Instead of being woken by their alarm clocks this morning, Ukrainians have been roused from their beds by the familiar sound of air-raid sirens across the country. Local media reports have said that the sirens were heard in the regions of Lviv, Kyiv, Dnipro and Zaporizhzhia at 6am (4am GMT)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's latest video message to his people, meanwhile, saw him accuse Vladimir Putin's army of "cowardice from top to bottom" overnight. His comments came as a riposte to Russian suggestions that Ukrainian troops had murdered their own civilians following the release of graphic photographs of some of the war's casualties.
The Ukrainian leader also insisted that Russia was "afraid" of losing and the truth of their actions being exposed and added that the invading country had been "killing people and children on our land for eight years". He went on to calculate that 2,000 missiles have now rained down on Ukrainian cities, towns and villages and admitted that he is expecting heavy bombardment in the east of the country during coming days.
