Here are the updates from around the country:
Severodonetsk: Russia has not captured the city, where Ukrainian troops are holding out in parts, Serhiy Haidai, Luhansk’s regional governor, said on Monday. Some 500 civilians, including 40 children, were hiding in bunkers under a chemical plant in the city, Haidai said.
Mariupol: Ukraine’s attorney general said 24 more children had been killed in the now-Russian-controlled southern city, bringing the confirmed number of children killed in Ukraine to 287 since the war began. The number of civilian casualties is incomplete, according to authorities. Meanwhile, the bodies of dozens of fighters killed while defending the Azovstal steel plant have not been recovered, said Maksym Zhorin, a former commander of the Azov regiment who was the backbone of the defense there. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky promised on Monday that Ukrainian forces would come to pick up his citizens in areas occupied by Russia, such as Mariupol, Kherson and Melitopol.
Elsewhere in the Donbas region: A key flank of the Russian front lies west of the Siversky Donets River, which crosses eastern Ukraine and enters Russia and forms a natural barrier against Moscow’s advances. Russian troops have tried to destroy bridges over the river to disrupt the flow of supplies and reinforcements between Severodonetsk and Lysychansk, but the destruction has made it difficult for them to attack Slovyansk due to the challenges facing the river, according to analysts at the Institute for Study of War, a Washington-based think tank.
Bryan Pietsch, Lateshia Beachum and Maria Paul contributed to this report.