Explosions rocked Kyiv for hours overnight as it was targeted by constant waves of Russian drones. Officials said the attack damaged residential buildings, businesses, a school, a medical facility, railway lines and other civilian infrastructure in multiple districts.  Local journalists said smoke from the explosions clogged the air even in neighbourhoods far from the attacks sites. In his latest update, Kyiv’s mayor Vitali Klitschko said that 23 people are known to been injured so far, with 14 of them hospitalised.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city’s military administration, warned residents to close their windows due to dangerous levels of “combustion products” in the air. “Russia, a terrorist country, has wreaked havoc,” Tkachenko wrote on Telegram. “The Russians bring nothing but terror and murder. That is a fact.”

Donald Trump says he’s disappointed in Russian President Vladimir Putin and does not think he’ll stop the war in Ukraine.  It comes after the two leaders spoke on the phone yesterday in a conversation Trump said had resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin said the call was “frank and constructive”, with Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov claiming the two leaders were “on the same wavelength”.

He said Putin had told Trump that “Russia will continue to pursue its goals” in Ukraine and “will not back down” from its objectives there. As we’re reporting, last night Ukraine come under the heaviest Russian aerial attack of the war so far. Trump added he will speak with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, later today.

Russia hit Ukraine with what appears to be the heaviest aerial attack of the war last night, launching a combined 550 drones and missiles at the country, according to Ukraine’s air force. The previous largest attack was recorded on 29 June, when the air force said 537 drones and missiles were fired at Ukraine.

Kyiv was under an all-night attack, injuring at least 23 people, damaging railway infrastructure and sparking fires across Ukraine’s capital city, authorities said. Air raid alerts remained active for more than eight hours before eventually being called off at 5am local time (2am UK time).

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that damage was recorded in six of Kyiv’s 10 districts, and that falling drone debris had set a medical facility on fire in one. Russia also targeted other regions of Ukraine with overnight attacks. Downed drones struck property and a vehicle in the city of Poltava, its regional governor reported, injuring two people. The massive assault came hours after a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, during which Putin reaffirmed that “Russia will continue to pursue its goals” in Ukraine despite calls for a ceasefire from the West.

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Overnight, Russia launched what appears to be its biggest aerial attack of the war so far on Ukraine, with Kyiv’s air force claiming that 550 drones and missiles were fired at the country overnight.

It comes after the latest phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, in which the Kremlin says the Russian leader made his US counterpart aware that Moscow “will not back down” from its goals in Ukraine.

We’ll bring you more on that and all the latest updates from the battlefield shortly, so stay tuned.

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If you’re just checking in, here is a recap of the key developments this morning.

• Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron held a “substantial” phone call – their first in three years – to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Iran-Israel conflict;
• Russia could have the ability to pose a military threat to NATO territory within five years, Italy’s defence minister said;
• Eight people were killed in attacks on eastern Ukraine, officials said;
• Ukraine summoned the acting US envoy to Kyiv to warn the Trump administration that “any delay or procrastination” in supplying it with weapons will only benefit Russia, after the US blocked several shipments to Kyiv.

Russia could have the ability to pose a military threat to NATO territory within five years, Italy’s defence minister has said. Guido Crosetto was addressing politicians on the outcome of a NATO summit last week when the military alliance agreed to increase spending on defence and security.  “Allies shared concerns about the growing threat from Russia. “There are no signs of conversion of Russian production to civilian purposes, not even in the event of a ceasefire,” he said.

Crosetto also said Russian domestic support for the war in Ukraine was intact.  Without saying where the figures came from, he said Russia has lost more than a million soldiers, including 200,000 in the first six months of this year.  “Yet Russia managed to mobilise another 300,000 in six months without any erosion of domestic consensus,” he said.

A woman in her 70s was killed by falling debris from a destroyed Ukrainian drone in Russia’s southwestern region of Lipetsk, officials said. The debris fell on a residential building in the district surrounding the regional capital, killing the woman and injuring two more, governor Igor Artamonov said. Russian media said the Energia factory in the city of Yelets had come under attack. The site makes missile parts as well as batteries for drones and glide bombs. It was targeted multiple times by Ukrainian drones this past May.

Ukraine’s armed forces said six people have been killed and 12 wounded in the eastern Donetsk region in the past 24 hours. The governor of the nearby Poltava region has also reported that two people were killed and 11 injured there, with attacks beginning at 9am local time (7am UK time). Meanwhile, emergency crews are still assessing the damage done to buildings in Odesa, where two children were among those injured in the overnight attack (see 07.11 post).

Vladimir Putin and Emmanuel Macron have held a “substantial” phone call to discuss the war in Ukraine and the Iran-Israel conflict. Macron’s office said the call lasted two hours in what was the first such exchange between the two leaders since September 2022. A French diplomatic source said Macron spoke to Volodymyr Zelenskiy before and after the call last night to brief him on the talks, and spoke with Donald Trump about the exchange.

The Kremlin said Putin reiterated his position that any possible peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv should have a “comprehensive and long-term character” and be based on “new territorial realities”. Macron’s office said he told Putin that Ukraine alone should decide on whether to accept territorial concessions and that “emphasised France’s unwavering support” for Kyiv’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Moscow has predictably welcomed the halt on US weapons shipments to Ukraine. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said yesterday that the war would end sooner if fewer arms reached Kyiv. But the Institute for the Study of War thinktank says the aid suspension will only reinforce Vladimir Putin’s theory that Russia can win the war by making slow advances and outlasting Western support for Ukraine.  It says the latest US suspension of aid will only strengthen Moscow’s belief that time is on Russia’s side and a war of attrition will only benefit the Kremlin.