As we've been reporting, earlier President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia sent 500 drones as well as 40 missiles in the attack on Kyiv. The city's mayor, Vitaliy Klitschko, said emergency power outage schedules are now in place while "4,000 residential buildings in the capital are without heat due to damage to the power supply system".

Italian firms could lose up to €250 million after the EU renewed its ban on sanitary ware exports to Russia under the bloc’s 19th sanctions package.

Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meet President Donald Trump in Florida this weekend, but Russia accused the Ukrainian president and his EU backers on Friday of seeking to ’torpedo’ a US-brokered plan to stop the fighting.

Polish fighter jets have been scrambled on its border with Ukraine, after the Ukrainian capital Kyiv was hit by Russian missiles and drones overnight.

President Emmanuel Macron has previously denied that Laurent Vinatier worked for the French state and has described his arrest as part of a misinformation campaign by Moscow.

Widespread aerial attacks marked Christmas 2025 in the Russia-Ukraine war, as Russian and Ukrainian forces exchanged drone and missile strikes on civilian and energy infrastructure in border regions. The escalation followed renewed international peace talks, with negotiators struggling to overcome divides between Moscow and Kyiv.

Russia has ordered a winter troop surge to break the stalemate in Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks on logistics and resupply channels will undermine this offensive.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy will discuss territorial issues, the main stumbling block in talks to end the war, with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida on Sunday, as a 20-point peace framework and a security guarantees deal near completion.