A leaked recording reveals Donald Trump claimed he had warned Vladimir Putin over any attack on Ukraine. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian security service colonel has been killed in Kyiv. Follow the latest below.
Thursday 10 July 2025 19:21, UK
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Before we return, here’s a rundown of what’s happened in the last 24 hours…
Another night of Russian attacks
Russia’s overnight drone and missile attacks across Ukraine have grown in scale and intensity throughout 2025.
Last night was no different, with Ukraine’s air force saying the assault by Russia had involved around 400 drones and 18 missiles, primarily targeting the capital.
Officials say damage was reported in six out of the Kyiv’s 10 districts, with two people dying and dozens more injured.
Moscow said its forces successfully carried out strikes on military-industrial facilities in the city.
Zelenskyy attends recovery conference
Meanwhile, in Rome, Volodymyr Zelenskyy attended the fourth Ukraine Recovery Conference, hosted by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
There, Ukraine’s allies pledged more than £8.6bn to help rebuild the country. Zelenskyy said there were around 200 agreements that were ready to be signed.
US-Russia ‘exchange new ideas’ for peace talks
Over in Malaysia, at an economic conference, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio held talks with Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.
The discussions, which Rubio said were “frank” and “important”, came after US President Donald Trump said he was disappointed with Russian leader Vladimir Putin for stringing him along over peace efforts.
Rubio said that Russia had offered a “new and a different approach” during talks today, without expanding on what it included.
“I wouldn’t characterise it as something that guarantees peace, but it’s a concept I will take back to the president today,” he said.
In other news…
A bit more to bring you now.
We’ve been speaking to former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniv Yatsenyuk just now.
He told presenter Mark Austin that his country was in need of more missiles.
Watch their full chat here:
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has been speaking in Rome at the Ukraine Recovery Conference.
The Ukrainian leader spoke earlier at the event, where he thanked allies for pledging over €10bn (£8.6bn) to help rebuild Ukraine.
He then dialled in for a coalition of the willing meeting that featured Italy’s Giorgia Meloni, Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron.
Speaking this evening, he thanked Lt Gen Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, and US senators Lindsey Graham and Richard Blumenthal, for their attendance.
Zelenskyy also welcomed recent signs from Trump of support for Ukraine.
“His signals are very, very important, and we count on it,” he said.
“And I’m sure that in the future, we will develop the coalition of the willing together.”
He added: “We in Ukraine are very much grateful to the Congress of the United States and President Trump for the support and readiness to strengthen pressure on Russia for the sake of peace.
“This is what’s needed.”
Russia has ramped up the scale of its aerial attacks on Ukraine in the past few months, breaking its record for the most number of missiles and drones launched in one night several times.
In fact, all of Russia’s largest drone and missile attacks on Ukraine have come since the beginning of June. Here they are in order:
A Russian spy from Kyiv has been jailed for 15 year after he helped “correct” Moscow’s strikes on Ukraine.
According to Ukraine’s security service (SBU), the lawyer aided attacks on Ukraine’s defence and energy facilities, building up a “network” of agents.
The agents were said to have collected information about “officials of international organisations and volunteers in Kyiv, Dnipro, and Odesa.”
The man was arrested in January of this year, along with his accomplices. During searches, 15 mobile phones were found through which the SBU said the man communicated with his Russian handlers.
The coalition of the willing is set for a permanent headquarters in Paris, with plans in place for a future coordination cell in Kyiv.
As a reminder, the coalition is a group of 31 nations which have pledged strengthened support for Ukraine against Russian aggression.
The group agreed today it will create a multinational operational headquarters in Paris, led by the UK and France, to oversee all tactical and operational arrangements.
The headquarters, which will rotate to London after the first 12 months, will allow partners to contribute forces flexibly and deploy military teams for different operational strands of work.
When the force deploys, a co-ordination cell, headed up by a UK two-star military officer, will also be set up in Kyiv.
Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has warned that no Russia-linked companies should profit from the rebuild of Ukraine.
“We want to work with Ukraine to ensure that entities which have contributed to financing the Russian war machine do not benefit from the reconstruction,” she told the Ukraine Recovery Conference.
More than £8.6bn has been pledged so far today to help rebuild Ukraine.
Here are some of the latest pictures from Kyiv.
Emergency services set about repairing the damage caused by Russian strikes, as people emerged from shelters.
Russian air defences downed three Ukrainian drones bound for Moscow earlier today, the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, says.
The Russian defence ministry also said 14 drones had been shot down over the Bryansk region and a further eight over the Belgorod region between 3pm and 4pm local time (12pm to 1pm UK time).
Separately, Russia’s aviation authority Rosaviatsia said it had temporarily halted all flights in and out of the airport in Kaluga, a city some 200 km (125 miles) southwest of Moscow.
Sky News could not independently verify the battlefield reports.
The European Commission has dismissed an interpreter hired by the EU over concerns of a potential security breach
The translator was a French-Ukrainian freelancer brought in to help leaders communicate with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to France’s Le Monde.
But they were dismissed after they were caught taking notes during a sensitive session – this is strictly prohibited.
The commission told POLITICO that it took action over “an incident related to note-taking” during a European Council meeting that Zelenskyy attended in December last year.
“The notes were immediately confiscated,” a spokesperson told POLTICO.
The investigation has now been handed over to Belgian authorities.
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