Ukraine-Russia war latest: Moscow says foreign troops in Ukraine would be ‘targets’ in latest threat

President Donald Trump has said his latest trade deal signed with India will end the war in Ukraine as Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has agreed to stop buying Russian oil.

The US president said that he plans to lower tariff on goods from India to 18 per cent from 25 per cent in a breakthrough deal, months after Washington pressed New Delhi to cut its reliance on cheap Russian crude.

Trump said that India would also start to reduce its import taxes on US goods to zero and buy $500bn worth of American products.

“This will help END THE WAR in Ukraine, which is taking place right now, with thousands of people dying each and every week!" Trump said in a Truth Social post announcing the tariff reduction on India.

India has taken advantage of reduced Russian oil prices as much of the world has sought to isolate Moscow for its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he is sending a delegation to a new round of US-brokered talks on ending the war in Ukraine.

The talks, which were initially tabled to be held over the weekend, are now set to go ahead this week after a brief postponement, a senior Kremlin official said.

The negotiations are taking place against a backdrop of continued front-line fighting and deadly long-range attacks on rear areas.

The trilateral talks will take place on Wednesday and Thursday in Abu Dhabi, where a previous meeting was held last month, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed.

The UK has expelled a Russian diplomat in a tit-for-tat move after Moscow last month expelled a British diplomat, accusing them of being an undeclared spy.

Russia's accusations were "baseless" and the expulsion was "unprovoked and unjustified", a spokesperson for Britain's Foreign Office (FCDO) said in a statement on Monday.

"Summoning the Russian Ambassador, a senior FCDO official made it clear that the UK will not stand for intimidation of British Embassy staff and so we are taking reciprocal action today, revoking the accreditation of a Russian diplomat," the spokesperson said.

Russia and the West have repeatedly accused each other of espionage campaigns since the war erupted in Ukraine.

The FCDO spokesperson added that "any further action taken by Russia will be considered an escalation and responded to accordingly”.

At least two people have been injured in Russia’s overnight missile attack on Kyiv, officials said, confirming damage to apartment blocks and other buildings.

Kyiv mayor Vitali Klitschko said a building housing a kindergarten had been set on fire and a non-residential building hit in eastern districts.

An air raid alert remained in effect more than two hours after it had been announced.

Tymur Tkachenko, head of the city's military administration, confirmed that several apartment buildings, an education establishment and a commercial building had been damaged in districts east of the Dnipro River.

In Kyiv, Reuters witnesses reported loud explosions in the city after midnight and said both missiles and drones were being deployed.

Early visuals from the attacked parts of the Ukrainian capital showed an apartment on the upper floors of a Kyiv block ablaze.

Russian air attacks were also confirmed in other Ukrainian regions, including Kharkiv, where the regional governor said at least two were injured.

Ukraine's energy company DTEK said on Monday that Russia attacked one of its coal enterprises in the Dnipropetrovsk region for the second time in 24 hours.

The company said in a statement that administrative buildings were damaged in the strike. The attack follows the strike on Sunday in which 12 miners were killed and 16 wounded.

It comes after Mr Zelensky said there were no strikes on energy infrastructure in the past 24 hours - we’re working to clarify the timings for you.

The number of soldiers killed, injured or missing on both sides of Russia's war on Ukraine could hit two million by the spring, a report has warned.

It would mean Russia suffering the largest number of troop deaths recorded for any major power in any conflict since the Second World War.

The study by the Centre for Strategic and International Studies revealed the slow, deadly grind of the conflict, and comes before the fourth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February.

The report said Russia suffered 1.2 million casualties, including up to 325,000 troop deaths, between February 2022 and December 2025. "No major power has suffered anywhere near these numbers of casualties or fatalities in any war since World War II,” the authors said.

Our foreign news reporter Maira Butt reports:

A total of 52 per cent of Ukrainians are opposed to handing over the Donbas to Russia in exchange for security guarantees, according to a new survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS).

Around 40 per cent of Ukrainians would support the move, the survey said.

The poll showed that 52 per cent saw it as a totally unacceptable condition ot hand over the Donbas, and the 40 per cent willing to accept the condition admit it would be difficult.

A further 7 per cent were unable to make up their minds, Ukrainska Pravda reported.

Moscow has claimed its forces have taken control over the settlement of Prydorozhnie in the Zaporizhzhia region, according to state-run news agency RIA.

The Independent could not independently verify the claim.

The next round of US-brokered trilateral talks between Ukraine and Russia will take place in Abu Dhabi from February 4-5, the Kremlin said on Monday, adding that talks planned for February 1 had not happened for scheduling reasons.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia and Ukraine had so far managed to narrow their differences on some issues, but had not made similar progress when it came to what he called more complex issues.