President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces shot down 33 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and 311 strike drones over the past week. Read also: Russia launches deadly missile attack on Kryvyi Rih He added that 136 additional drones used by Russia in daily strikes on infrastructure failed to reach their targets.

Ukraine's president is offering a prisoner swap with North Korean soldiers it has captured, in exchange for Ukrainians held by Russia. Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a direct appeal to leader Kim Jong Un after seizing two North Koreans in Russia's Kursk region.

At least three people were killed in the assault on the capital, and at least one died and 11 were wounded in a separate strike in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia.