The papers: Putin bombs civilians and Scots escape Ukraine
Warning: Some of the front pages include distressing images.
Many of the front pages focus on the escalating Russian attacks on Ukraine's two biggest cities - Kyiv and Kharkiv. The i says a "frustrated" Moscow is changing its tactics to strike residential targets, with dozens killed and hundreds wounded.
The Press and Journal reports that high-level peace talks on the Belarus border ended without a breakthrough - though officials could meet again within days. The paper says as leaders met, explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv which were likened to the Blitz in World War Two.
The Metro's headline quotes a Scottish man who made it across the border into Poland with his wife and two young children on Sunday night. The family decided to leave their home west of Kyiv when Russian forces attacked a nearby air base on Thursday, the paper says.
Ken Stewart's story also makes it on the front page of the Edinburgh Evening News. The paper says he and wife Tanya spent 38 hours in a queue of traffic at the Polish border.
The Daily Telegraph's headline quotes a doctor who fought in vain to save a six-year-old girl who was caught in the shelling of flats in the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. "Show this to Putin - the eyes of this child and crying doctors," he told a video journalist who witnessed the scene.
The Daily Express brands the situation "monstrous" and says the "heartbreaking image" exposes "the brutal reality of Putin's senseless war". A woman - who the paper says is thought to be the girl's mother - waits helplessly in the foreground as the doctor tries to save the girl's life.
The Times quotes Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who describes the Russian strikes against innocent civilians as "barbaric" and has pledged more military aid for Ukraine. Amnesty International is among the organisations to call for an investigation into war crimes, while the International Criminal Court's prosecutor is seeking approval to look into crimes against humanity, the paper reports.
A woman was told by the Home Office to leave Scotland and go back to Ukraine to apply for a UK spouse visa days before the Russian invasion, reports the Daily Record. The paper says Natalya Fisher is now trying to leave the country to return home to her husband Peter in Boddam, Aberdeenshire.
The Daily Mail contrasts what it calls the "inhumanity" of President Putin with the generosity of its readers, who have raised £1.2m for Ukrainian refugees in just two days. The paper says there has been a "dramatic escalation of hostilities" in Ukraine and pictures a fireball lighting up the sky above the capital Kyiv following an explosion.
The Herald says western allies have continued to "pummel" Russian with sanctions including blocking trade routes in order to "reduce the rouble to rubble". The paper highlights that even neutral Switzerland confirmed it would sanction Russia while the EU approved a £420m humanitarian aid package.
The UK's tougher new sanctions make the front page of The Scotsman, including a freeze on all Russian banks within days. The paper quotes Prime Minister Boris Johnson saying Vladimir Putin has made a "colossal mistake", while Foreign Secretary Liz Truss warned the UK would have to suffer economic hardship due to the measures.
The National says Nicola Sturgeon's plea to waive visa restrictions in order to help fleeing Ukrainians "fell on deaf ears" on Monday. It says Priti Patel dismissed the move, but said up to 100,000 people could come to the UK as a result of a "bespoke humanitarian route".
The Daily Star says President Putin's war is "not going totally to plan". The paper has pictures of a tractor towing away a Russian army tank, which it says was stolen by a farmer.
Away from the Ukraine conflict, the Glasgow Times leads with a nurse who fears she may have to stop work at the age of 44 due to the effects of long Covid.
A seven-year-old girl from Fife told her mother she "wanted to die" because of bullying she faced in school, reports The Courier.
The Evening Telegraph leads with a woman who was left in a hospital chair for 19 hours "shattered and starving".
And the Evening Express reports that the pedestrianisation of an Aberdeen high street has been thrown into doubt as councillors clash over the plans.
