The Ukrainian military has claimed Russian forces have stockpiles of ammunition and food that will last for “no more than three days” in its operational report this morning. Officials said the situation is similar with fuel, adding: “Mobilisation is carried out chaotically … most of them have no military specialty, because they have never served in the military.” Ukraine also claimed its forces have retaken the town of Makariv, just 50km west of Kyiv.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy urged direct talks with Vladimir Putin, saying: “Without this meeting it is impossible to fully understand what they are ready for in order to stop the war.”

Zelenskiy told the Italian parliament that “For Russian troops, Ukraine is the gates of Europe, where they want to break in.” Italian prime minister Mario Draghi said Ukraine has offered “heroic” resistance and that Italy would support Kyiv’s bid to join the EU.

A journalist at Russia’s Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper has said that a story which appeared on its website on Monday claiming nearly 10,000 Russian troops had been killed in Ukraine so far was the result of a “hack” on the website.

A Ukrainian MP for Odesa, Oleksiy Honcharenko, has said he anticipates a Russian land operation against the city launched from the Black Sea. Residential areas in Odesa were reportedly targeted for the first time during the war on Monday.

The mayor of Boryspil, Volodymyr Borysenko, has urged civilians to leave the town. It is located just outside Kyiv, near Ukraine’s largest international airport.

Ukraine’s deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk has appealed to Russia to allow humanitarian supplies into the besieged southern city of Mariupol and to let civilians leave. A convoy of 15 buses carrying 1,114 evacuees is set to depart on a 200km trip to the city of Zaporizhzhia on Tuesday, where people will receive food, medical and psychological support, as well as resettlement assistance.

EU leaders intend to set up a “trust fund” for Ukraine as it battles Russia’s invasion and to help it rebuild after the war, according to a draft document prepared before Thursday’s EU summit.