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Russian missile attack on Kyiv leads to casualties and damage, escalating conflict with Ukraine. International community monitors situation closely.

Russian missile attack in Kyiv causes casualties and damage, with air defenses intercepting all missiles but leading to fires and destruction in the city.

As the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, held his carefully stage-managed annual phone-in and press conference to answer questions from journalists and ordinary Russians, EU leaders were hosting Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels at their final meeting of the year. Unsurprisingly, the war in Ukraine loomed large at both events.

John Healey has said Britain needs to ‘make the training a better fit for what the Ukrainians need’ and left the door open to it taking place in the war-torn country

Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold his annual end-of-year press conference Thursday, almost three years into his Ukraine offensive and two days after a Kyiv-orchestrated killing of a general on the streets of Moscow.

UK says it is providing ‘battle-winning capabilities’ to Kyiv including drones and munitions

John Healey told LBC that Vladimir Putin is ‘showing signs of weakness’.

The killing of a senior Russian general in a bombing outside his apartment building in Moscow was the boldest assassination yet of a top military officer and it again brought the war in Ukraine to the streets of the capital

In today’s newsletter: Kyiv assassinated Igor Kirillov inside enemy territory, in its most audacious operation since the war began – how will Russia respond?