The hypersonic missile and drone onslaught hit the western city of Ivano-Frankivsk, in the strongest attack of the 1,243-day war, as well as Kyiv and Kharkiv.

The U.K. chaired a Ukraine Defense Contact Group meeting to discuss rapid transfer of arms including Patriot missiles, as the Britain responds to President Donald Trump's 50-day ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Western Ukraine is also a center of military logistics for funneling Western weapons to Ukraine’s Army.

Federico Borsari, a Fellow with the Transatlantic Defence and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), has told The Independent that the Russian army are likely to have bee...