Zelensky meeting King in Windsor ahead of talks with European leaders

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In Russia, Moscow Oblast’s governor says five people have been injured after an overnight drone attack on a building in the city of Krasnogorsk.

The residential building was damaged as a result of the attack and four people were taken to hospital, Andrey Vorobyov says in a post on social media.

Moscow’s Mayor Sergey Sobyanin says the Ministry of Defence’s forces shot down three drones headed to Moscow. “Emergency services are working at the crash site,” he adds.

A further four drones were intercepted over the neighbouring Kaluga Oblast, the Russian Ministry of Defence says in a separate update.

As we wait to hear from President Zelensky and the coalition of the willing, we can bring you an update from Ukraine.

Two people have been killed in Russian shelling in a district in the Ukrainian city of Kherson, the head of the city military administration says.

At least 17 others, including two teenagers, have been injured in the attack which happened in the city’s Korabelnyi district this morning, Yaroslav Shanko says in a post on social media.

One of the victims is a woman who was in a bus at the time of the attack, he adds.

kraine senses that the tide is shifting further in terms of Europe’s readiness to provide the financial and military support it needs, especially with big doubts still looming over the US position.

Already this week we’ve had news of another strike on Russian territory using British-made Storm Shadow missiles, with the targeting of a chemical plant some 200 km beyond Ukraine’s borders.

The London talks will focus on providing more long-range capabilities, with the British Prime Minister, Sir Kier Starmer, said to be ready to push European allies to do more.

Ukraine has been seeking German Taurus missiles which can hit targets up almost twice as far as the Storm Shadow, but so far Berlin has proved reluctant.

And President Volodymyr Zelensky, disappointed by Washington’s recent refusal to provide its far more powerful Tomahawk missiles, has noted that “European countries also have Tomahawks”.

The only other country known to have a significant stockpile is the UK, although there’s been no public discussion by the government about the possibility of providing them and, without American approval, it might seem unlikely.

There are risks in all of this, of course, with President Trump himself citing possible escalation as one of his reasons for saying no to giving the weapons system to Ukraine.

At his recent press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin – a man who knows that as head of a nuclear power his words are carefully parsed by the outside world – said that the consequences of using such a weapon against Russia would be “serious, if not staggering.”