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Suspected Russian drone strikes on civilian shipping in the Black Sea are piling further pressure on global food supplies, the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has warned.

The United States’s relationship with Ukraine came under extraordinary strain during the past week, as US President Donald Trump lifted some oil sanctions against Russia and was feared to have restricted Ukraine’s access to US intelligence and satellite services, hobbling its defences.

Russian strikes sparked major fires in Ukraine’s Odesa and Zaporizhzhia regions on Friday 16 October, leaving industrial premises engulfed in flames.

The US Treasury Department on Thursday extended a sanctions waiver for Russian oil giant Lukoil, allowing its service stations outside Russia to continue operating until April 2027.

The Trump-Putin deal on the purchase of Russian diesel “is a very risky choice” and “a legitimisation for Moscow while its bombs are still falling on Ukrainian cities”, Giorgia Meloni said in Rome on Wednesday, swiftly winning Kyiv’s approval and provoking a prickly response from Russia.

At least one person was killed and more than 20 others injured in a Russian attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv overnight into Wednesday.

A Russian ballistic missile hit a power plant in Kyiv on Tuesday evening, President Volodymyr Zelensky said, without Ukraine receiving advance warning from its Western allies and despite US President Donald Trump’s claim for an “energy ceasefire” in effect.

At least 25 people were injured after a Russian strike hit an educational institution in Ukraine’s Rivne on Tuesday, local authorities said.

On the morning of 11 October, the Russian army struck two blocks of flats in Sloviansk in the Donetsk region.

Russian strikes on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia killed at least eight people, including three children, on Saturday, authorities said.