Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia had sent over 450 drones and 30 missiles into Ukraine overnight.

A large warehouse storing medicines in the city of Dnipro was destroyed in a Russian air strike on 6 December. As a result, about $110m worth of medicines were destroyed - estimated at up to 30% of Ukraine's monthly supply.

In the early months of the invasion, in 2022, the Russians tried to suffocate Ukraine’s economy by imposing a naval blockade of its ports. About 20 million tons of grain got stuck in the port city of Odesa, causing global food prices to spike and raising fears of famine in parts of Africa and the Middle East that rely on supplies from Ukraine.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A senior Kremlin official said Friday that Russian police and National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas and oversee the industry-rich region, even if a peace settlement ends Russia’s nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

Russia's ​Ministry of ‌Defence said on ​Friday that air defence ‍systems had destroyed ​90 Ukrainian ​drones ⁠over the country and the Black Sea overnight. In the city of Tver, 181 ‌kilometres (112 miles) northwest of Moscow,

Russia is facing major difficulties in replenishing its stockpiles of anti-aircraft missiles due to Ukraine’s ongoing use of large-scale drone attacks. These drones target military and energy infrastructure,