Facing a battlefield stalemate in Ukraine and growing war fatigue among Russians, President Vladimir Putin appears ready to try to change the narrative around the conflict. He looks likely to sharply escalate the Russian aerial attacks on the Ukrainian capital in the hope it will shore up his sagging domestic approval ratings and persuade an increasingly pessimistic audience at home that Moscow is winning the war,

Ukraine has hit a Russian port city in a "massive attack," according to a local official. It comes after Romania said a Russian drone hit a block of flats in the country, which it called a "grave escalation".