The Pentagon has been quietly blocking Ukraine from using U.S.-made long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (Atacms) to strike targets inside Russia, limiting Kyiv's ability to employ these weapons in its defense against Moscow's invasion,

Ukraine sparingly uses Western-made missiles, including UK Storm Shadow missiles, to strike inside Russia, but the weapons are vital in their defence as they continue to face Russian strikes.

Russian forces have captured two new villages along the 1000-km-long battle line in the Donetsk region in the east of Ukraine, said the Russian Ministry of Defence. Russian forces are moving along the battle line in a synchronised and coordinated manner to capture as much land as possible in order to use it as leverage in the upcoming trilateral talks between Trump,