Explosions rocked Kyiv early Sunday, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said, adding that one person was killed and several were injured as drones swarmed the capital. Another wave of drone attacks occurred early Monday morning, officials in Kyiv and Odessa said.
The attacks come as Ukraine appears to be preparing a long-anticipated counteroffensive aimed at taking back captured areas. Although there haven’t yet been shock maneuvers of the kind that reshaped the war in the fall, Kyiv is signaling that the offensive may be underway.
Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
Driving a tractor or plow through lands potentially strewn with mines may be too dangerous. So farmers in some of the most fertile parts of the country are sweeping their fields on foot, determining which shells have exploded and which are still deadly.