Russia flexes nuclear muscle, Ukraine eyes Gripens amid Trump-Putin summit delay

A senior Ukrainian official told Reuters that Kyiv must have the freedom to choose how to spend the funds, and should not be limited to buying arms from European countries.

Ukraine's military said late on Tuesday that it used Franco-British Storm Shadow air-launched missiles to strike a chemical plant in southern Russia’s Bryansk region.

Ukrainian officials said on Wednesday that Russian attacks had killed six people, including two children, in Kyiv and the nearby region, and forced power outages nationwide.

Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha appealed to Kyiv’s international partners to mobilise "additional energy support" to prevent a humanitarian crisis as winter approaches.

(Reporting by Dmitry Antonov in Moscow, Pavel Polityuk in Kyiv, Simon Johnson in Linkoping, Sweden, Tom Balmforth in London, Steve Holland in Washington and Reuters bureaux in Moscow, Kyiv and Stockholm; Writing by Mark Trevelyan; Editing by Ros Russell and Mark Heinrich)