Ukraine-Russia war live: Five-hour air raid sirens in the east after Kyiv downs warplane in Donetsk

Here is a roundup of the events that happened on Saturday:

• Ukraine will present ‘victory plan’ at Ramstein meeting

  • Ukraine will present its "victory plan" at a regular meeting of its allies at Ramstein in Germany on October 12, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

• Russia takes control of village in eastern Ukraine, reports say

  • Russia's Defence Ministry has said that its forces had taken control of the village of Zhelanne Druhe in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, the Russian state-run TASS news agency reported.

• Ukraine downs a Russian warplane

  • Ukrainian forces have have shot down a Russian fighter plane in Donetsk, local officials said.

• Russian prosecutor seeks 7-year sentence for US man over mercenary charges, IFX reports

  • A Russian prosecutor has called for a seven-year prison sentence for a 72-year-old American man who Russia accuses of working as a mercenary for Ukraine, Interfax news agency reported.

Russia launched an air attack on Kyiv early today, Ukraine’s military claimed on the Telegram messaging app. Their air defence units were actively working to repel the assault, it said.

An employee at a Russian-controlled nuclear power plant in Ukraine has been killed in a car bomb attack.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, said the employee, Andrei Korotkiy, had died after a bomb planted under his car went off near his house in the city of Enerhodar, where the Zaporizhzhia plant is located.

Korotkiy worked in the plant’s security department, the Committee said. A criminal case has been opened into his death.

Ukrainian military intelligence published a video of his car exploding and in a statement branded Korotkiy a “war criminal” and collaborator, accusing him of repressing Ukrainians and of handing Russia a list of the plant’s employees and then pointing out people with pro-Ukrainian views.

“The Main Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine‘s Ministry of Defence reminds people that every war criminal will be fairly punished,” the Ukrainian agency said.

A Ukrainian aircraft fired British-French cruise missiles at Russian troops attempting to advance towards a city in Ukraine, Sky news has reported.

A Ukrainian security source shared drone footage with the broadcaster that reportedly shows strikes on Russian troops advancing towards Pokrovsk, eastern Ukraine.

“The Ukrainian Armed Forces used Storm Shadow/Scalp missiles, gifted by Western nations,” the source said.

The Independent could not confirm the assertions or the drone footage.

Ukraine will present its “victory plan” at a regular meeting of its allies at Ramstein in Germany on 12 October, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

“We will present the victory plan, clear, specific steps for a just end to the war,” he wrote.

Ukraine, which has been fending off an invasion from much larger neighbour Russia for nearly 1,000 days, has in recent months teased a plan to end the war.

The details have not been made public, but Zelenskiy presented it to US President Joe Biden, as well as both major candidates running in the country’s presidential election, when he visited Washington last month.

The US State Department spokesman said the plan contained “a number of productive steps” which the US would engage with Ukraine on.

Vladimir Putin’s offensive in eastern Ukraine is likely to culminate in the coming months, a US-based think tank has said.

“Russian forces do not have the available manpower and materiel to continue intensified offensive efforts indefinitely, however, and current Russian offensive operations in eastern Ukraine will likely culminate in the coming months, if not weeks, as Ukrainian officials and ISW have previously assessed,” the Institute for the Study of War said in an assessment.

Ukrainian forces, it said, also face serious operational challenges and constraints, which are providing Russian forces with opportunities to pursue tactically significant gains.

But the current Russian offensive, which was started in autumn last year, has not yielded operationally significant gains for Russian forces and only offered gradual tactical gains in specific sectors of the front, the ISW said.

Ukraine’s “effective defence in depth along the frontline” has caused Russia significant losses and prevent Mr Putin’s troops from making more rapid gains on the battlefield, it said.