian armed forces as an arms storage facility.
According to Ukrainian sources, the Russian army
fired on demonstrators in the city of
Cherson , which it occupied.
"In Kherson, Russian war criminals opened fire on unarmed people who were peacefully protesting against the invaders," Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweeted on Monday.
"This is the ugly face of Russia, a disgrace to humanity." The information could not be independently verified.
Kuleba released a video to accompany his tweet, showing an elderly man wearing a bracelet in the colors of the Ukrainian national flag with gunshot wounds.
According to the city administration, a first attack is reported
from a suburb of the port city of
Odessa on the Black Sea.
A residential building was damaged by Russian shelling in the morning.
There are no fatalities.
A fire also broke out.
On Sunday, the city registered the increasing use of Russian drones over and around the city.
negotiator of
Ukraine and Russia have agreed a new round of negotiations via video link for Monday.
So far, no information has been made public about the negotiations.
humanitarian situation
According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), at least
925 civilians
have been killed in Ukraine since the start of the war.
In addition, at least 1,496 were injured.
A much higher number of unreported cases can be assumed, since reports of many deaths in embattled cities could not be verified.
According to information from Kiev,
at least 115 children are among the dead.
In addition, more than 140 children have been injured so far, the Attorney General said.
Most of the victims were in Kyiv.
Eight escape corridors for civilians are to be set up on Monday for the contested areas in the country.
Deputy Prime Minister Irina Vereshchuk said the corridors would be used for evacuation buses and for the delivery of relief supplies.
People are to be brought from the area around the besieged port city of Mariupol to the south-eastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia.
An evacuation closer to the capital is therefore planned from the contested locations north and east of Kyiv.
That says Kyiv
According to its President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine will not accept any Russian ultimatums.
An occupation of cities like Kyiv, Mariupol or Kharkiv by Russian troops is also unacceptable, Zelenskyj said in an interview.
Kyiv accuses the Russian army of an increasingly brutal approach.
The situation in Mariupol in particular remains catastrophic. According to local information, an art school there with 400 people seeking protection was the target of a bomb attack.
The building was said to have been destroyed.
People are still under the rubble.
Women, children and the elderly would have sought protection there.
Moscow says so
Russia's military has announced further attacks with the hypersonic missile "Kinzhal" (Dagger).
"The attacks of this airborne missile system on the Ukrainian military infrastructure during the military special operation continue," said Defense Ministry spokesman in Moscow Igor Konashenkov.
Several Western politicians had recently expressed concern about the use of the eight-meter-long rockets.
The weapons can apparently fly extremely fast and high.
Russia says it has used the new missile twice in Ukraine in the past few days.
According to the Russian Foreign Ministry, the US Ambassador to Moscow, John Sullivan, has been summoned.
US President Joe Biden last week called Vladimir Putin a "war criminal" and then a "murderous dictator".
A protest note was handed to Sullivan.
"Such statements by the American President, unworthy of a statesman of such high rank, are bringing Russian-American relations to the brink of collapse," the State Department said in a statement in Moscow.
That's what the international community says
Germany will deliver more weapons to Ukraine.
According to government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, the deliveries should be based on what Germany has already delivered.
In addition, Germany intends to provide the “core of the EU’s rapid reaction force” in 2025.
Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht (SPD) offered this on the sidelines of a meeting with her EU counterparts in Brussels, the Federal Ministry of Defense tweeted on Monday.
Still to be discussed is how to combine the possibilities of the EU with those of NATO "in order to be able to appear as powerfully and consistently as possible".
According to Federal Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, the EU is planning to double its financial aid to Ukraine for the procurement of weapons - to a total of one billion euros.
At a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, Baerbock said that the federal government would ensure that gun orders from German companies could also be carried out quickly.
In addition, the EU must reckon with up to eight million war refugees.
"I think we need to be very aware that over three million people have already fled, but many, many millions more will flee," Baerbock said.
Lithuania's President Gitanas Nauseda has called for Russia to be even more marginalized because of its attack on Ukraine.
In addition, the economic pressure on Moscow must be further increased.
"We must completely isolate the aggressor country in all sectors and in all international organizations," he told the BNS agency after meeting Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte in Vilnius.
Nauseda called for all Russian and Belarusian banks to be excluded from the Swift banking communications network and for Russian ships to be restricted from accessing European seaports.
The European Union's independence from Russian energy supplies must also be guaranteed as soon as possible, said the head of state of the Baltic EU and NATO country.
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