At least 600,000 people in Ukraine are without electricity after deadly overnight Russian missile and drone strikes, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

For the second night, Ukraine received no early warning from its partners that an attack was imminent, he added.

At least six people were killed in the strikes, and 21 injured, and officials said that access to the Starlink communications system was restricted overnight.

The attacks come after US President Donald Trump’s claim on Sunday that an “energy ceasefire” was in place between Russia and Ukraine.

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Has the US reduced the amount of intelligence it shares with Ukraine? That’s the accusation from President Zelensky, after a second consecutive night of Russian missile strikes – that hit targets in Ukraine without any advance warning from allied-intelligence.

At the same time, Ukraine has accused Elon Musk’s Starlink of imposing restrictions on the speed at which some of Ukraine’s weapons can travel and stay connected to the Starlink internet network. It’s caused disruption Ukraine’s ‘battlefield missions’, according to the government.

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Ukraine has stabilised the frontline as Russian forces have suffered too many losses to advance, Oleksandr Syrskyi, Kyiv’s former commander-in-chief has claimed in an exclusive interview with the BBC.

General Syrskyi was in charge of the Ukrainian army until his tense relations with the defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov forced President Zelensky to dismiss them both last summer.

In his first interview since his sacking, general Syrskyi told the BBC’s Abdujalil Abdurasulov how in his view Ukraine is containing more powerful Russian forces, why military success is key to reach a peace settlement and how new technologies are transforming the war.

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Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia hit a power plant in Ukraine “immediately after” US President Donald Trump announced what he called an energy ceasefire.

Zelensky said Ukraine is willing to back an energy truce if Moscow does as well, adding that it could “become a major step toward ending the war.”

So far, the Kremlin has not commented on the idea, which could see both sides pausing attacks on each other’s energy facilities.

Trump has been urging Ukraine to stop strikes on Russian oil infrastructure so Moscow can fulfil a recently struck deal to release diesel to the US and the global market.

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Deep inside an underground bunker in eastern Ukraine, commanders monitor the battlefield through a live video feed as a Ukrainian drone intercepts a Russian surveillance drone.

The footage shows the Ukrainian drone hovering above its target, before dropping a net and dragging it from the sky.

The interception is part of Operation Vivaldi, a Ukrainian counter-offensive that Kyiv says has recaptured 277 sq km (106 square miles) of territory in the eastern Donbas region in recent months.

But Ukraine says new restrictions on Starshield, the military version of Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite network, are threatening its drone operations.

The technology has played a key role in helping Ukrainian forces detect and strike Russian targets. Dan Johnson reports from the bunker.

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