A 1000-year-old monastery that symbolises Ukraine's spiritual and cultural heritage has been badly damaged in the heaviest Russian aerial attack on Kyiv in a fortnight, while at least 10 people were killed in air strikes.
France's foreign minister said the attack on the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage site founded in 1051, was akin to bombing Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
The Russian strikes came after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday he had discussed with US President Donald Trump efforts to secure an end to the more than four-year conflict, ahead of a G7 meeting in France this week.