Here are the latest developments in the war in Ukraine:<\/p>\n
Russian authorities in the Crimean Black Sea peninsula -- seized by Moscow from Ukraine in 2014 -- say a small explosive device from a commercial drone, likely launched nearby, hit the navy command in Sevastopol.<\/p>\n
The local mayor blames \"Ukrainian nationalists\" for the attack that forced the cancellation of festivities in the city marking Russia's annual holiday celebrating the navy.<\/p>\n
But a spokesman for Ukraine's Odessa region military administration denies Kyiv -- whose nearest positions are some 200 kilometres (125 miles) away -- is responsible, calling the incident \"a sheer provocation\".<\/p>\n
\"Ourliberation of Crimea from the occupiers will be carried out in another way and much more effectively,\" spokesman Sergiy Bratchuk writes on Telegram.<\/p>\n
Authorities in Ukraine's southern city of Mykolaiv say widespread Russian bombardments overnight killed at least two civilians including a grain tycoon, as Moscow continues to pummel the sprawling front line.<\/p>\n
\"Mykolaiv was subjected to mass shelling today. Probably the strongest so far,\" the city's mayor Oleksandr Senkevych writes on Telegram.<\/p>\n
The authorities say leading Ukrainian agricultural magnate Oleksiy Vadatursky, 74, and his wife Raisa were killed when a missile struck their house<\/p>\n
Vadatursky, who was ranked Ukraine's 24th richest man with a fortune worth $430 million by Forbes, owned major grain exporter Nibulon and was previously decorated with the prestigious \"Hero of Ukraine\" award.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Turkish presidency says there is a \"high probability\" that a first ship carrying Ukrainian grain could leave Ukraine's port of Odessa on Monday.<\/p>\n
That is despite Russian missiles hitting the city in the wake of the July 22 agreement on shipping grain between Russia, Turkey, the UN and Ukraine.<\/p>\n
\"There is a strong possibility that a first ship could leave tomorrow morning if everything is sorted out by this evening,\" Ibrahim Kalin says in an interview with Kanal 7 television Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky calls for the evacuation of the eastern Donetsk region which has seen fierce clashes between his country's forces and the Russian military.<\/p>\n
\"There's already a governmental decision about obligatory evacuation from Donetsk region. Please, follow evacuation. At this phase of the war, terror is a main weapon of Russia,\" he says.<\/p>\n
Official Ukrainian estimates put the number of civilians still living in the unoccupied area of Donetsk at between 200,000 and 220,000.<\/p>\n
\"The decision to leave should be taken at some point. The more people who leave Donetsk region now, the fewer people the Russian army will kill,\" Zelensky says.<\/p>\n
Kyiv and Moscow trade blame over strikes on a jail holding Ukrainian prisoners of war in Kremlin-controlled Olenivka.<\/p>\n
Russia's military says 50 Ukrainian servicemen died, including troops who had surrendered after weeks of fighting off Russia's brutal bombardment of the sprawling Azovstal steelworks in the port city of Mariupol.<\/p>\n
Ukraine says Russia was behind the attack, with Zelensky accusing the Moscow of the \"deliberate mass murder of Ukrainian prisoners of war\".<\/p>\n
Russia's defence ministry says it has invited the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the United Nations to visit the site \"in the interests of an objective investigation\".<\/p>\n
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