Thanks for following our live updates today, we’re pausing our coverage for now.<\/p>\n
It’s been a busy day of updates after Russia fired a hypersonic Oreshnik missile at Ukraine’s western Lviv region.<\/p>\n
The defence ministry said the strike was a \u200dresponse to an attempted Ukrainian drone attack on one of Vladimir Putin’s residences \u2060at the end \u200cof last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kyiv \u200dsaid Moscow’s claims that it tried to attack the residence, in the Russian region of \u200bNovgorod, are “a lie.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s foreign minister said the strike close to the EU and NATO border is a “grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community”.<\/p>\n
Watch: Oreshnik missile is an ‘unpredictable beast’<\/p>\n
Elsewhere, at least four people were killed and 22 are injured in Kyiv after 36 missiles and more than 240 drones were fired from Russia overnight.<\/p>\n
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a building of the Qatari embassy was also damaged by a Russian drone.<\/p>\n
In response, Qatar expressed its regret and confirmed no injuries have been recorded.<\/p>\n
Zelenskyy has also been meeting UK Defence Secretary John Healey in Kyiv today, with talks taking place over how a British contingent could be deployed to operate alongside French forces “if diplomacy works to end the war”.<\/p>\n
Healey told reporters that Russia’s attack was “brutal” and “cynical” and urged Donald Trump to bring both sides together to “talk about the future of peace”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thanks for following our live updates today, we’re pausing our coverage for now. It’s been a busy day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":399289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":["post-399288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/399289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}