Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv marks 1,000 days of invasion as Moscow vows response to Biden’s missile move

Seven people including a child were killed in a Russian drone attack on the northeast Ukrainian region of Sumy, Ukrainian resident Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday.

The drone attack on a residential building in Hlukhiv, a small residential town bordering Russia, left 12 people wounded including two children, Sumy’s military administration said on Telegram.

"Every new Russian strike only confirms [Russian President Vladimir] Putin’s true intentions. He wants the war to continue, he is not interested in talking about peace," Mr Zelensky said.

A video shared by Mr Zelensky shows emergency workers sifting through the rubble after two drones partially destroyed the building.

Russian forces have heavily bombarded the region of Sumy in recent months. A missile strike on Sunday killed 11 people and injured 89.

The Ukrainian air force said it show down 51 out of 87 drones launched by Russia overnight on Tuesday.

It lost track of the remaining 30 drones on its radars, and one was still flying in Ukrainian airspace, the force added.

Ukraine’s military said it struck a Russian arsenal near the city of Karachev in Bryansk region overnight.

The Ukrainian general staff said it recorded 12 secondary explosions and detonations in the target area.

Britain will “help keep the lights of Ukraine on in the face of Putin’s aggression”, David Lammy said, as Kyiv marks a “grim milestone” of 1,000 days since Russia’s invasion.

Speaking alongside his Ukrainian counterpart Andrii Sybiha, the foreign secretary condemned Moscow’s recent attack on Ukraine, adding: “It was designed not only to kill Ukrainians, but to take out effectively Ukraine’s power infrastructure and to cause blackouts.”

“Putin wants to plunge Ukraine into darkness. But today, standing here with my friend, the Ukrainian foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha, the UK is showing our support to Ukraine is ironclad.

“We will help keep the lights of Ukraine on in the face of Putin’s aggression, and that matters not just for Ukraine’s security, Britain’s security or indeed Europe’s security.”

Vladimir Putin has maintained a cold silence over Washington allowing Ukraine to strike with Russia with its American-made Army Tactical Missile System, or ATACMs.

However, early signals from the Kremlin warned that Mr Biden is adding “fuel to the fire” of the war and would escalate international tensions even higher.

Mr Biden’s decision almost entirely was triggered by North Korea’s entry into the fight, according to a US official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, and was made just before he left for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Peru.

“This is a signal the Biden administration is sending to North Korea and Russia, indicating that the decision to involve North Korean units has crossed a red line,” according to Glib Voloskyi, an analyst at the CBA Initiatives Center, a Kyiv-based think tank.

Six people were killed, including a child, in Russia’s drone attack on Ukraine’s northeastern region of Sumy, regional officials said this morning.

At least 12 people were injured in the drone attack on a residential dormitory in the small town of Hlukhiv, the military administration of the Sumy region, which borders Russia, said on the Telegram channel.

David Lammy said “one president at a time” when asked how concerned he was about the implications of Donald Trump’s presidency for the war in Ukraine.

Speaking to press after a meeting of the UN security council, the foreign secretary said: “I’ve studied in this country, I’ve worked in this country, and I know that there’s a simple rule: one president at a time.

“We’re dealing with President Biden and we are committed to putting Ukraine in the strongest possible position.”

The clock on her wall stopped almost as soon as the day began, its hands frozen by the Russian bomb that hit the dormitory serving as home for Ukrainians displaced by war.

It was 1.45am in an upstairs room in the eastern city of Zaporizhzhia, Natalia Panasenko’s home for just shy of a year after the town she thinks of as her real home came under Russian occupation. The explosion blasted a door on top of her, smashed her refrigerator and television and shredded the flowers she’d just received for her 63rd birthday.

“The house was full of people and flowers. People were congratulating me ... and then there was nothing. Everything was mixed in the rubble,” she said. “I come from a place where the war is going on every day. We only just left there, and it seemed to be quieter here. And the war caught up with us again.”