International Energy Agency says coming winter will be hard as country has lost more than two-thirds of energy production capacity since Russian invasion.   12:59 Nato’s current military spending target will not be enough to protect the alliance as it braces for an increasingly assertive Russia,

Over the past few months, Kyiv has grown in confidence and ambition as it has ramped up drone attacks inside Russia. It’s struck as far as 1,800km (1,118 miles) in the past, when a long-range radar was hit in the city of Orsk.

Ukraine's air force said on Thursday it had shot down all 42 drones and one of four missiles used by Russia during overnight attacks. Air defences went into operation in nine Ukrainian regions, the air force said in a statement on the Telegram messaging app nearly 31 months after Russia's full-scale invasion.