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"Open ​Starlink for Ukraine. You did open it when you were responding to Iran," Zelenskyy said.

Berlin's foreign intelligence chief said the country is at risk of entering a "violent conflict with Russia.

The country said it is ready to use nuclear weapons against any attempt to cut off Kaliningrad, an enclave bordering the Baltic Sea.

Moscow's armed forces will get close to 2.5 million, with more than 1.5 million active servicemen.

The Ukrainian President also asked for a "winter package of Patriot missiles" and licenses to produce them in the country.

Russia also reduced its oil output forecast to a 17-year-low earlier this year, according to another report.

Voting extended into Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine as Moscow faced its largest drone attack of the war on the final day of balloting.

All anti-war parties have been barred from standing, but Russian President Vladimir Putin nevertheless sees the vote as an important indicator of public support for Russia's "Special Military Operation".

However, Russia has resumed intense strikes against Ukraine following visits from U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv.

At least two people were killed on Tuesday as attacks against Ukraine resumed following the departure of top U.S. officials.

The Russian leader has reiterated the statements he has made since the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine in 2022. There is no hint of a probability of a compromise formula emerging from Moscow, if these statements alone are to go by.

Washington has been pushing to end the conflict, which is now in its fifth year. The conflict lost momentum after the US attention veered to its conflict with Iran in the Middle East, which began late in February.

Russia will shut down cultural centers belonging to Germany's Goethe-Institut in different cities in the country.

"Russian airspace is becoming completely unsafe," Zelenskyy said.

Different reports and assessments have determined that Putin has decided to escalate the war as Moscow fails to make meaningful gains.

"There is no problem," Trump said about the possibility.

Authorities will be able to take control if private owners fail to protect the infrastructure.

Kyiv launched over 600 drones against the Russian capital, its mayor said.

Ukraine is of the view that Russia's vast energy reservoirs are bankrolling its appetite for war and hence it is unleashing the coordinated strikes on these facilities across Russia. These strikes are aimed at bringing the impact of the war and causing misery to the Russian public, which has also been bearing the economic and military consequences of the conflict.

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened to retaliate for the seizure of commercial vessels from Western countries, calling such actions "piracy."

Lithuania, a NATO country, said it is taking measures to protect critical infrastructure against a false flag attack from Russia.