Ukraine’s drone strike deep inside Russian territory left Kremlin officials angry and alarmed over the sudden vulnerability of a nuclear-capable air fleet far from the battlefield, according to people close to senior officials in Moscow.

The Russian delegation at the Istanbul talks presented its demands for a ceasefire, which the Ukrainians will study over the next seven days

Kyiv is hoping that being able to hit targets inside Russia will give it the strategic edge it has lacked until now.

Two successive nighttime Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv came amid a major prisoner exchange between the two countries.

Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Kyiv on Thursday for a two-day visit after discussing peace efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine in Moscow earlier this week, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday.

Among Russia's key demands is the official recognition of Russia's annexation of Crimea, as well as the annexation of Ukraine's Kherson, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Luhansk oblasts, none of which Moscow controls in full.

Kyiv’s drones hit Putin’s bombers and cruise missile carriers deep inside Russian territory - Zelensky says major drone attack on Russian airfields 'will go in history books'

Ukraine war latest: Russia accuses Kyiv of 'terrorist attack' The Ukrainian operation - which used small drones smuggled into Russia, hidden in mobile sheds and launched off the back of trucks - also demonstrated how technology and imagination have ...