The Meteor is a powerful weapon that Ukraine says would give it a fighting chance against the aircraft carrying highly destructive glide bombs.

US President Donald Trump wrote after a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Indian leader is willing to abandon the purchase of Russian oil and linked this to the possibility of a faster end to Russia's war against Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Russia would regard the deployment of any foreign military forces or infrastructure in Ukraine as foreign intervention and treat those forces as legitimate targets, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday,

Twelve people have been killed by a Russian drone strike near a company shuttle bus in eastern Ukraine, a regional official has said. Preliminary information also found seven others were injured by the strike in the Dnipropetrovsk region, regional military administration chief Oleksandr Ganzha wrote on Telegram.

As losses mount, the pace of Russia's advance has at times been slower than the Battle of the Somme during World War I, a report says.

Emergency power cuts have hit several Ukrainian cities and neighboring Moldova. Ukraine’s Energy Minister says a technical malfunction caused the outages, affecting power lines between Ukraine and Moldova.

It was unclear why the latest round of negotiations, which had been expected on Sunday, were postponed for several days.

Exclusive: Vitaliy Kim, who was handpicked by Zelensky to be governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast region in Ukraine, has signalled a shift towards compromise in an interview with The Independent