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Here is a little more information on James Scott Rhys Anderson, the British national the Russian military have reportedly captured fighting alongside Ukrainian troops in Russia’s partially occupied Kursk region.

Tass, the Russian news agency, quoted him as saying that he had served as a signalman in the British army for four years and then joined the International Legion of Ukraine, formed early on in Russia’s full-scale invasion launched in February 2022.

In Ukraine, Anderson reportedly served as an instructor for Ukrainian troops and was deployed to the Kursk region against his will. Tass published a video of the man saying in English that he doesn’t want to be “here”. We have not yet been able to independently verify this information.

Speaking at the family home in Banbury, Oxfordshire, Anderson’s father, Scott, 41, told the Daily Mail that he fears his son will be tortured.

The father-of-four said:

I’m hoping he’ll be used as a bargaining chip but my son told me they torture their prisoners and I’m so frightened he’ll be tortured …

We spoke on WhatsApp almost every day until he went on his most recent operation. He was acting as a signalman.

James last came home only a month and a half ago. He said his Ukrainian commander had made a promise that he’d contact me if he was ever killed or captured.

When he called me and sent the video I was in complete shock and in tears. I could see straight away it was him. He looks frightened, scared and worried.

I didn’t want him to go. I did try to persuade him not to go – my whole family tried to persuade him. He wanted to go out there because he thought he was doing what was right. He was dead against what was happening to the Ukrainian people.

Since he went out earlier this year, he’s fallen in love with a Ukrainian although I don’t know her name.

I last spoke to him when I last saw him but we used to talk on WhatsApp every day. He’d tell me where he’d been and the things he’d seen.

He was alive, healthy. He sent me a video when he was at Sumy. Then he was being posted within the last week.

Dan Sabbagh is the Guardian’s defence and security editor

Russia and other adversaries of the UK are trying to use artificial intelligence to enhance cyber-attacks against the nation’s infrastructure, the cabinet minister Pat McFadden will warn at a Nato conference in London on Monday.

The chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster will announce the creation of a research programme in London, called the Laboratory for AI Security Research (LASR), to keep on top of emerging threats as he warns there is a risk that Russia will try to knock out the electricity grid.

There is a danger that artificial intelligence “could be weaponised against us,” McFadden will warn, arguing that the UK is already engaged in the “daily reality” of a “cyberwar,” with hacking efforts coming in particular from Russia.

Over the past year, Russia’s criminals and hackers have “stepped up their attacks” against the UK, he will add, and targeted other Nato allies who have been supporting Ukraine with military aid as it tries to fight off Russian aggression.

Hello and welcome to the Guardian’s live coverage of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A Russian attack on Ukraine’s northeastern city of Kharkiv injured at least 10 people on Monday morning, its mayor, Oleh Syniehubov, said. The attack reportedly caused a fire on one of the city’s central streets and damaged civilian infrastructure and cars.

There is also a report in the Ukrainian outlet Ukrinform that Russian drones damaged an infrastructure facility in Zaporizhzhia, where a 16-year-old girl was injured in an attack.

There was also a drone strike on Kyiv in the early hours of the morning, according to officials. There were no immediate report of casualties. “As a result of the attack by drones of the armed forces of the Russian Federation on Kyiv in the Dnipro district of the capital, a balcony window on the 9th floor of a 9-story residential building caught fire. Information about the victims is being ascertained,” Serhiy Popko, the head of the Kyiv city military administration, wrote on Telegram.

Elsewhere, Russian forces attacked energy infrastructure in Ukraine’s southern region of Mykolaiv overnight, its governor, Vitaliy Kim, said in a post on Telegram. The engineers restored power to most of the consumers facing affected by the power cuts in the attack’s aftermath as of the morning.

Here are some of the other latest developments in the war:

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he fears that Ukraine will become “a testing ground” for Russian munitions, with the country being targeted by nearly 500 drones in the past week, as well as more than 20 missiles. Though Russia’s first ever use of the Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile on Dnipro on Thursday captured global attention, on Sunday Zelenskyy highlighted the increased level of Shahed drone attacks. Ukraine says Russia has set up two factories to make the distinctive Iran-designed, delta-winged Shahed 136 drones, called Geran-2 by Moscow, about 800 miles from the border in Ukraine.

• Seven Ukrainian missiles and seven drones were destroyed overnight over Russia’s Kursk, the governor of the region that borders Ukraine said. “Our air defence fighters repelled the attack of the Ukrainian Armed Forces last night,” Kursk regional governor Alexei Smirnov wrote on his Telegram channel. Ukraine launched a surprise incursion into the Kursk region in August, but has since lost more than 40% of the territory it had captured as Russian forces have mounted waves of counter-assaults, a senior Ukrainian military source told Reuters.

• Falling debris from destroyed Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at an industrial facility in Russia’s Kaluga, officials said early on Monday. Vladislav Shapsha, the regional governor, said that there were no injuries and that three drones were destroyed. He did not say which facility was on fire.

• A British national has reportedly been captured by Russia’s forces in the Kursk region while fighting for Ukraine. In a video posted on pro-war Russian Telegram channels on Sunday, a man wearing combat fatigues identifies himself as 22-year-old James Scott Rhys Anderson from the UK. The man, speaking with an English accent, says that he served as a signalman in the British army until 2023 before joining the International Legion in Ukraine to fight against Russia.