We reported earlier that pictures and a credible video have emerged showing damage to Russia's Moskva warship, which sank in the Black Sea last week.

The footage and two images all match the shape and design of the Russian Black Sea Fleet flagship, a BBC analysis shows.

The Kremlin has now responded.

"We did see the footage, but we can't say how authentic and true it is," President Vladimir Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.

Ukraine says it successfully struck the Moskva with two Ukrainian-made Neptune missiles, while Moscow alleges it was damaged after an explosion and subsequently sank because of “stormy seas”.

A Ukrainian mayor has been describing his experience of being held for almost a week by Russian forces.

"It was a dangerous six days because I understood that for Russians my life and the lives of civilians were worth zero," Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov told the Reuters news agency.

Ukraine said he was abducted on 11 March after Russian forces seized Melitopol and was later released as part of a prisoner exchange.

Fedorov said he had faced "psychological" but not physical torture with up to seven soldiers questioning him "at night”, conducting “about four or five hours” of “hard” interrogations.

"Russian soldiers assumed that they would be welcomed but they were not... and that is why the Russians were very, very angry," he added.

Fedorov, who is now in Rome, said he remained in regular contact with the people of Melitopol. He met Pope Francis over the weekend and said he had invited him to visit Ukraine because "maybe he can stop this war".

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Toby Luckhurst and Mariana Maglych
BBC News, Lviv

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As we've reported, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has so far been largely unscathed by the war, has recorded its first civilian deaths after Russian strikes, officials say.

At least seven people were killed and 11 injured in the early morning attack on Monday, the city's mayor said, warning that the death toll could rise as emergency services clear through the rubble.

Lviv is the hub through which tens of thousands of people have fled to neighbouring Poland after withstanding weeks of strikes in cities such as Kyiv, Kharkiv and Mariupol..

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But Mayor Andriy Sadovyi told reporters that the morning strikes showed there were now "no safe and unsafe locations" in Ukraine.

Russia has said its plan is to focus its forces in the east - an attempt to capture the industrial area on the border known as the Donbas - after Ukraine held off its attempt to take the capital Kyiv, in the north.

This is why the strikes in Lviv - which is hundreds of miles from the front line in the east - came as a surprise and left many residents in shock.

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Ukraine's Armed Forces Command says it sees signs that Russia is beginning its new offensive in eastern Ukraine.

The general staff of the armed forces posted on social media, external that Russia's main efforts were now focused on establishing complete control of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions, with military action also intensifying in Kharkiv.

It added that the fight for Mariupol continued and Russian military were focusing on gaining complete control of the area.

It also said Russia continued to violate the rules of international humanitarian law and was blocking initiatives to evacuate civilians from occupied settlements.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has bestowed an honorary title on a brigade accused by Ukraine of committing atrocities in the town of Bucha.

A decree signed by Putin gave the 64th Motor Rifle Brigade the title of "Guards" for the "mass heroism and valour, tenacity and courage" of its members.

Ukraine says more than 300 civilians were killed by the Russians in Bucha - Moscow denies any involvement.

Putin also signed a decree establishing a pay-out of an additional 5 million roubles (£47,200; $62,000) if a Russian border guard dies while serving on the Ukrainian border as well on the borders of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The measure has been taken "in order to provide additional measures of social support to service personnel of the border agencies of the Federal Security Service and members of their families", the Russian state news agency Tass said.

Mohamed Madi & Dan Johnson
Reporting from Lviv

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Yury Baran worked in IT at a local garage in Lviv. He was recently engaged, and less than a month away from his 27th birthday.

This morning, he and three co-workers decided to have a coffee before starting work in the office. At around 08:30 local time, the garage was destroyed by at least one missile.

His parents, Anatoly and Maria, tried to get through to him after hearing of the attacks on Lviv. They rushed to the site of the attack to find out that he was dead. Yury was their only son.

“Humans cannot do such things. They are not humans, they are barbaric invaders,” Anatoly said of the Russians.

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BBC Monitoring

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Dramatic pictures - and a credible video - allegedly showing the Russian warship Moskva before it sank last week have appeared online.

Russia says a fire onboard caused ammunitions to explode and the vessel sank as it was being towed in a storm. Ukraine says it hit the ship with missiles.

The images were allegedly taken on 14 April, a day after Ukraine claimed to have struck the vessel.

