Damage has been reported throughout the capital Kyiv - with air raid alerts sounding in most Ukrainian regions for five hours overnight. Watch back our Q&A below.
Tuesday 10 June 2025 05:55, UK
Russia has lost 998,080 soldiers in combat since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the general staff of the armed forces of Ukraine said in a statement.
Further losses include nearly 11,000 tanks, 40,000 drones and almost 30,000 artillery systems, according to the general staff.
Russian news agency Ria Novosti reports that Vladimir Putin's forces shot down 102 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory.
Three of the drones were shot down over the Moscow region, the Russian defence ministry reportedly specified.
Oleh Kiper - the governor of the broader Odesa region - says an emergency medical building and a maternity ward were targeted.
A 59-year-old man was killed in an attack on a residential area, with patients and staff safely evacuated from the hospital.
He shared footage of smashed windows on Telegram.
Underground metro stations in Kyiv were used for shelter during the Russian drone attack overnight.
Russia has launched another prolonged drone attack on Ukraine overnight. Here's the latest:
The secretary general of NATO will call for a 400% increase in funding for air and missile defences, during a speech in London today.
Mark Rutte has met with Sir Keir Starmer and John Healey, the defence secretary, this afternoon.
It comes ahead of a summit in The Hague later this month, when the UK and its NATO allies are expected to agree to pledge to spend 5% of GDP on defence and related areas.
Currently, the government is committed to spend 2.5% GDP on defence from April 2027, with a goal of increasing this to 3% over the next parliament.
Sky News understands the government will in fact increase defence spending to 3.5% of GDP within a decade to keep the US on side.
'Hope is not a strategy'
Speaking at Chatham House, Rutte will call for a "quantum leap in our collective defence".
He will say that "danger will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine ends".
The call for a 400% increase in air and missile defence will come because of how Russia "delivers terror from above".
Russia has released a video showing what it says are its soldiers being released by Ukrainian forces during the latest prisoner swap with Kyiv.
The Russian defence ministry said the soldiers were under the age of 25 and had boarded a bus at an unknown location in Belarus.
Earlier, Ukraine shared images of its own prisoners being released (see 1.02pm post),
We reported this morning on a Ukrainian drone attack that hit a Russian electronics company 800 miles into the country.
The Ukrainian military said the VNIIR-Progress factory in Cheboksary manufactures navigation equipment used in attack drones, guided aerial bombs and high-precision weapons.
The video below shows the moment of the attack, with explosions seen after a drone drops onto the building.
Vladimir Putin has approved a new naval strategy aiming to fully restore Russia's position as one of the world's leading maritime powers, according to a Kremlin aide.
Russia has the world's third most powerful navy after China and the United States, according to most public rankings, though the navy has suffered a series of high-profile losses in Ukraine.
Nikolai Patrushev, a former KGB officer who served with Putin in St Petersburg during Soviet times, said the new naval strategy had been approved by Putin in late May.
"Russia's position as one of the world's greatest maritime powers is gradually recovering," Patrushev told the Russian weekly Argumenti i Fakti newspaper.
Patrushev gave no further details about the strategy, though Russia has ramped up spending on defence and security to Cold War levels as a percentage of gross domestic product.
Volodymyr ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y says the first group of Ukrainians have returned home from captivity as part of the latest exchange with Russia.
Both Moscow and Kyiv spent the last few days accusing each other of stalling the exchange, which was agreed during direct talks in Istanbul last week.
Posting on social media, ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y said the exchange will continue in several stages in the coming days.
He added the first group returning were the wounded and seriously wounded, as well as those under 25.
"The process is quite complicated, with many sensitive details, and negotiations continue virtually every day," ZelenAG百家乐在线官网y says.
"We are doing our utmost to return everyone. We are working for this at all levels. We must bring home everyone who is in captivity. Thank you to everyone who is helping."
Earlier, Russia said it had heard "a hundred different excuses" over why the exchange had not taken place already, with Kyiv saying it had not received the full list of prisoners to be released (see 11.07am post).
