Vitaliy Shevchenko
BBC Monitoring’s Russia editor

Now for an update on the ground in Ukraine.

At least three civilians were killed in Russian shelling in Ukraine on Sunday, local authorities report.

In the eastern Donetsk region, two residents of the village of Bilytske were killed in Russian shelling, the head of the regional military administration, Vadym Filashkin, says.

Bilytske is outside the crucial town of Pokrovsk, which has been the site of fierce fighting for months.

In Nikopol, in the Dnipropetrovsk region in south-eastern Ukraine, a 52-year-old man died of shrapnel wounds and a 74-year-old local resident was injured in Russian shelling, the head of the regional administration, Serhiy Lysak, says.

Lysak also says four locals were injured in the Russian shelling of Marhanets.