A fire is reported at an apartment building in Moscow, in the latest of two apparent Ukrainian attacks inside Russia. In Ukraine, meanwhile, at least 18 civilians are said to have been killed in strikes – while Volodymyr Zelenskyy addresses NATO members at a summit in the Netherlands.
Tuesday 24 June 2025 17:15, UK
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player
We’re pausing our coverage for today, but will be back soon with more updates on the war in Ukraine.
Here are the key lines from today:
You can follow the latest from the NATO summit in Sky’s Politics Hub here…
Norway has said it will provide $641.9m to Ukraine for the procurement of drones and drone technology from Ukrainian and other European manufacturers.
“Drones play a vital part in Ukraine’s fight to defend itself,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a statement this afternoon.
“They are important both to protect critical infrastructure and for use on the frontline.”
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been calling on allies for more air defences for his country.
This follows Russia stepping up its air strikes on Ukraine in recent weeks, particularly its capital Kyiv.
We reported earlier that Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet during the NATO summit this week.
And now Trump has set off from the US and made reference to his visit to The Hague in a post on Truth Social here…
The meeting comes at a time when Ukraine is calling for more air defences and weapons from allies.
There is also the question of whether a peace deal can be struck between Ukraine and Russia, something Trump has been pushing for.
A little more detail on one of the Russian missile attacks mentioned in the previous post, in which officials say nine people were killed in the southeastern Dnipro region.
The two-wave strike killed seven in the regional capital of Dnipro, said governor Serhiy Lysak, and nearly 70 people including 10 children were injured.
Two people were also killed in the town of Samar, around six miles from Dnipro.
Russia has stepped up air strikes on Ukraine in recent weeks, particularly its capital Kyiv, where 28 people were killed in an attack on 17 June.
Another 10 people were also killed in air attacks on Kyiv and the surrounding region yesterday.
Officials in Ukraine say Russian drones, missiles and artillery have killed at least 18 civilians and injured more than 100 others.
Russian forces have relentlessly bombarded civilian areas of Ukraine throughout the war, which is now in its fourth year.
More than 12,000 Ukrainian civilians have been killed, according to the United Nations. Ukraine has also launched long-range drones against Russia, hitting residential areas.
A Russian ballistic missile attack on Dnipro hit multiple civilian sites in the central Ukrainian city around midday on Tuesday, killing nine people and injuring scores more, local officials said.
In the nearby town of Samar, an attack killed two people and injured 11, Dnipro’s regional administration head Serhii Lysak wrote on Telegram.
Russia also shelled residentianeighbourhoodsds and critical infrastructure across Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson, killing four civilians and wounding at least 11 others, according to Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the regional military administration.
As previously reported, in the Sumy region of north-eastern Ukraine, a drone attack last night killed three civilians, including a five-year-old boy, and injured six others, local authorities said.
Among the injured were two 17-year-old girls and a 12-year-old boy, according to officials.
Meanwhile, Russian air defence forces overnight shot down 20 Ukrainian drones, the Russian Defence Ministry reported this morning. It said 14 were downed over the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine, while two had been flying over the Moscow province.
One drone slammed into a tower block on the outskirts of the Russian capital, sparking a fire on its 17th floor, local governor Andrei Vorobyov said today. He said a 34-year-old resident suffered shrapnel wounds to his arm and leg. Two other drones were shot down on the approach to Moscow, according to mayor Sergei Sobyanin.
Air traffic was briefly halted as a precaution at two major Moscow airports, a representative of Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsiya said.
Russia continues to “only diplomatically support Iran”, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) reports.
The US-based thinktank states notes that Vladimir Putin met with the Iranian foreign affairs minister Abbas Araghchi in Moscow yesterday and condemned recent Israeli and American strikes against Iran.
He also said Russia was making every effort to help the Iranian people.
Araghchi, in turn, thanked Russia for its condemnation of the strikes against Iran.
Prior to the meeting, an Iranian source told Reuters that Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei sent Araghchi to Moscow to deliver a letter from Khamenei to Putin requesting more assistance from Russia.
So what can we make of this?
The ISW continues to assess that “Russia is constrained in its ability to provide direct support to Iran due to its war in Ukraine” and “has likely resigned itself to providing diplomatic overtures for the time being”.
This showcases “limitations in the Russian-Iranian strategic relationship”.
Further to reports we brought you earlier on a Russian drone attack on a village in the Sumy area overnight, which killed an eight-year-old boy and two adults (see post at 12pm), images are now emerging from the scene.
Russia has not commented on the strikes.
Volodymyr Zelenskyy is giving an address to world leaders at the NATO summit.
He urges leaders to “increase your investments in Ukraine” and says all the weapons produced will become part of a new and stronger European defence.
The Ukrainian leader says “there are no signs that Vladimir Putin wants to end this war”.
“Russia rejects all peace proposals, including those from the US,” he says.
“Putin only thinks about war.”
He says there is no significant Russian weapon today that is produced without components, equipment or materials from other countries, including Europe.
“This must stop,” he adds.
“Such components can be found in every Russian missile, in most of their drones and in military vehicles.”
We reported earlier on comments Volodymyr Zelenskyy made to our chief presenter Mark Austin in which he said he plans to meet with Donald Trump during the NATO summit this week (see post at 8.37am).
He said Ukrainian and US teams were working on organisational details and the timing of the meeting.
Now, the White House has confirmed that Donald Trump is scheduled to meet Zelenskyy at some point during the NATO summit in The Hague.
The last time the pair sat down with each other was on the sidelines of Pope Francis’s funeral in April.
The brief meeting came at a crucial time for Ukraine, amid concerns that the US could scale back support for Kyiv and abandon peace talks.
It also followed a disastrous showdown between Trump and Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, which saw the Ukrainian leader’s visit ended prematurely – with the signing of a mineral’s deal agreement and a joint news conference with Trump cancelled.
By chief presenter Mark Austin
He’s an embattled wartime leader struggling to make himself heard.
For Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the war in Iran could not have come at a worse time.
Suddenly, the world’s attention is on a different conflict and – most crucially so – is the attention of the most powerful man in the world, Donald Trump.
But this is a big 24 hours for Zelenskyy, a meeting with Sir Keir Starmer in Downing Street, followed by the NATO summit in The Hague.
When I sat down with Mr Zelenskyy in the last few hours, he had two main issues on his mind.
You can read Austin’s full analysis here…
Be the first to get Breaking News
Install the Sky News app for free