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Ukraine shoots down 39 drones overnight as power cut in regions across Ukraine
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Russia<\/a> has suffered its deadliest day of the Ukraine<\/a> war, Kyiv has claimed, alleging that Vladimir Putin<\/a>\u2019s forces suffered record daily high of 1,770 losses as they continue their offensive in the east.
While Moscow<\/a> is making significant gains in the Donbas region, the UK\u2019s armed forces chief Admiral Anthony Radakin also said on Sunday that Russian casualties averaged 1,500 every day last month.
Meanwhile, air raid alerts were issued across Ukraine as it braces for an anticipated wave of mass Russian cruise missile strikes targeting energy infrastructure.
Power cuts were introduced in the Kyiv, Odesa, Dnipropetrovsk and Donetsk regions as a preventive measure, Ukrainian energy provider DTEK said, as the Ukrainian air force reported shooting down 39 of 74 drones launched by Russia overnight.
Five people were killed in the Mykolaiv region and one was killed in the Zaporizhzhia region, where a residential building was destroyed, regional governors said, with five children among at least 21 injured.
It came a day after both countries accused the other of launching their largest drone attacks yet.
The Kremlin has claimed that reports Donald Trump spoke with Vladimir Putin in recent days are \u201cpure fiction\u201d.
The Washington Post<\/em> first reported that the call had taken place, citing unidentified sources close to the matter, and that Mr Trump had told Mr Putin that he should not escalate the Ukraine war<\/a>. Reuters also reported on the call, citing an unidentified source.
\u201cThis is completely untrue. This is pure fiction, it\u2019s just false information,\u201d Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov claimed. \u201cThere was no conversation.\u201d
\u201cThis is the most obvious example of the quality of the information that is being published now, sometimes even in fairly reputable publications,\u201d Mr Peskov said.
Asked whether Mr Putin had plans for any contacts with Mr Trump, he said: \u201cThere are no concrete plans yet.\u201d
A British family has paid tribute to their \u201cbrave\u201d son who has been killed while fighting in Ukraine.
Callum Tindal-Draper, 22, from Gunnislake, Cornwall, was killed in action while serving with the foreign volunteer platoon in the country\u2019s struggle against Russia. In an interview with the BBC, his father Steven Draper said he begged his son not to travel to Ukraine, but he told him he was \u201cnot frightened of bullies\u201d.
\u201cWe begged and begged and begged him not to go,\u201d his father said. \u201cBut Callum said \u2018dad, I\u2019m not frightened of bullies and what\u2019s going on in Ukraine is awful and someone needs to stand up for these people\u2019.\u201d
In a tribute, his mother Caroline Tindal wrote: \u201cHe fought till he could no longer hold them off any more and his platoon are calling him a \u2018hero\u2019 and \u2018As brave as they come\u2019. 22 is a young age. But you lived and died following your heart, soul and morals.\u201d
Callum Tindal-Draper was killed in action while serving with the foreign volunteer platoon
Britain should move past the \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the US, the frontrunner to become the UK\u2019s next ambassador in Washington has said \u2013 amid fears over the impact of Donald Trump\u2019s second presidency on the US\u2019s relationship with Europe, Nato and Ukraine.
Peter Mandelson is a favourite to replace Dame Karen Pierce, who is overseeing the transition to Donald Trump\u2019s second administration.
The Labour grandee, a key architect of Tony Blair\u2019s New Labour, said it is time for a \u201cnew relationship\u201d with the US.
Our political correspondent <\/em>Archie Mitchell <\/em><\/strong>reports:<\/em>
Peter Mandelson is a favourite to replace Dame Karen Pierce as the UK\u2019s ambassador to the US
Russia has suffered its deadliest day of the Ukraine war, Kyiv has claimed, alleging that Vladimir Putin\u2019s forces suffered record daily high of 1,770 losses as they continue their offensive in the east.
While Moscow is making significant gains in the Donbas region, the UK\u2019s armed forces chief Admiral Anthony Radakin also said on Sunday that Russian casualties averaged 1,500 every day last month.
\u201cRussia is about to suffer 700,000 people killed or wounded \u2013 the enormous pain and suffering that the Russian nation is having to bear because of Putin\u2019s ambition,\u201d he told the BBC on Sunday.
He said that while Russia was making gains and putting pressure on Ukraine, the losses were \u201cfor tiny increments of land\u201d, adding that the cost of the war \u2013 which he put at more than 40 per cent of public expenditure on defence and security \u2013 is also \u201can enormous drain\u201d on Russia.
