Artillery shells rained down on a city close to Europe's biggest nuclear plant overnight and Russian missiles hit targets near Odesa on Sunday as the war headed for its six-month milestone, with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky warning that Moscow might attempt "something particularly ugly" in the run-up to the country's independence day on Wednesday.
August 24 will mark six months since the start of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and 31 years since Kyiv won its independence from Soviet rule.
