Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the agreements were “a signal of how seriously Europe and the entire coalition of the willing are ready to work for real security.”

Ukraine's commander in chief said December was the first month that its drones "neutralized" roughly as many Russians as were called up.

Ukraine and the United Kingdom are set to begin producing 1,000 Octopus interceptor drones per month starting in February.

Russian drone strikes have knocked out power in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region and left over 600,000 households in Dnipropetrovsk without electricity.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SSU) has reported that it has located fragments of a Russian ballistic missile used to strike Lviv Oblast on the night of 8-9 January. Early reports suggest that the parts belong to the Oreshnik missile system.

At least three people were killed after Russia launched a major offensive on Ukraine with drones and missiles overnight into Friday, Ukrainian officials said.Russian forces struck critical infrastructure in the western city of Lviv using an unidentified ballistic missile,

Russia reportedly struck a critical infrastructure site in Ukraine’s Lviv region in the early hours of January 9, possibly using an Oreshnik ballistic missile, triggering nationwide air raid alerts and warnings from the US Embassy in Kyiv.

Russia said that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be "legitimate combat targets", after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.