Ukraine: What happened today, Monday, March 21?

People carry wooden boards to cover the windows of a building damaged by a bombing the previous day in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, March 21, 2022. As Russia intensified its effort to pound Mariupol into submission, its ground offensive in other parts of Ukraine has become bogged down. Western officials and analysts say the conflict is turning into a grinding war of attrition, with Russia bombarding cities.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

At least eight people have died after Russian forces bombed a shopping centre in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s prosecutor general.

In a post on its Telegram channel, it said: "As a consequence of the enemy missile strike and the resulting fire, a shopping mall was destroyed, windows in the nearby residential buildings and the vehicles parked in the vicinity were damaged."