Ukraine said yesterday it had received from Russia the remains of 1,000 people that Moscow said were killed Ukrainian soldiers, in the latest repatriation between the two sides.

European countries yesterday pushed back against a US-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine’s allies as tantamount to capitulation.

Russia pummelled Ukrainian cities with missiles and drones overnight, killing at least 25 people and throwing doubt over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s attempts to “reinvigorate” the peace process with talks in Ankara later yesterday.

Russia launched a massive drone and missile attack on Kyiv early yesterday, killing eight people and wounding dozens in strikes on energy facilities, apartment buildings and infrastructure, Ukrainian officials said.

Ukrainian strikes on energy infrastructure have left more than 20,000 people without power in several Russian border regions, local authorities said yesterday.

A Russian attack hit Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, killing two people and prompting power cuts in several regions, Ukrainian authorities said yesterday.

A Ukrainian drone attack damaged at least two foreign vessels and the oil terminal infrastructure at Russia’s key Black Sea port of Tuapse yesterday, as Kyiv tries to undermine Russia’s war effort by targeting its energy infrastructure.

Russia fired more missiles at Ukraine in October than in any month since at least the start of 2023 as it pounded the country’s energy grid in night-time attacks, an AFP analysis of Ukrainian data showed.

The governor of Russia’s Belgorod region said yesterday that Ukraine had struck a dam on a local reservoir, causing damage.

Britain yesterday urged fellow allies of Ukraine to reach a deal to use frozen Russian assets to strengthen its hand for any future peace talks, as President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in London for talks with those allies.

Russia and Ukraine pounded each other with heavy overnight missile attacks as diplomatic efforts to end the war faltered, with the White House saying there were no imminent plans for presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin to meet.

Russian strikes caused widespread blackouts and cut off phone networks in the northern Ukrainian city of Chernigiv, with repairs stalled by ongoing drone attacks yesterday.

Ukrainian drones attacked the Orenburg gas processing plant, the world’s largest facility of its kind, and damaged part of it but no employees were hurt in the attack, the region’s governor said yesterday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets Donald Trump at the White House yesterday, seeking US-made Tomahawk missiles even as the US president readies for a fresh summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

Will send Tomahawks to Zelensky if war is not settled, said Trump

US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth yesterday warned Moscow that the United States and its allies would “impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression” if the war in Ukraine does not come to an end.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky urged Donald Trump to broker peace in Ukraine like in “the Middle East” during a phone call Saturday, saying if Trump could stop one war, “others can be stopped as well”.

Large parts of Kyiv were plunged into darkness in the early hours of Friday after Russian drones and missiles struck Ukrainian energy facilities, cutting power and water to homes and halting a key metro link across the Dnipro river.

The head of Ukraine’s railways yesterday said that Russia was intensifying a campaign of air strikes on the network in an attempt to isolate frontline communities ahead of winter.

Russia overnight carried out its largest attack on Ukraine’s gas network since Moscow first invaded in 2022, Kyiv’s state-owned gas operator said yesterday.