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The latest developments in Russia’s war on Ukraine. All times EST.

10:05 a.m.: President of the EU Commission expressed Europe’s support for Ukraine.

9:15 a.m.:

8:15 a.m.: Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Monday, that 63 Russian servicemen had been killed in a Ukrainian missile strike on a building that housed Russian soldiers in the town of Makiivka, in the Russian-controlled part of Ukraine’s Donetsk region.

According to The New York Times, the strike, on New Year’s Day, would make it one of the deadliest single strikes against Russian forces in Ukraine since the war began.

A spokesman for the Russian-installed proxy government in the Donetsk region called the strike in the city of Makiivka “a massive blow.”

Igor Strelkov, a Russian former intelligence officer also known as Igor Girkin, said in a post on Telegram, that the casualties included “many hundreds” of dead and wounded. But he added that it was difficult to know the true figure because many people “remained under the rubble.” He called the strike in the city of Makiivka “a massive blow.”

Video posted on social media showed firefighters at a severely damaged building and piles of steaming rubble, although it was not possible to independently verify the footage.

Ukraine struck the building using HIMARS, a guided rocket system supplied by the United States with a range of dozens of miles, according to the Ukrainian army’s strategic communications directorate in a post on Telegram.

7:45 a.m.: Ukraine said on Monday it had shot down all Russian drones in a massive wave of attacks, after Moscow launched air strikes against civilian targets, for the third night, intensifying its air war for the New Year holiday, Reuters reported.

Russian officials meanwhile were reeling from reports that high numbers of freshly mobilized Russian troops had been killed in a strike on a make shift barracks in occupied Ukraine, where soldiers were housed with an ammunition dump. A source close to the Russian-installed authorities told Reuters dozens had died.

After firing dozens of missiles on Dec. 31, Russia launched dozens of Iranian-made Shahed drones on Jan. 1 and Jan. 2. But Kyiv said on Monday it had shot down all 39 drones in the latest wave, including 22 shot down over the capital.

Kyiv said the new tactic was a sign of Russia’s desperation as Ukraine’s ability to defend its air space had improved.

6:12 a.m.:

5:30 a.m.: Russia has deployed multiple exploding drones in another nighttime attack on Ukraine. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Monday that 40 drones “headed for Kyiv” overnight. All of them were destroyed according to air defense forces, The Associated Press reported.

The attack signaled that the Kremlin wasn’t planning any letup in its strategy of using bombardments to target civilian infrastructure and wear down Ukrainian resistance to its invasion. The barrage was the latest in a series of relentless year-end attacks including one that killed three civilians on New Year’s Eve.

Moscow’s invasion on February 24 has gone awry and it has put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin as his ground forces struggle to hold ground and advance.

5:02 a.m.: Britain said on Monday its $90.5 million fund aimed at helping boost domestic production of nuclear fuel for power plants and cutting reliance on Russian uranium supplies was now open for applications, Reuters reported.

The fund, announced in July, will award grants to businesses involved in uranium conversion, a key stage in the process of creating nuclear fuel from the metal. It will remain open for applications from Monday until February 20.

Russia currently owns around 20% of global uranium conversion capacity.

4:25 a.m.: According to Reuters, Russia’s Gazprom said it would ship 42.4 million cubic meters of gas to Europe via Ukraine on Monday, a similar volume to that reported in recent days.

4 a.m.: New Swiss President Alain Berset took office on Sunday. Agence France-Presse reported that one of the topics he covered in his New Year’s speech in Zurich was Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“And now there is a war in Europe which also has strong repercussions on our daily lives, whether in terms of energy or inflation,” Berset said. He later added that, “”The problems of others will sooner or later become our problems.”

“But many of us, in Switzerland and around the world, want to face them. Enough of us remain optimistic and look to the future with confidence.”

While militarily neutral, Switzerland has matched the economic sanctions imposed on Russia by the neighboring EU over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.

3:30 a.m.:

3 a.m.: According to Reuters, Russia’s buffeted IT sector risks losing more workers in the new year because of planned legislation on remote working, as authorities try to lure back some of the tens of thousands who have gone abroad without prompting them to cut ties completely.

Having relatively portable jobs, IT workers featured prominently among the many Russians who fled after Moscow sent its army into Ukraine on February 24 and the hundreds of thousands who followed when a military call-up began in September.

The government estimates that 100,000 IT specialists currently work for Russian companies overseas.

Now, legislation is being mooted for early this year that could ban remote working for some professions.

Hawkish lawmakers, fearful that more Russian IT professionals could end up working in NATO countries and inadvertently sharing sensitive security information, have proposed banning some IT specialists from leaving Russia.

But the Digital Ministry said in December that a total ban could make Russian IT firms less effective, and so less competitive: “In the end, whoever can attract the most talented staff, including those from abroad, will win.”

2:29 a.m. :

2 a.m.: Detailed footage of brutal battles — from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine or from a game? Agence France-Presse reported on the stir over Arma 3, a video game with battle sequences so life-like, they take a starting role in disinformation campaigns. Videos reportedly from the front line, and often marked “Breaking News,” are actually sequences taken from streams of the game. Experts explain how to tell fact from fiction when following online channels and accounts.

1:27 a.m.:

1 a.m.: As a result of overnight strikes on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, energy infrastructure facilities were damaged, causing power and heating outages, Reuters reported Mayor Vitali Klitschko as saying on Monday.

12:32 a.m.: A Ukrainian drone attack damaged a power supply facility in Russia’s Bryansk region bordering Ukraine, Reuters reported the regional governor as saying on Monday. He added that there were no casualties.

“A Ukrainian drone attack was carried out this morning on the Klimovsky district,” Governor Alexander Bogomaz said on Telegram.

“All emergency services are on site. As a result of the strike, the power supply facility was damaged, and there is no electricity.”

Reuters was not able to independently verify the report.

The Klimovsky district of the Bryansk region borders Ukraine in its southern part.

12:01 a.m.: Russia has been targeting Ukraine’s critical infrastructure in a series of drone attacks early on Monday on Kyiv and the region surrounding it, officials said.

Reuters reported that Russia kept pounding Kyiv for the second night in a row, after firing a barrage of missiles over the capital on New Year’s Eve night and earlier in the day.

“It is loud in the region and in the capital: night drone attacks,” Kyiv Governor Oleksiy Kuleba said on the Telegram messaging app.

“Russians launched several waves of (Iranian-made) Shahed drones. Targeting critical infrastructure facilities. Air defense is at work.”

By 3 a.m. local time (0100 GMT), Ukraine’s air defense systems destroyed 16 air objects above Kyiv, the city’s military administration said. Air raid sirens were wailing by that time for more than three hours.

Earlier in the night, debris from a destroyed drone over Kyiv hit the capital’s northeastern district, wounding one, the city’s Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

A 19-year-old man was taken to a hospital in Kyiv’s Desnianskiy district, Klitschko said on the Telegram messaging app, after drone debris hit a road there and damaged a building.

Reuters was not able to independently verify the information.

Kyrylo Tymoshenko, Ukrainian presidential aide, said drone debris hit a road in the Desnianskiy district, in Kyiv’s northeast, damaging a building next to it.

The district, located on the left bank of the Dnipro River, is chiefly a residential area and the capital’s most populous district.

Ukraine’s regional military command in the country’s east said air defense systems destroyed nine Iranian-made Shahed drones over the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions by early hours of Monday.

Some information in this report came from Reuters and Agence France-Presse.