The Russian military accused Kyiv of using US and British-supplied missiles and promised the strikes would "not go unanswered".

Ukraine struck Russian regions with a major drone and missile attack overnight, damaging at least two factories and forcing schools to close in a major southern Russian city, according to Russian officials and media.

Flights cancelled as Kyiv strikes southern Russia in major drone and missile attack - Russia says more than 200 drones and five US-made missiles involved in attack

President-elect Donald Trump says that he is ready to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the meeting is being arranged, though he gave no timeline for when it might take place. “He wants to meet, and we are setting it up,” Trump told a reporter late Thursday at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

The US President-elect Donald Trump intends to meet with Vladimir Putin as soon as possible, stating that the end of the war against Ukraine depends on him, Reuters reports. In an interview with Newsmax,