Days after operation Spiderweb, Russia launched 407 drones and 45 missiles at the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, i n the early hours of Friday, June 6th. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow’s attack injured 80, killed six, and targeted “almost all” of Ukraine, listing nine regions, from Lviv in the west to Sumy in the northeast.

Vladimir Putin discussed the war in Ukraine with Pope Leo in a telephone call on Wednesday, with the Kremlin claiming the Russian president wanted peace through diplomacy.

The Kremlin said on Friday the Ukraine war was "existential" for Russia, after it launched a wave of retaliatory drone and missile strikes that killed at least four people.