The US-made Patriot air defense system is Kyiv's best tool for intercepting Russian ballistic missiles.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday he hoped that agreements reached at his summit with U.S. President Donald Trump could be a launchpad for settling the Ukraine conflict and restoring ties between Russia and the U.

Russia has said its demands from negotiations with Ukraine, which include Kyiv's troops pulling out of several regions in the east, haven't changed.

A new analysis says that even after Operation Spiderweb, Russia still launched over 70 "premier munitions" in the month of July.

President Trump said Russia's drone attacks against Ukraine Thursday were part of Russian President Vladimir Putin's negotiation strategy ahead of talks in Alaska. "He's trying to set a stage," Trump said on Air Force One on his way to meet with Putin.

The acting governor of Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia said more than a dozen people were hurt and several apartment buildings were damaged.

After two Easyjet aircraft clipped wings at Manchester Airport in the UK our eyewitness team is sourcing pictures and video of the incident and looking to interview people who were on the jets at the time.

Days before President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump were to meet in Alaska, Russian forces breached lines in a series of infiltrations in Ukraine's Donetsk. Here's a closer look at where things stand as Russia claims about 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory.