Though the knock-on effects are unclear, some military commentators have called the strike Russia's "Pearl Harbor." Hopes for direct peace talks, which resumed Monday, remain low.

The second round of talks was even shorter than the first and didn’t address any substantive issues to ending the three-year conflict.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

Some 150 droves are transported by truck to inside Russia, where swarms of drones arose from them and went on the attack.

Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to sit down on Monday in the Turkish city of Istanbul for their second round of direct peace talks since 2022, but the two sides are still far apart on how to end the war and the fighting is stepping up.

Britain will build new attack submarines, invest billions on nuclear warheads and move towards “war-fighting readiness,” Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Monday, as he braces for a landmark report into the state of the country’s military.

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Western countries must put pressure on Russia if it turns the negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul into empty talk, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said at a press conference following the Bucharest Nine summit.