Vladimir Putin’s troops launched 93 missiles and almost 200 drones across Ukraine overnight into Friday, Mr Zelensky said, with the Ukrainian air force having to scramble prized western-supplied F-16 fighter jets to shoot down some of the projectiles. The air force said just under 90 per cent of the missiles were shot down.

Ukrainian drone strikes on southern Russia killed a 9-year-old boy and set fire to a major oil terminal, officials said Saturday, the day after Moscow launched a massive aerial attack on its neighbor that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said was one of the heaviest bombardments of the country’s energy sector in the nearly three-year war.

Russia on Friday launched a massive aerial attack against Ukraine, involving dozens of cruise missiles and drones.