Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile at Ukraine near the EU border overnight, in what Kyiv called a new threat to European security that demanded a global response. Moscow said it had fired the Oreshnik missile in response to what it has described as an attempted drone attack on one of President Vladimir Putin's residences last month,

Russian forces have launched their new hypersonic ballistic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine, striking a city just 60 miles from the Nato border of Poland.

Kyiv’s mayor Vitaliy Klitschko has now urged residents to leave the capital due to mass heating outages which left half of the residential buildings in Kyiv without heating in sub-zero temperatures.