Ukraine-Russia war latest: More drones spotted in Denmark over military sites as Nato vows to ramp up vigilance

In an address from Kyiv, the Ukrainian leader insisted that European seas must be closed to Russia.

He said that “intelligence now indicates that the Russians are using tankers to launch and operate drones against European countries.”

Zelensky continued: “This is yet more evidence why the Baltic Sea and other seas must be closed to Russian tankers – at the very least to the shadow fleet.”

A 12-year-old girl was among four killed and at least 70 injured after a 12-hour Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine, with the capital Kyiv suffering the heaviest assault.

The air assault, which took place overnight and into Sunday, was the first major bombardment since a similar attack killed at least 21 people last month.

News of the destruction came as Denmark’s defence ministry said that it had observed drones at several of its armed forces’ locations overnight for a second consecutive day.

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The United States is considering Ukraine’s request to obtain long-range Tomahawk missiles for its effort to push back against Russia, vice president JD Vance said on Sunday.

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has asked the United States to sell Tomahawks to European nations that would send them to Ukraine.

Mr Vance said on Fox News on Sunday that US president Donald Trump would make the “final determination” on whether to allow the deal.

“We’re certainly looking at a number of requests from the Europeans,” Mr Vance said.

Tomahawk missiles have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles), and would be a powerful asset in Ukraine’s arsenal as it fights back against regular barrages of Russian missile and drone attacks.

Such a weapons delivery would almost certainly be seen by Russia as an escalation in its war in Ukraine.

UK’s foreign secretary Yvette Cooper has said she is “appalled” by Russia’s attack on Ukraine overnight, which involved nearly 600 drones.

She added in a statement on X: “As Ukraine works for peace, Russia continues to intensify its attacks. The UK will always stand with Ukraine, and our allies, against Putin’s aggression”.

Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant entered its fifth day running on emergency generators on Saturday, prompting mounting safety concerns.

External power to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, Europe’s largest, has been cut for more than four days in a record outage at the six-reactor facility on the front line of the war, Greenpeace Ukraine warned.

Donald Trump has claimed that Ukraine could win back all of the land captured by Russia since the beginning of its invasion in February 2022, in a major shift in his position on the war.

The US president said in a Truth Social post that Kyiv’s military could win “all of Ukraine back in its original form”, adding that Putin and Russia are in “BIG economic trouble”.

Military experts say Ukraine could push Russia back towards the border as it stood in 2022, and force Vladimir Putin to seek a peace deal – but only in the presence of a strict, and unlikely, set of conditions.

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Moldovans began voting on Sunday for a parliamentary election poised to have a major impact on the government’s quest to join the European Union, as a popular pro-Russian group seeks to steer the small nation away from closer ties with the bloc, Dan Peleschuk writes.

Moldova is already buffeted by war in neighbouring Ukraine and allegations of Russian interference in politics and religion.

To a government aspiring to join the EU, control of parliament is vital for the long-term legislative efforts required.

Denmark ordered a ban on Sunday on civil drone flights, after drones were observed at several military facilities overnight, following a week in which drone sorties caused the temporary closures of several Danish airports.

The Danish military said in a statement it had deployed “several capacities” in response to the overnight sightings at bases, declining further comment on the nature of its response.

Drone sorties earlier this week forced Denmark to shut airports, including a nearly four-hour closure of Copenhagen Airport on Monday.

Denmark has called the drones part of a “hybrid attack”. It has stopped short of saying definitively who it believes is responsible, but Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has suggested it could be Moscow, calling Russia the primary “country that poses a threat to European security”. The Kremlin denies blame.

Under the ban, civilian drones will be barred from Danish airspace from Monday through Friday of the coming week, when Denmark, which holds the rotating presidency of the EU for the second half of this year, will be hosting European leaders.

Russia’s defence ministry has said that Moscow carried out a massive strike on Ukraine, hitting military airfields and other facilities.

“Last night, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation launched a massive strike with high-precision long-range air, sea-based weapons and unmanned aerial vehicles against enterprises of the military-industrial complex of Ukraine used in the interests of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, as well as the infrastructure of military airfields,” the ministry said in a statement on Sunday morning.

Ukraine said at least four people were killed and dozens were injured in one of the most sustained Russian attacks on the country’s capital.