European leaders vowed to work in coordination to ratchet up the pressure on Russia as the so-called “coalition of the willing” met in London to discuss strategies to end the war in Ukraine.

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the directors at Moscow's Museum of Victory.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to meet European leaders in London on Friday. They have pledged military support to protect Ukraine from future Russian aggression if a ceasefire occurs.

Ukraine has never used American weapons to strike distant targets on Russian territory. Various long-range weapons have been used in the temporarily occupied territory of Crimea and in the east of the country.

The claim contradicts Moscow's actual negotiating stance, as Russia continues to reject any compromise and insists on its maximalist demands.

A senior Ukrainian commander in the 14th Deep Strike Regiment, one of the units leading the country’s drone campaign, said its unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) were flying distances of up to 2000 km (1250 miles) as they seek to find holes in Russian air defences.

Waves of missiles and drones throughout the night targeted at least eight Ukrainian cities, as well as a village in the Kyiv region.

A Ukrainian minister told Newsweek Vladimir Putin wanted to destroy critical infrastructure to make Ukraine "more submissive."