Here’s a quick update on the latest developments in Ukraine:
- Five missile strikes have been reported in the western city of Lviv on Monday morning while air raid sirens were heard in Kyiv and several other parts of Ukraine
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has invited French President Emmanuel Macron to visit the country to see for himself the acts of “genocide” committed by Russian forces
- Russian troops are issuing “movement passes” to those who remain in the besieged city of Mariupol, an adviser to the city’s mayor has said residents will not be able to move between districts or be out on the streets without these passes
- Ukrainian authorities have asked residents of the Luhansk region in the east to evacuate immediately, saying this may be their “last chance” to leave safely
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The situation has changed here completely in the last hour or so.
People here had thought they were relatively safe; there had been one missile attack reported on the edge of the city since the start of the invasion.
It’s not clear what the targets are.
It is a real reminder to people of the risk that they face here, even though we are hundreds of miles away from the front-line fighting in the east of the country in the Donbas where the conflict had been expected to intensify.
But we have seen those renewed Russian attacks on a number of Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv, and this morning at least Lviv has come under attack.
With that, it’s Yvette Tan and Meryl Sebastian