Ukraine war: Drone strikes, nuclear plant anxiety, Wagner stays in Bakhmut

Moscow launched dozens of missiles and drones towards Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities on Sunday night, injuring at least five people. 

Russian missiles caused a huge fire at a foodstuff warehouse in the Black Sea city of Odesa, with blasts reported in several other Ukrainian regions early on Monday morning.

Ukraine’s top military brass said it shot down all 35 Iranian-made Shahed drones that were launched during the night. 

Five people were hurt in Kyiv, according to the city's major Vitali Klitschko. Two of these injuries were caused by drone wreckage falling in the west of the capital. 

The strikes came as Russia prepares for its annual Victory Day celebrations, which mark the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin has played on Russia's victory in the Second World War in his narrative around the Ukraine invasion, calling leaders in Kyiv Nazis. 

“Unfortunately, there are dead and wounded civilians, high-rise buildings, private homes and other civilian infrastructure were damaged,” the General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces said in its daily update.

Air raid alerts blared for hours over roughly two-thirds of Ukraine on Sunday. 

Worries over Europe's largest nuclear power plant grew on Sunday after local authorities ordered civilians living nearby to evacuate.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has spent months trying to persuade Russian and Ukrainian officials to avert disaster at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, located in southeastern Ukraine. 

The facility was captured by Moscow early in the war but has been caught in the crossfire ever since. 

Evacuations were ordered by Yegeny Balitsky the Russia-backed governor of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia province, raising fears that fighting in the