At Monday’s meeting, Healey was expected to urge Ukraine’s Western partners to launch a coincidental “50-day drive” to get Kyiv the weapons it needs to fight Russia’s bigger army and force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table, the U.K. government said in a statement.

Russian aviation faced big delays due to the threat posed by Ukrainian drones, while Moscow's attacks on Ukraine killed at least one person.

"There is our draft memorandum, there is a draft memorandum that has been handed over by the Ukrainian side. There is to be an exchange of views and talks on these two drafts, which are diametrically opposed so far,

A Russian airborne assault on the Ukrainian capital killed at least one person and injured 9 while Ukraine hit back, sending drones deep into Russian territory.

This figure is also a marked increase from the assessment on June 9 of Ukraine's Main Military Intelligence Directorate (GUR) that Russia plans to increase production capacity to 190 drones per day, by the end of 2025.

Moscow wants to be able to deploy 2,000 drones in a single strike, according to the assessment of a senior German military official.

Russian air defenses shot down 15 Ukrainian drones headed toward Moscow early Monday morning, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin.

"The suitcase was found to contain an American Colt Commander, .45 caliber with three empty magazines," Russian officials said.

Organizers in Italy say a concert by Russian conductor Valery Gergiev has been canceled after protests against giving the stage to a conductor who hasn't condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Floodwaters overtook some areas of Moscow for a second time in a week on Monday after intense thunderstorms and heavy rain swept across the Russian capital. By 9 a.m., a weather station at the city’s VDNKh park had recorded 33% of Moscow’s average monthly rainfall,