Ukraine\u2019s Kurakhove is surrounded on three sides, with Russian forces just under two miles from the devastated city centre.
Yet between 700 and 1,000 local residents remain, most of them living in the basements of apartment buildings, without running water, heating or electricity. The only place to charge phones is in the basement of the building now housing the city administration.
The exact number of people is impossible to determine because, since mid-October, no humanitarian volunteers have come to Kurakhove.
Under attack from artillery, multiple rocket launchers, aerial bombs and drones, Kurakhove has become the new Bakhmut, as Russia continues its drive westward to capture all of the Donbas region. On Friday, Volodymyr Zelensky called the situation in Kurakhove, as well as the key city of Pokrovsk, \u201cthe most challenging\u201d.
Anton Shtuka <\/em><\/strong>and<\/em> Evgeniy Maloletka <\/em><\/strong>report:<\/em>
The road to Kurakhove, which is lined with burned-out civilian vehicles, is nicknamed the \u2018road of death\u2019
The UK\u2019s defence secretary John Healey has rejected reported comments by Ukrainian officials suggesting Kyiv is unhappy with the Labour government\u2019s level of support.
He told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today <\/em>show that it is \u201csimply not correct\u201d to say the situation is not the same as it was under Rishi Sunak and has worsened under the new administration, after The Guardian<\/em> reported officials in Kyiv as having said relations have deteriorated since Labour took office, voicing frustration over the failure to provide additional long-range weapons.
Asked about the reported remarks, Mr Healey said: \u201cThat is simply not correct. We\u2019ve stepped up with more military support. We\u2019ve speeded up deliveries. We\u2019re now spending more on military aid for Ukraine than ever before as a UK government, and I spoke at length to the defence minister in Ukraine yesterday.
\u201cHe certainly doesn\u2019t see the UK support weakening, and he said the Ukrainians are confident in Britain\u2019s continuing and steadfast support for their country.\u201d
The world will have to \u201cwait and see\u201d what Donald Trump \u201creally proposes\u201d over Ukraine, the UK\u2019s defence secretary has said.
John Healey told BBC Breakfast: \u201cWe\u2019ll have to wait and see what President Trump really proposes … but if the reports of his call with Putin last week are right then President Trump is exactly right to warn Putin against escalation of the conflict in Ukraine.
\u201cAnd our task as a nation supporting Ukraine, one of its leading supporters, alongside allies like France, is to step up our support to reinforce the position that Ukraine has at this period where it\u2019s under great pressure from Russia.\u201d
Images from photojournalists have shown the impact of Russian drone attacks on the southern Mykolaiv region, where at least five people have been killed in overnight attacks.
It is \u201cUkraine that gets to call when the talking starts\u201d, Britain\u2019s defence secretary has said, after a Trump ally appeared to suggest that the war could end if Kyiv was open to ceding land to Russia.
John Healey told BBC Breakfast: \u201cBecause of the strength of bipartisan support in the US and a recognition that it\u2019s in no one\u2019s interest to let an aggressor like Putin redraw international boundaries by force, I expect the US to remain steadfast alongside countries like the UK.
\u201cWe can do more to support Ukraine. We\u2019re doing that at the moment, and that will be part of the discussion that Prime Minister Starmer has with President Macron this morning in Paris.\u201d
Asked what the UK\u2019s reaction to the suggestion that the war could come to a conclusion if there was support within Ukraine to give away land to Russia, he said: \u201cIt\u2019s Ukraine that gets to call when the talking starts. Our job is to support Ukraine, stand by them when they fight, stand by them if they decide to talk.
\u201cThis could be ended today if Putin withdrew following his illegal invasion … that\u2019s the way this conflict could be ended, and the importance for us for Europe and for the United States is that Putin in the long run does not prevail, because if he does prevail, he will not stop at Ukraine, and the cost to us all will be much greater in the future.\u201d
Defence secretary John Healey has denied that Donald Trump\u2019s incoming administration turning away from Nato would leave the UK in a \u201cweak position\u201d.
Asked whether the loss of US backing would put us in \u201ca very weak and exposed position\u201d, Mr Healey told Sky News: \u201cNo, we wouldn\u2019t be in a weak position. I don\u2019t expect the US to turn away from Nato. They recognise the importance of the alliance. They recognise the importance of avoiding further conflict in Europe.\u201d
The US support for Nato \u201cgoes back decades, and that has remained, including through the previous President Trump administration\u201d, Mr Healey said, adding: \u201cHe pushed, rightly, he pushed European nations to do more, to front Nato better.\u201d
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