Russia's army has said that its forces had captured another village in Ukraine's northeastern Sumy region, where Moscow has stepped up its offensive in recent weeks.
The Russian troops captured Novomykolaivka in Sumy, a settlement around four kilometres from the Ukraine-Russia border, the defence ministry said on Telegram.
The advance of Moscow's army comes as peace talks have stalled and as Russia rejects the unconditional truce demanded by Kyiv and its European allies.
Ukraine has dismissed Russia's demands as "ultimatums".
Russia first tried to capture the regional capital Sumy at the start of its offensive in 2022, before being pushed back in a Ukrainian counter-offensive later that year.
In 2024, Kyiv used the Sumy region as the base for its own armed incursion into Russia's western Kursk region.
After recapturing the Kursk territory earlier this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered his army to once again advance across the border to push back Ukraine's forces.
Sumy is not one of the five Ukrainian regions that Russia claims to have formally annexed.
Russia's defence ministry has said that its troops had also captured the settlement of Dovgenke in the Kharkiv region.
Death toll in Kyiv rises to 21
Rescuers in Kyiv have said that the death toll from a major Russian attack on Ukraine's capital the previous day had risen to 21, with more than 130 people wounded.
Russia launched dozens of drones and missiles at Kyiv early yesterday morning in what President Volodymyr Zelensky called "one of the most horrific attacks" on the capital of the three-year war.
"In total, 21 people died in the capital and 134 people were injured," Ukraine's state emergency service wrote on Telegram.
It added that 16 bodies had been recovered from the rubble of a single nine-story apartment building in the Solomyansky district.
The previous death toll given by Kyiv's mayor was 14.
Mr Zelensky said 440 drones and 32 missiles were launched in the strikes nationwide and urged the international community not to "turn a blind eye".
The Russian defence ministry said it had conducted precision strikes on "military-industrial facilities in the Kyiv region," in a statement similar to those released after other major attacks.
More than three years into its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has stepped up attacks despite efforts by the United States to broker a ceasefire.
Talks have stalled. Moscow has rejected the "unconditional" truce demanded by Kyiv and its European allies, while Ukraine has dismissed Russia's demands as "ultimatums".
