Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin bombards Kyiv after ‘invincible’ nuclear-capable missile test

After efforts to negotiate an end to Vladimir Putin’s war on Ukraine appeared to come to a standstill, the Trump administration made the move in a bid to “increase pressure on Russia’s energy sector” and “degrade the Kremlin’s ability to raise revenue for its war machine and support its weakened economy”.

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has warned that Britain would be in the line of fire if the Kremlin were to attack a Nato country, and said he is been “shocked” by the level of public complacency about the UK’s safety.

Referring to the Russia-linked arson attacks on UK prime minister Sir Keir Starmer’s former family home in Kentish Town, London, he told the Sunday Times of his shock.

“The problem is that no one in Britain was [taken aback] by this. I was shocked, frankly speaking,” Tusk said. “After information about it appeared in the British press, the reaction was like it was just an Arsenal-Liverpool football match. But if the Russians are ready and able to organise something like that, it means that they are ready and able to do anything.”

He added that if Moscow deployed its new hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missiles to Belarus or Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave next to Poland, it would be easily capable of unleashing a nuclear warhead in any European capital, including London, given the missiles’ range of up to 2,000 miles.

“The threat is global and universal, above all because of technology,” Tusk said. “You and we are both already under massive attack in cyberspace. In Poland they are ready to destroy the cyberinfrastructure [underpinning] our railways, our hospitals. It could be really painful. This is why you can’t live under this sweet illusion that you are too far away from them, that it’s not your war, it’s just Ukraine or Poland.”

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has said that Ukraine is concerned about the toll the war could take on its population and economy if it were to stretch on for longer than a few more years.

“I have no doubts Ukraine will survive as an independent state,” Tusk told the Sunday Times. “Now the main question is how many victims we will see. President Zelensky told me [on Thursday] that he hopes that the war will not last ten years, but that Ukraine is ready to fight for another two, three years.”

Russia’s interior ministry said on Sunday that more than 80 people had been taken to police stations for questioning after a major street fight between migrants in a residential area of Moscow and that all foreigners involved would be deported.

Russian media published videos of people fighting on the street with clubs and spades and smashing windows amid parked cars near the Prokshino residential complex, though it was not immediately clear what the fight was about.

Russia’s interior ministry said 19 people had been arrested for hooliganism, adding that those migrants with Russian citizenship may have their citizenship revoked. Other foreigners involved would be deported, the ministry said.

“Those foreign citizens involved who are not imprisoned, will be deported and banned from re-entry,” said Irina Volk, a spokeswoman for the interior ministry.

Migration, especially from the former Soviet republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus, has become a major domestic political issue in Russia.

Migration has been restricted since a deadly attack at a Moscow concert hall in 2024 which Russian authorities said was carried out by Tajiks.

About 6.3 million migrants arrived in Russia in 2024, according to interior ministry figures, with about half of the total from Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

While the domestic Russian economy is reliant on cheap labour from those republics, especially in the construction and consumer industry, there has been a backlash from many Russian citizens against what they say is such a large influx of people with little knowledge of Russian customs or culture.

Russia has faced acute labour shortages across multiple sectors since the start of the war in Ukraine, as hundreds of thousands joined the military.

The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley spoke to Russian volunteers in Ukraine’s army who have turned on Vladimir Putin: