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Ukraine<\/a> has attacked three Russian oil drilling platforms in the Caspian Sea, according to its military.
\u201cDirect hits have been recorded,\u201d it said in a post on Telegram on Sunday, adding: \u201cThe extent of the damage is being assessed.\u201d
The infrastructure is said to be owned by Russia<\/a>\u2019s Lukoil Corporation. Dramatic drone footage shows the overnight attack although Kyiv<\/a> did not share further details of the operation.
It comes as the Ministry of Defence<\/a> announced it will develop new tactical ballistic missiles<\/a> for Ukraine, code-naming the initiative “Project Nightfall”.
Defence secretary John Healey<\/a> said the UK<\/a> was determined to arm Ukrainians with advanced weapons to fight back against Vladimir Putin’s invasion<\/a>.
Later on Monday the UN Security Council is due to hold an emergency meeting to discuss Russia’s use of its Oreshnik hypersonic missile<\/a> just 60 miles from the border of Nato member Poland.
Russia<\/a> has claimed the Oreshnik strike was retaliation for an attempted Ukrainian drone attack on one of Putin\u2019s residences, an allegation Kyiv<\/a> denies.
Russian president Vladimir Putin\u2019s full-scale war against Ukraine has now outlasted the Soviet Union’s fight with Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Volodymyr Zelensky said.
Zelensky said the war in Ukraine entered its 1,418th day on Sunday, surpassing the number of days of fighting between Nazi forces and the Soviet Union. Germany invaded Soviet territory around two years into WW2, in June 1941.
Comparing Russia’s tactics in Ukraine to those of the Nazis, Zelensky accused Moscow of replicating 20th-century fascism.
\u201cRussia’s large-scale war against Ukraine has been going on for as long as Nazi Germany’s war against the Soviet Union,” he said.
\u201cToday marks the 1,418th day of Russia’s war against Ukraine. They wanted to repeat and did repeat the mockery of people – repeated fascism, repeated almost all the worst things that happened in the 20th century.
“The Kremlin has failed to achieve its military goals in Ukraine despite the years-long campaign, he noted.
\u201cBut still, the Russians are trying to capture the same Donbas as almost four years ago,” Zelensky said.
The UK says it will develop new tactical ballistic missiles for Kyiv and put \u201cleading-edge weapons into the hands of Ukrainians\u201d for their fight against Russia.
Code-named \u201cProject Nightfall\u201d, the missiles will help boost Ukrainian <\/a>firepower and be capable of striking targets deep inside Russia, the Ministry of Defence said in a statement late on Sunday.
The Nightfall missiles will carry a 200kg conventional high-explosive warhead and cost a maximum \u00a3800,000 per unit, the MoD announced, adding that it plans to produce 10 systems per month.
The announcement came days after Russia attacked Ukraine with its new hypersonic Oreshnik missile, striking a city about 60 miles from the border of Nato member Poland, with European leaders condemning the incident as a \u201cclear escalation\u201d and an attempt to \u201cinstil fear\u201d.
Arpan Rai reports:<\/em>
Sweden\u2019s foreign minister Maria Malmer Stenergard has said that the pressure on Russia \u201chas to be increased\u201d as she called for tighter sanctions.
\u201cThe pressure on Russia has to be increased,\u201d she said on Monday.
She proposed total bans on European companies providing services to Russian shops carrying oil, coal, and gas, and sanctions on the exports of Russian fertiliser (Russia\u2019s third-biggest export to the EU).
\u201cNo transport, no reloading of goods between ships, no insurance and no port repairs.\u201d
She added: \u201cAnd we want to put an end to exports of luxury goods from the EU to Russia.
\u201cIt irritates me that rich Russian consumers can wear expensive Italian clothing brands and drink fine French wines.\u201d
As Ukraine<\/a> is gripped by a bitter cold snap, more than one million people have been left without heating and electricity<\/a> as Russia<\/a> ramps up attacks on energy infrastructure.
Elderly residents and those with vulnerable family members told The Independent<\/em> they are cold and unable to cook proper meals as they face temperatures as low as -15C.
Despondent and fearing death, many are struggling through the winter as blackouts plunge Ukraine\u2019s cities into darkness, lit up only by the bright flash of Russian drone and missile attacks<\/a>.
\u201cIt gives you depression,\u201d 33-year-old Dnipro resident Kyril Tulenev says. \u201cYou cannot do anything. You cannot check the news. You cannot properly use your things. Sometimes you cannot call anyone because there is no connection.\u201d
Russia says that the target of its strike with a hypersonic Oreshnik missile last week was a Ukrainian aircraft repair plant.
The attack was condemned by Ukraine and Europe, who accused Russia of attempting to intimidate the West.
It marked the second time Russia had used an intermediate-range ballistic missile during the war.
\u201cThis enterprise carried out repairs and maintenance of Ukrainian armed forces aviation equipment, including F-16 and MiG-29 aircraft transferred by Western countries,\u201d Russia\u2019s defence ministry said on Monday.
\u201cThe company also produced long- and medium-range attack drones used to strike Russian civilian targets deep within Russian territory.\u201d
A Ukrainian official told Reuters that the missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons, was loaded with inert dummy warheads and was capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
Russia said the strike was in response to an alleged attack on Preside Vladimir Putin\u2019s personal residence in Valdai last month.
The number of civilian deaths in Ukraine rose sharply last year, according to the UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Conflict-related violence killed 2,514 civilians last year and injured 12,142, marking a 31 per cent rise from 2024.
The vast majority of the attacks occurred in territories controlled by the Ukrainian government, according to the figures.
Estonia has stopped the entry of 261 Russians involved in the war in Ukraine.
The country\u2019s foreign minister Margus Tsahkna wrote in a statement on X\/Twitter on Monday: \u201cEstonia imposed entry bans on the first 261 of Russian combatants who took part in the war of aggression against Ukraine \u2013 and this is only the beginning.\u201d
He continued: \u201cThey have no place in Estonia and in the Schengen area.\u201d
\u201cWe will keep working to ensure the door stays closed to Russian ex-combatants, and we call on other countries to do the same,\u201d he said.
Russian authorities are to clamp down on \u201cinternational enemies\u201d, according to Belgorod\u2019s governor Vyacheslav Gladkov in a statement on Monday.
It comes after the region\u2019s energy infrastructure was targeted, leaving over 550,000 residents without power.
Gladkov said that the energy supply situation had become \u201cextremely dire\u201d and that \u201cenergy capacity losses are reaching practically a catastrophic scale\u201d.
He called for \u201cmonitoring\u201d that would uncover \u201cattempts to provoke the population in order to destabilise an already extremely difficult situation\u201d and \u201cstir up social tensions\u201d, adding that Ukraine had engaged in \u201cinformation attacks\u201d.
President Donald Trump has lashed out at Nato in a Truth Social post on Monday.
The American leader wrote: \u201cI\u2019m the one who saved Nato!!!\u201d
It comes after ongoing disagreements about the US\u2019s right to takeover Greenland, which Trump has said is necessary for his country\u2019s \u201cnational security\u201d and the security of the rest of the world.
European officials have warned that the US purchasing Greenland would mark the end of Nato as an alliance.
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