Fighter jets like the F-16 helped hold the line while Ukraine's jet interceptors suffered a critical 10-day disruption to Starshield services.

Ukrainian drones attacked a refinery in Russia's Ryazan region early Thursday, hours after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that a brief truce spurned by Moscow was over.

Russia is committing war crimes and crimes against humanity by intentionally attacking civilian infrastructure – including vital energy systems – in Ukraine, an independent UN investigations panel said on Monday.

Russia launched 126 drones against Ukraine overnight, including 61 jet-powered Shaheds. Ukraine's air defences recorded strikes at 14 locations, while debris from downed drones fell at five others.

A UN-backed inquiry found Russia deliberately attacked Ukraine's energy infrastructure and coerced foreign men into military service. The findings classify the strikes as international crimes and highlight deceptive recruitment across 29 countries.

US President Donald Trump has excoriated Ukraine’s leader after the country launched one of its biggest drone attacks on Russia this year, hitting a key oil terminal in defiance of his demand it stop hitting Russian energy infrastructure.

Russia's FSB security ⁠service ⁠has thwarted a planned ⁠Ukrainian drone attack from inside Russia on ​a key element of Moscow's air defence system and on an electricity facility, ‌the FSB said on ‌Monday,

Both Putin and Zelenskyy said Thursday they were open for peace negotiations, even as they continued strikes overnight.