As it happened: UK and US urge caution on Russian pledge to reduce attacks​​ - BBC News
Russia says it will "drastically reduce" attacks in Kyiv and Chernihiv - but the US and UK warn actions are more important than words.
The shelling of a local government building came just after a short period of “relative calmness”, as locals put it.

Relative calmness here in southern Ukraine means some days without blasts and shooting in the city.

That temporary serenity felt so reassuring that the local authorities had encouraged local businesses to reopen and come back to work.

But then this morning a cruise missile hit a nine-storey block that housed the Mykolaiv region's administration.

The blast wave from that strike broke the windows and doors of residential and administrative buildings nearby.

“This is just horrible,” says Nina, a seller at a grocery store where glass windows were destroyed because of the blast.

“But the main thing is that we are alive. We will repair all this,” she adds.

The cabinet room of Vitaliy Kim, regional governor, was destroyed, too. He said he survived because he overslept.

Having gained Ukraine-wide popularity thanks to his viral videos that start from a phrase “Good morning, we are from Ukraine”, today he added: “Not so good after all.”

The attack at the port city on the Black Sea came hours before the Russia-Ukraine peace negotiations got under way on the other side of the sea, in Istanbul.

To the locals, it casts doubts over the “progressive” nature of the peace talks.