Russia-Ukraine war LIVE updates | Moscow's overnight attack batters Zaporizhzhia; Dnipro death toll rises

The mayor of Ukraine's capital Kyiv called for more support, including anti-rocket systems to protect from Russian missile strikes, as he arrived for the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos on Monday.

Vitali Klitschko acknowledged Western support for his country but said it was “not enough” and warned "discussions take too long."

He said an attack at the weekend on a Dnipro apartment building destroyed by a Russian missile in which at least 40 people died amounted to "terrorism" and "genocide."
 

Speaking in the House of Commons, Wallace said Russia has “singularly failed to break the will of the Ukrainian people” and had “managed to lose significant numbers of generals and commanding officers”.

"We now would expect a trend back towards a Russian offensive, no matter how much loss of life accompanies it," he said.

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock called on Monday for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders over the invasion of Ukraine.

In a speech in The Hague, Baerbock called for a "new format" of court to "bring Russian leaders to justice", possibly using Ukrainian law but based abroad with international judges.

President Vladimir Putin on Monday slammed Kyiv's "destructive" policies and growing Western arms supplies to Ukraine in a phone call with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Kremlin said.

"Vladimir Putin drew attention to the destructive line of the Kyiv regime, which has bet on the intensification of hostilities with the support of Western sponsors, who are ramping up the supplies of weapons and military equipment," the Kremlin said after the phone talks.

Dozens are still missing, Gennadiy Korban wrote on Telegram. 75 people were wounded in the strike, including 14 children, he said.

The victims from the attack included a 15-year-old girl, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said in his latest nightly address.

The Russian-installed governor of Sevastopol in Crimea said on Monday that air defences had downed 10 drones over the city in what he called a "failed Ukrainian attack", reports Reuters news agency.

Sevastopol, which is on the Crimean peninsula that Russia annexed in 2014, has come under repeated air attack since Russia invaded Ukraine last February. Russian officials have blamed the attacks on Ukraine.

Governor Mikhail Razvozhayev said all the drones were downed over the sea, with no damage to any infrastructure.

"Air defence and the Black Sea Fleet shot down 10 out of 10 Ukrainian drones over the sea," he said in a post on his Telegram channel.
 

Tass news agency has reported that Russia has produced the first nuclear warheads for the self-powered Poseidon super torpedoes.

They are being developed for deployment on the Belgorod nuclear submarine, TASS reported on Monday, citing an defence source.

Poseidon has beend escribed both by US and Russian officials as a new category of retaliatory weapon which is capable of triggering radioactive ocean swells to render coastal cities uninhabitable.

"The first Poseidon ammunition loads have been manufactured, and the Belgorod submarine will receive them in the near future," TASS, a state news agency, quoted the source as saying.
 

Russia has issued a warning that Britain's plans to send tanks to Ukraine “will burn”, warning the west that supplying a new round of more advanced weapons to Ukraine would not change the course of the war.

“They are using [Ukraine] as a tool to achieve their anti-Russian goals,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said when asked about the British tanks, Reuters reports.

“These tanks are burning and will burn just like the rest,” Peskov said.

Ukraine’s south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia came under fresh attack overnight from the Russian forces, injuring civilians and destroying residential infrastructure, according to regional officials. 

Zaporizhzhia state administration chief Oleksandr Starukh said that Russia launched a rocket attack on the regional centre in a Telegram post at about 1 am local time

"The enemy launched a rocket attack on the regional centre and suburbs. There is destruction of civil, residential and industrial infrastructure. Information was received about several lightly wounded. All relevant services are on site.”