The transport of aid supplies between the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv and the capital Kyiv should be possible again from this Monday.

From 10 a.m. the route along the motorway will be resumed in both directions, wrote the head of administration Vyacheslav Tschaus on Monday night on Telegram.

Accordingly, there is a weight limit of five tons.

In addition, traffic jams are expected in places.

Russian troops had long surrounded the city of Chernihiv, close to the border with Russia and Belarus.

From there, a strategically important road leads 125 kilometers south to the capital, Kyiv.

Shelling of Kharkiv

According to Ukrainian sources, 34 people were injured by Russian fire in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.

At least seven people were killed, the region's prosecutor's office wrote on Telegram.

Three children were among the injured.

An airstrike is said to have taken place in the western Ukrainian city of Ternopil.

According to the mayor there, 70 percent of the northern Ukrainian city of Chernihiv has now been destroyed.

Russia confirmed several airstrikes on military installations and fuel depots in Kyiv and Mykolaiv regions.

A control center of the air force base was destroyed in Vasylkiv, not far from Kyiv, said the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense in Moscow, Igor Konashenkov.

Mariupol "key target" according to intelligence information

In the eastern Ukrainian region of Sumy, Russian troops began retreating.

However, it is still too early to speak of a liberation of the region, said the head of the Sumy regional administration, Dmytro Schywytskyi, according to the Unian agency in a video message.

The British Ministry of Defense said it believes the Ukrainian port of Mariupol is "most likely" a key target of the Russian invasion.

Taking the city, which remains heavily contested, could establish a direct land link between Russia and the occupied Crimean Peninsula, according to a ministry update, citing intelligence information.

Russia's only connection from the mainland to the peninsula is a bridge across the Kerch Strait.

Mariupol remains the target of "intense and indiscriminate" attacks.

Thousands of people brought to safety

According to Ukrainian information, more than 2,600 people were brought to safety on Sunday from particularly hard-fought Ukrainian cities.

Of the 2,694 people, almost 1,500 were rescued from the Luhansk region, said Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk, according to the Ukrajinska Pravda newspaper.

The Ukrainian general staff expects increased attacks on Donetsk and the village of Tavrycheske in the east of the country.

He also announced during the night that Russia was moving individual units from Belarus to Russia.

Prosecutor announces investigation

After the discovery of hundreds of civilian victims in the Kiev suburb of Bucha, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office announced investigations.

According to the Attorney General's Office, 140 of the 410 bodies recovered so far from the Kyiv region have been autopsied since Friday.

In addition, more than 50 employees of the public prosecutor's office and the national police started investigations into the crimes in the Bucha area.

There should also be investigations in other regions.

That's going to be important today

According to Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck, further EU sanctions against Russia will come this week.

The fifth package of sanctions could include measures "in the whole range of personal sanctions against other people from the Putin regime over technical goods;

we will also look at the financial market again," he said on ZDF.