The BBC showed the footage to naval expert Jonathan Bentham from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, who concluded that the ship in the images was certainly a Slava-class cruiser and "probably" the Moskva.

He says the visible damage sustained by the cruiser is consistent with a possible Neptune missile attack, but stressed it was not possible to rule out other causes.

Read more here.

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So what is the situation in Mariupol? As we've been hearing, the battle for the Ukrainian port city rages on and the prime minister says defending troops will "fight until the end".

Meanwhile, the foreign minister accused Russia of trying to raze Mariupol to the ground.

The city occupies a key strategic location. Capturing it could give Russia command over a vast swathe of southern and eastern Ukraine.

Moscow says it now controls almost all of Mariupol, though Ukraine's Azov Battalion is still holding out in the huge Azovstal steelworks.

Read more about the fight for the city here.

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Anna Foster
Reporting from Kyiv

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In that short new video of Viktor Medvedchuk - the man seen as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s closest ally in Ukraine has asked to be swapped for the "defenders of Mariupol and residents".

He’s sitting at a wooden table and the shot is tight, with very little of the plain white background visible. It makes it hard to know exactly where he is, and crucially, if he’s speaking freely or under duress. It was published by Ukraine’s security service SBU.

The Ukrainian government says it has conducted several prisoner swaps with Russia already, but none that would be as high-profile as this. It’s also notable that the Kremlin previously said that it wouldn’t consider Medvedchuk for an exchange because he is a "foreign politician".

His wife Oksana Marchenko has already appealed to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to trade her husband for British nationals apparently captured by Russia in Mariupol. She also asked their relatives to exert influence on him.

The new video seems designed to give a sense that Medvedchuk believes his future would be better placed in Russia, than in a country where he was already under house arrest for treason.

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If you are just joining us, here's a round-up of the latest developments:

• Officials in Ukraine's western city of Lviv say seven people were killed in missile attacks overnight
• Rockets struck military facilities and a car service centre, part of a wave of attacks which Moscow says hit more than 300 targets across Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv
• Two more deaths have been reported after Russian forces shelled residential buildings in Kharkiv

• The UN is reporting that more than 4.9 million Ukrainians have now fled the country as a result of the war
• Russia has accused Ukraine of changing its stance on issues that it argues have already been agreed at peace talks
• Pictures and a video allegedly showing the Russian warship Moskva before it sank last week have appeared online
• Russian state television has shown two British fighters captured in Ukraine asking to be exchanged with a pro-Russian politician held in Ukraine - it's not clear whether they were speaking under duress

• Elsewhere, Ukraine's pro-Russian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who was arrested last week, has appeared in a video asking the Russian and Ukrainian presidents to use him in a swap with defenders and residents in Mariupol - the clip was posted by Ukraine's security service and it's unclear if he was speaking freely

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In further reports of bombing, two people have died after Russia attacked the Osnovyansky district of Kharkiv today, a spokesman for the Kharkiv regional prosecutor's office said.

Dmitry Chubenko said criminal proceedings had been opened after the incident - in which a man and woman died - adding that Russian shelling fell on playgrounds near residential buildings.

Russian military also fired on a number of medical facilities in Kharkiv, destroying the perinatal centre, its mayor Igor Terekhov told local media.

"Now we are transferring women who are about to give birth to other medical institutions," he said.

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One place that many have been trying to leave is the destroyed city of Mariupol - which we've reported has been the focus of incessant shelling.

Ukraine has called on Moscow to allow the opening of a humanitarian corridor to let people safely leave the city. But there are no such corridors running on Monday after officials from both countries failed to agree a plan.

Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk also requested a second corridor from the area of the Azovstal steelworks. This would allow a safe exit route for women, children and other civilians.

The huge industrial plant is the last significant Ukrainian holdout in the besieged southern port city.

Writing on Telegram, Vereshchuk warned the Russians could be found liable for war crimes if they refused to let the exit routes operate.

Earlier we told you the UN's refugee agency is reporting that more than 4.9 million Ukrainians have now fled the country. But the number of people displaced internally as a result of the war is also increasing.

“Thousands of people'' are arriving every day in Dnipro from areas that are “under intensive fighting… in the east”, according to Karolina Lindholm Billing, the head of the UNHCR in Ukraine.

