By Kathleen Magramo, Andrew Raine, Jack Guy and Ed Upright, CNN
From CNN's Julia Kesaieva
Ukraine's emergency services said Monday the death toll from a Russian rocket strike on an apartment building in Donetsk has risen to 18.
The State Emergency Service said six people had been rescued from under the rubble of the building in Chasiv Yar, which was hit on Saturday evening.
It said two people were still under the rubble and in contact with the rescuers.
From CNN's Julia Kesaieva
The city of Kharkiv came under missile fire by Russian forces three times on Monday, according to the Ukrainian State Emergency Service.
The service said there were no injuries but an 86-year old woman was rescued from underneath the rubble of a six-story residential building.
The service said two other missiles hit a yard near a warehouse as well as a school building in the Slobidskyi district of the city.
By CNN Staff
Ukraine has launched a counteroffensive against Russian troops in the southern regions of Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. Authorities have asked residents to evacuate both areas.
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From CNN's Maria Kostenko
Ukrainian emergency services say the number of dead after a Russian rocket strike against an apartment building in the Donetsk region has risen to 15.
The State Emergency Service said that as of 1pm local time on Sunday, 15 bodies had been found and five people rescued from the rubble of the apartment block in the town of Chasiv Yar.
"Language contact was established and maintained with three persons under the rubble, measures are being taken to rescue them," it said.
"According to preliminary information, 24 people including one child may still be under the rubble," the emergency service said.
What happened? The apartment block was hit on Saturday evening. The town has seen a growing number of Russian missile and rocket attacks as Russian forces try to gain ground in Donetsk.
From CNN's Anastasia Graham-Yooll in London
Ukrainian officials have expressed "deep disappointment" at a decision by the Canadian government to return a repaired turbine that is part of Russia’s gas pipeline to Europe.
The Ukrainian foreign and energy ministries blasted the return of the turbine as “bending the sanctions regime to the whims of Russia," and urged the Canadian government to rethink.
“This dangerous precedent goes against the rule of law and has only one consequence – it will reinforce Moscow's sense of impunity,” the ministries said in a statement.
Why is it important? The turbine, part of the compressor station at the Nord Stream 1 pipeline that supplies Russian gas to Europe under the Baltic Sea, had been sent to the manufacturer, Siemens, in Canada for maintenance. Ukraine argued that returning it would go against sanctions imposed on Russia for its invasion. But Russia’s Gazprom reduced the supply of gas to Germany by 40% in June, citing delays in the return of the turbine.
The transfer of the Nord Stream-1 turbine will allow Russia to continue using energy as a tool of hybrid warfare against Europe,” the ministries said.
The energy ministry suggested Ukraine can “completely replace” the Nord Stream 1 pipeline with its own capacity to transport natural gas to Europe.
From CNN's Tim Lister
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba has thanked the United States for the latest infusion of humanitarian aid announced Saturday.
Kuleba tweeted Sunday: "Grateful to the US and @SecBlinken for the unfaltering support for Ukraine. Additional humanitarian, financial, and military aid is crucial as Ukraine continues to defend itself from Russia’s barbaric aggression."
A day earlier, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken had tweeted: "Our commitment to the people of Ukraine is resolute. The United States is providing nearly $368 million in additional humanitarian aid to support people inside Ukraine and refugees forced to flee their country to seek safety in the midst of Russia's brutal war."
His announcement followed the US Defense Department's authorization Friday of security assistance of up to $400 million – the fifteenth instalment of equipment drawn from US defense inventories.
The equipment included four High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and additional ammunition, 155mm artillery ammunition and demolition munitions.
"The United States has committed $2.2 billion of security assistance to Ukraine in the last three weeks as we support their fight to defend their democracy," the Defense Department said.
By CNN's Anastasia Graham-Yooll in London
Russian fighter jets shot down two Ukrainian SU-25 fighters and one MIG-29 jet over the Donetsk region, the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said on Sunday.
Konashenkov also claimed Russian forces had destroyed two hangars storing US-manufactured M777 howitzers in Kostiantynivka, north of Donetsk.
The Ukrainian regional military administration said one person had been killed there in the last 24 hours.
Konashenkov also said Russian forces had targeted a Ukrainian artillery unit and weapons storage in a ceramics factory in Sloviansk, killing over 100 personnel. CNN is unable to verify the claim.
The Ukrainian military reported heavy fire across several parts of the front line in the Donetsk region on Sunday, but said Russian forces had made no new gains in their attempts to advance westward.
From CNN's Tim Lister and Julia Kesaieva
Social media footage that emerged on Sunday shows a large fire and multiple explosions in or near the town of Shakhtarsk, which is under the control of the self-declared Donetsk People's Republic (DPR).
The fire caused several secondary explosions and appeared to be across a wide area.
Ukrainian officials have not commented on the video, but over the past few weeks the Ukrainian military has stepped up missile and rocket attacks against Russian supply and ammunition stores far behind the front lines, using newly received long-range western weapons.
The DPR's territorial defense force has not reported the attack. However, it said the Ukrainians had opened fire on a district of Donetsk city overnight using 155mm artillery.
From CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Talia Kayali
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken rebuked China for supporting Russia after he met with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi for more than five hours on Saturday.
In a press conference on the sidelines of the G20 Foreign Ministers meeting in Bali, Indonesia, Blinken said, "the G20 nations came together to address some of the most critical challenges facing people around the world, including the far-reaching consequences of Russia's aggression against Ukraine, particularly growing food insecurity, rising energy prices."
"We heard the majority of countries condemn Russia's aggression toward Ukraine," he added.
However, he said, "What you hear from Beijing is that it claims to be neutral. I would start with the proposition that it's pretty hard to be neutral when it comes to this aggression."
"There's a clear aggressor, there's a clear victim, there's a clear challenge not only to the lives and livelihoods of people in Ukraine but there's a challenge to the international order that China and the United States as permanent members of the Security Council are supposed to uphold," Blinken added.
"I don't think that China is, in fact, engaging in a way that suggests neutrality," he said.
"More than 11 million people in Ukraine have fled their homes since the aggression began. That is more than a quarter of Ukraine's entire population. These are tremendous numbers, and they'll only increase as the war continues," he said.
More than four months now into this brutal invasion, the PRC (China) is still standing by Russia, cycling Russian propaganda around the world," Blinken added.
