Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday declared a unilateral three-day ceasefire in Ukraine next month, a move met with skepticism by Ukrainian officials who demanded the Kremlin leader immediately accept a longer truce proposal from the United States that he has so far rejected.

Of nearly 100 drones fired by the Kremlin's forces, a drone struck a residential building in the Smaarivskyi district in the Dnipropetrovsk region, the Ukrainian emergency service said