Russia has launched 574 Shahed-type drones and 40 missiles at Ukraine overnight. Drones came from the directions of Kursk, Bryansk, Millerovo, Orel, Shatalovo, Primorsko-Akhtarsk, and Crimea. Missiles came from LIpetsk, Voronezh, Saratov, the Black Sea area and Crimea.

European leaders may impose sanctions against Russia. This will happen if Vladimir Putin refuses to participate in a trilateral meeting with the leaders of Ukraine and the US, according to The Telegraph.

US President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on other countries that buy Russian oil, in an attempt to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. But the United States and Europe themselves are still doing billions of dollars in trade with Russia.

Russian oil deliveries to the European Union through the Druzhba pipeline have resumed, days after a Ukrainian strike on the line’s infrastructure brought shipments to a halt. Officials in Slovakia and Hungary confirmed the restoration of flows this week.

The UK Government has hit eight new Russian individuals and organisations with sanctions, targeting crypto networks exploited by the Kremlin.

The Kremlin is demanding that Ukraine give up the entire Donetsk Oblast as part of any ceasefire agreement. Russia analyst Kateryna Stepanenko explains why Donetsk is so important to Ukraine and why Russia wants control of it.

The Russians do not appear to have the manpower and weaponry to keep pushing battlelines in the Donetsk region.

As negotiations over the war carry on, President Vladimir Putin is pushing hard with tactics that have evolved over three and a half years.