Russia-Ukraine conflict: shelling shakes Nikopol close to a nuclear plant; Zelenskiy advises Moscow against prosecuting Ukrainian servicemen.

Moscow is warned against trying Ukrainian soldiers, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the president of Ukraine, has cautioned Russia against putting Ukrainian soldiers seized during the siege of Mariupol on trial, arguing that doing so would jeopardize the chance of negotiations.

In his most recent video message, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy stated that if the "absurd and repugnant trial" of Ukrainian soldiers is held in Mariupol, it will remove the chance of negotiations with Russia.

If this terrible court is established and our citizens are brought into these surroundings in violation of all accords and international laws, there will be abuse.

This will be the boundary beyond which there can be no negotiations." The bombardment of Nikopol near the nuclear plant

The Ukrainian city of Nikopol was bombarded by artillery munitions near to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear reactor.

Nikopol was shelled on five separate occasions, according to a Telegram update from the regional governor, Valentyn Reznichenko.

Ukraine is preparing for an increase in Russian missile assaults to coincide with Wednesday's independence day.

The military warned that Russia has placed five warships and submarines equipped with cruise missiles in the Black Sea, as well as air defense systems in Belarus. Since Monday, large gatherings are prohibited for four days in Kiev.

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This week, as the country commemorates its 31st anniversary of independence, the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, warned that "Russia may attempt to do something very terrible, particularly vicious."

The Ukrainian city of Nikopol has been bombarded with artillery projectiles near to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power station.

On five separate instances, Nikopol was shelled, wrote regional governor Valentyn Reznichenko through Telegram. He reported that 25 artillery shells struck the city, igniting an industrial building and cutting power to 3,000 residents.

Russian missiles struck locations near Odesa, according to Ukrainian officials. Five Russian Kalibr cruise missiles were launched from the Black Sea into the region, according to a representative for the regional administration, who cited information from the southern military command.

Two were shot down by Ukrainian air defenses and three struck agricultural targets, although no injuries were reported. Russia stated on Sunday that the missiles had damaged a storage facility carrying missiles for US-made Himars rockets, while Ukraine stated that a grain storage facility had been struck.

On Saturday evening, the daughter of an ultranationalist Russian theorist and ally of Vladimir Putin was killed by a vehicle bomb on the outskirts of Moscow.

According to investigators, Darya Dugina, whose father is the Russian political commentator Alexander Dugin, died when the Toyota Land Cruiser she was driving was ripped apart by a powerful explosion approximately 12 miles (20km) west of the capital near the village of Bolshiye Vyazemy at approximately 9:30pm local time (19:30 BST).

A former member of the Russian Duma asserts that Russian partisans were responsible for the car bombing.

Ilya Ponomarev, who was expelled for anti-Kremlin activities, claimed that the explosion was the work of the National Republican Army, which he said was an underground organization operating within Russia and devoted to toppling the Putin dictatorship. "This attack begins a new chapter in the Russian opposition to Putinism," he stated. MSN is the originating source.