She says the latest estimate is that 7.1m people are displaced internally, but the numbers are “growing by the minute, especially within Ukraine”.

She says one of the UNHCR’s priorities is to try and get aid to "areas that are now subject to this military offensive”.

She says it has been providing items to the state emergency service in six locations in the Donetsk region, including Kramatorsk, to give to people “sitting in bomb shelters”.

The relief packages include tarpaulin that people can use to seal broken windows and doors, blankets, mattresses and items for personal hygiene.

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The family of a British man who has reportedly been captured by Russian forces while fighting in Ukraine say they are hoping for a quick resolution to his situation.

Shaun Pinner, 48, who is serving in the Ukrainian army, has appeared on Russian state television.

His family say he was a "funny, much-loved, well-intentioned" man.

They are calling for him - and Aiden Aslin, another British man being held by the Russians - to be treated in accordance with the Geneva Convention, external.

A Foreign Office source condemned "the exploitation of prisoners of war for political purposes".

They called on the Kremlin to treat all prisoners of war humanely.

In a statement, Pinner's family said he was a "well-respected" soldier in the British Army before he moved to Ukraine four years ago to use his previous experience and training with the Ukrainian military.

Read the full story here.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Western countries scored an own goal by imposing sanctions on Russia.

He said it has led to a "deterioration of the economy in the West".

Speaking about the state of Russia's domestic economy, Putin said inflation was stabilising and that retail demand in the country had normalised, Reuters is reporting.

Western nations have imposed severe sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.

Earlier Putin told top government officials via video-link that Russia should use its budget to support the economy and liquidity in conditions of contracting lending activity even though the central bank's rate cuts will make lending cheaper.

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As we've been reporting, Ukrainian cities including Kyiv and Lviv in western Ukraine have come under renewed bombardment.

But the UK's latest intelligence update, external focuses on the fighting in the country's east - including in the besieged port city of Mariupol.

• The Ministry of Defence suggests Russia will be "concerned" at how long it has been taking to subdue the city - a result of strong Ukrainian resistance
• The MoD says there have been "significant casualties" among Mariupol's civilian population during the hostilities
• The update accuses Russia of deliberately targeting populated areas, likening this to tactics previously seen in Chechnya and Syria. Russia denies using such tactics

Ukraine’s foreign minister earlier accused Russia of trying to raze the strategically-located city to the ground.

Troops defending Mariupol ignored a Russian deadline to surrender on Sunday.

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We have more now from the mayor of Lviv following the strikes on military facilities and a car tyre service point in his city.

"Seven civilians had plans for life, today their lives have ended," Andriy Sadovyi said in an online news conference.

"I was speaking to the manager of the garage. He was crying - not about the property, which was destroyed, but for his employees," he added.

"Forty cars were destroyed there. Thank God the number of dead was not higher."

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The Kremlin has accused Ukraine of changing its stance on issues that have already been agreed at peace talks.

Reuters is reporting that Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call that contact was continuing at an expert level within the negotiation process.

"Unfortunately the Ukrainian side is not consistent in terms of the points that have been agreed," he said.

"It is often changing its position and the trend of the negotiating process leaves much to be desired."

As we've been reporting, the western Ukrainian city of Lviv has been the target of Russian missile strikes.

The BBC's Dan Johnson reports from the scene, where he witnessed "missiles streaking across the sky and hitting buildings".

Joel Gunter
Reporting from Serhiivka, Donbas region

In the Ukrainian village of Serhiivka, in the eastern region of Donbas, there are hardly any young people left.

Until recently there were 1,500 residents in Serhiivka and a Sunday in the central part of the village would have been full of life.

But the village, about 50km (30 miles) from the frontlines to the east and south, has emptied out. There are only 300 people left, and it is mostly the older generations.

“I have lived here all my life,” said Mykola Luhynets, a 59-year-old, rifle-carrying new member of the territorial defence units. “I will stay here in Serhiivka and and defend it if necessary."

The demographic shift seen here is happening all over parts of Ukraine under threat - younger people moving to safer areas while older people are stay behind.

“It’s hard for older people to hit the road,” said Valeriy Duhelnyy, the head of the village.

“And maybe some are sentimental - they have stronger emotional ties to where they live,” he said.

“They don’t want to die anywhere but home.”

Read more here.