The United States will hold Russia accountable for “war crimes,” the White House said Monday, after Moscow’s military attacked Ukrainian cities with waves of kamikaze drones, killing at least four people in an apartment building in Kyiv.

The main thing for Tuesday, the 237th day of the war in Ukraine, LIVE TEXT:

06:49 For some people, the sanctions against Russia have become a disaster: this is the case of the Emerald Coast of Sardinia, which for many years was literally colonized by Russian oligarchs who built luxury properties there and moored their yachts.

06:48Orbán keeps Finland and Sweden under NATO control. “There were rumors in Hungarian political circles that it might be connected to Russia because of the close relationship between Orbán and Putin,” said Agnes Vadai, a member of the European Parliament from the opposition Socialist Party of Hungary.

A brief summary of recent events:

• President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi in his evening video speech announced new attacks: “Now there is a new attack by Russian drones”, Ukraine said that the attacks were carried out by “kamikaze drones” of Iranian production. Russia claimed to have carried out “massive” strikes on what it calls military and infrastructure targets.
• The United States, Britain and France said Iran’s supply of drones to Russia violated a UN Security Council resolution that approved the 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and six nations.
• Iran continues to deny supplying drones to Russia, and the Kremlin has not commented. EU foreign ministers have called for new sanctions against Tehran if it is found to have supplied Russia with military drones.
• Russia has not yet informed the United States about the training of its nuclear forces, which Washington expects to conduct in the near future, a senior US military official said.
• Ukraine’s Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant is receiving backup power from a nearby coal-fired power plant after a main supply line was shut down again, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said.
• A Russian military plane crashed into an apartment building in the southern city of Yeisk shortly after takeoff, causing a massive explosion inside the apartment building. According to the latest data, 13 people died, 19 were injured.
• Zelenskyy urged his forces to take more prisoners, saying it would make it easier to release soldiers held by Russia. The statement came a few hours after the parties carried out one of the largest prisoner exchanges to date, exchanging 218 detainees, including 108 Ukrainian women.
• Exxon Mobil Corp said it had left Russia entirely after Putin expropriated its assets, following seven months of negotiations for an orderly transfer of its 30 percent stake in a major oil project.
• Negotiations on the extension and expansion of the UN-brokered agreement, which allows the export of Ukrainian grain from the Black Sea, will continue, a UN spokesman said after UN representatives held talks in Moscow on the agreement.
• The Pentagon is considering paying for Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, which helped restore communications in Ukraine, Politico reports. Musk wrote on Twitter that SpaceX has already withdrawn its request that the US government pay for Starlink services to Ukraine.
• Journalist Maryna Ovsyannikova fled Russia with her daughter, her lawyer told AFP on Monday.
• Russia will also send heavy military equipment to Belarus as part of the Russian-Belarusian group, which includes approximately 9,000 soldiers, the Ministry of Defense in Minsk claims.
• Dmytro Medvedev warned Israel not to take a “very reckless” step regarding the supply of weapons to Ukraine: “This will destroy all interstate relations between our countries.”

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• Monday’s events were broadcast live on HotNews.ro